A “nepo baby,” short for “nepotism baby,” is a popular, if condescending, term that refers to the children of celebrities who are now famous in part because of their parents’ fame. The topic reached a boiling point in late December when New York Magazine declared 2022 “Year of the Baby Nepo.”
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I’m a selfish actor and I’m very competitive and I know a good role when I see one and I don’t think anyone else was considered for the role of Otto in ‘A Man Called Otto’ because I selfishly said ‘I know exactly what I want to do here, I know exactly how to be not only irascible, but always right.” If there’s anyone in this movie who’s right 100 percent of the time in the movie, it’s Otto, and I love playing the guy who has always right.”\n\nWhen you meet Otto, he walks around his neighborhood punishing all the residents. for various reasons, from dogs frolicking on the front lawn to mail vans sitting on the street.\n\nAfter playing so many nice guy roles, was it liberating for Hanks to be rude?\n\ “Well, you’re free to grumble. under your breath while no one can really hear it,” Hanks said, adding, “What’s freeing is to be able to use body language that says the same thing, you know. Like ugh, you know, this. A frustrated sigh is almost as good as one of those yoga breaths, you know where you’re supposed to wipe it all out.”\n\nThe film not only stars Hanks and has a song by his wife, but also by his son Truman . plays the younger version of Otto in flashbacks during the movie.\n\nHanks said “Look. This is a family business. This is what we do forever. This is what all our children grew up with. We have four children, they are all very creative, they are all involved in some brand of storytelling and if we were a plumbing supply business or running the flower shop down the street, the whole family would be on time at some point . even if it was just inventory at the end of the year.”\n\nIn the film, Otto’s behavior toward his neighbors is finally brought under control when a Latino family moves in across the street and begins to show kindness to the old man. \n\nTo make sure there were distinct differences between ‘A Man Called Otto’ and ‘A Man Called Ove,’ Hanks and his wife brought in the original film’s producer, Fredrik Wikstrom.\n\n”There are huge differences . between the social structure of Sweden and the social structure of the United States of America, and that actually gave us more things to look at,” Hanks said.\n\nHe added, “In the United States , for a Mexican family to move across the street has very specific connotations, different than it would even in 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