Reddit<\/a> to share their thoughts. One user blasted, “So many struggling actors\/actresses out there, but nepo babies get to move to the front of the line.”<\/p>\n“It\u2019s just nepo babies all the way down. Paltrow\u2019s a nepo herself. I just don\u2019t watch movies made after 2010 anymore,” someone else fumed.<\/p>\n
A third critic simply commented, “Cringe,” prompting a fourth to blast, “I mean, everyone already hates her. She’s just wasting her time with this.”<\/p>\n
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Apple was blasted as a ‘nepo-baby’ by fans (Image: Getty)<\/p>\n
While both character and plot details of the Warner Bros. movie have been kept under wraps for now, it has been characterized as a semi-autobiographical film for the acclaimed It’s Complicated director, who, in a 2023 Instagram post, said it would be a film about “a group of people making a film and the magic and mystery of what we do.”<\/p>\n
Other cast members include Hollywood legends like Pen\u00e9lope Cruz and Kieran Culkin, who appeared as a nine-year-old in Nancy and her late ex-husband Charles Shyer’s 1991 film Father of the Bride.<\/p>\n
The cast also includes Erin Doherty, Owen Wilson and Jude Law, who also worked with the filmmaker in the iconic Christmas film, The Holiday.<\/p>\n
Nancy is directing from her own script and producing the film, slated for a Christmas Day 2027 release date, alongside Ilona Herzberg, with Diana Pokorny and Paula Case executive producing.<\/p>\n
What is a Nepo-baby?<\/p>\n
A “nepo baby,” which is short for nepotism baby, is a term for a person, particularly in the entertainment, fashion, or media industries, who has achieved success in a career closely related to that of their famous or highly influential parents.<\/p>\n
Why was Apple Martin called a mean girl?<\/p>\n
Apple was labeled a “mean girl” by internet critics for two main reasons. After her appearance at Le Bal des D\u00e9butantes in Paris, a viral TikTok showed Apple enthusiastically jumping in front of another debutante, French Countess Ali\u00e9nor Loppin de Montmort, to pose for the cameras.<\/p>\n
Some viewers interpreted this as entitled behavior and dubbed her a “mean girl” or “Regina George,” though the Countess quickly came to her defense, stating Apple was incredibly kind.<\/p>\n
Then there were some unearthed school rumors which also began circulating, claiming she was expelled from school for bullying. Apple publicly addressed these, stating the bullying narrative is “completely false.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Apple Martin is the daughter of Gwyneth Paltrow and Chris Martin (Image: Getty) It looks like Gwyneth Paltrow’s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":679693,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[103766,249661,49,48,185256,75,46730,1542,249660,19735,29934,21659],"class_list":["post-679692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-apple-martin","tag-apple-martin-age","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-celebrity-news-section","tag-entertainment","tag-entertainment-section","tag-gwyneth-paltrow","tag-gwyneth-paltrow-daughter","tag-movies-section","tag-nancy-meyers","tag-nepotism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=679692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679692\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/679693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=679692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=679692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=679692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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