Tips for Success in the Entertainment Industry
Tip #5 - Come from a famous family
The Baldwins, The Wayans, The Arquettes and Nicolas Cage. What do they all have in common? They’re famous families. I know what you’re saying. “Nicolas Cage doesn’t have a famous last name. Who the fuck are the Cages?” Nicolas Cage does indeed come from a very famous family. He’s part of the Coppola dynasty, but decided to use a stage name in an attempt to trick us all into thinking he was a self-made movie star. It’s people like him that give the regular non-famous family offspring false hope. Don’t be fooled. If it wasn’t for his famous family Nicholas Cage would simply be making horrible life choices instead of horrible movie choices.
Coming from a famous family leads to all sorts of advantages and opportunities. Rather then spending years and years building relationships through aggressive networking and regrettable sexual encounters, when you come from a famous family all you need to do is ask mommy or daddy to make a phone call and next thing you know you’ll be dancing like a monkey for Hollywood’s biggest directors or perhaps personally handing your demo to P. Diddy.
If you weren’t born into a famous family there is still hope. You can always marry someone famous. Or perhaps rent out a pool house and run errands for a famous person. The key is being creative about how you connect yourself to famous people. Being friends with them isn’t always enough. You want to leverage the relationship with embarrassing photos or voicemail messages.
Some people will try and convince you talent is the most important weapon of success. Don’t listen. The nuclear bomb is nepotism.
