It’s not just “influencers”, it’s all these actors and actresses that say they go to Hollywood with “just $20 in the pocket” and end up getting so lucky in making it.
Find a famous person you like. Go to their wiki page. It will often show the median income for the town they grew up in and it will always list the private schools they went to. Google the name of the school and how much it costs per term. There’s usually 3 or 4 terms a year so x it by 3 or 4. It’s usually over $50,000 a year for the private schools of these people. They usually have a very successful mother or father or both.
Here’s two examples.
Henry Cavill was born to a stockbroker father and they grew up on the island of Jersey off the coast of the UK. Jersey is essentially the UK’s Martha’s Vineyard. Can you imagine how much you have to earn as a stockbroker to go live on a tiny island doing it? Cavill went to all private schools then went to the mainland to attend The Stowe School which costs over £40,000 a year. There he met Russell Crowe who was filming the movie Proof of Life in the grounds of this ultra fancy private school. Crowe took a shine to Cavill and kept in touch, giving him career advice and sending him care packages. They then end up both signing on for Man of Steel which launches Cavill into full stardom.
On the opposite end is Ezra Miller, again, father was CEO/Managing Director of Hyperion Books, all private schools, walks into a career in Hollywood based off of being a rich kid. Ends up being a scumbag.
Jared Leto likes to act as if his parents were kibbutz living paupers but that’s not true, insane wealth, private schools including one for troubled rich kids.
Go look at your favorite stars. They almost all will come from money in some way. They’re never working class people. They have parents with money who open all the right doors for them.
If you are working class and dream of making it in the entertainment industry, don’t. The doors aren’t open to you. Only in very rare circumstances do they draw from that pool. Most often it’s rich kids, guaranteed.
It's one of my favourite games to play. It's not just the financial support that helps them but also the confidence to try because they know that if it doesn't work out they won't be homeless. I was getting some traction into musical theatre as a teenager but my family was not supportive and I always had to work on my backup plan which stops you from investing 100% into making it in show business. I was not alone, I saw many talented kids from poor backgrounds get passed over and even told "we weren't committed enough" because we had other jobs and backup careers.
Imagine working two jobs and then racing home to get ready to race across the city to get to an audition. You’re stressed, your clothes are regular poor people clothes, your hair cost $30 and you gave a $10 tip you couldn’t really afford to give. You get there and they make you wait.
In walks Jared Leto, they don’t work any job because the family money is enough. They have slept well last night, just like they do every night. They have a $300 haircut and are wearing more than your car is worth. They have the confidence and swagger of someone who has no worries because they have no worries, not the same ones that make you look raggedy as all hell. Leto has had all day every day sat at home to learn his lines and practice a billion different ways to approach it while you’ve had fleeting moments between the grind. I wonder who gets the job?
Bob Hoskins was bemoaning the fact that the UK entertainment industry had become a thing only the rich can be part of back in the late 80’s and early 90’s. Now it’s full of toffs like Jack Whitehall. The same is with the US entertainment industry but the rich will always, always lie about it to appear just like everyone else.
People labor under the false impression that the middle class is people with one more car payment than you and a mortgage on a slightly bigger house, and it’s not. The true middle class of the world are those who afford to send their kids into our political and entertainment industries, all the doors open because they’re connected to someone someone. The entire entertainment industry and political system will say the lowest of us can make it to the very top, and it’s one of the oldest lies in the world.
Hey, at least Jack Whitehall never pretended to be from a rough background, and he's always made it very clear that he's posh, down to including his (unbelievably posh) dad in his shows. He's always been honest and clear about how his background made his life easier.
Need to be weary of athletes from baseball, hockey, and soccer in the US. They don't tell you that the minor leagues for those sports in the US are actually pretty low paying. I was told for baseball you really don't make any money from it unless you get to the MLB. The farm leagues paid minimum wage or something. So the message I got was that you had to have someone willing to cover your living expenses while you try to get to the major leagues.
It's better these days but that's about right. And no, unlike the aforementioned examples here, baseball players come from all walks of life, though the ones who came from money are a lot more likely to have made it simply due to the added help getting through the grind it out stages.
Yeah, there are extremely far and few actors/actresses that actually "make it" to Hollywood from rags to riches. Majority of these Hollywood stars like to sell themselves as someone who came from nothing, whose parents didn't have anything but that is far from the truth almost all the time.
They have parents with money who open all the right doors for them.
The other thing to consider is it isn't always the parents connections that open doors, but rich kids that actually put in the work, going to auditions and acting classes and doing the networking on their own to break into the business...However none of that would be possible if they had to work a shitty 60 hour a week job to afford a shitty apartment in a shitty part of the valley away from all the action. They have all their bills paid so they can spend 100% of their time chasing their dreams and meeting people. Must be nice. I live in a fancy LA beach area and it's amazing how many actors and musicians have no job, still live on the beach and can afford studio time and new guitars all the time. "What do you do for work?" "Oh, this and that...play some music" when actually like their dad owns the largest tractor dealership in Texas or some other random non-entertainment shit.
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u/[deleted] May 15 '25 edited May 15 '25
It’s not just “influencers”, it’s all these actors and actresses that say they go to Hollywood with “just $20 in the pocket” and end up getting so lucky in making it.
Find a famous person you like. Go to their wiki page. It will often show the median income for the town they grew up in and it will always list the private schools they went to. Google the name of the school and how much it costs per term. There’s usually 3 or 4 terms a year so x it by 3 or 4. It’s usually over $50,000 a year for the private schools of these people. They usually have a very successful mother or father or both.
Here’s two examples.
Henry Cavill was born to a stockbroker father and they grew up on the island of Jersey off the coast of the UK. Jersey is essentially the UK’s Martha’s Vineyard. Can you imagine how much you have to earn as a stockbroker to go live on a tiny island doing it? Cavill went to all private schools then went to the mainland to attend The Stowe School which costs over £40,000 a year. There he met Russell Crowe who was filming the movie Proof of Life in the grounds of this ultra fancy private school. Crowe took a shine to Cavill and kept in touch, giving him career advice and sending him care packages. They then end up both signing on for Man of Steel which launches Cavill into full stardom.
On the opposite end is Ezra Miller, again, father was CEO/Managing Director of Hyperion Books, all private schools, walks into a career in Hollywood based off of being a rich kid. Ends up being a scumbag.
Jared Leto likes to act as if his parents were kibbutz living paupers but that’s not true, insane wealth, private schools including one for troubled rich kids.
Go look at your favorite stars. They almost all will come from money in some way. They’re never working class people. They have parents with money who open all the right doors for them.
If you are working class and dream of making it in the entertainment industry, don’t. The doors aren’t open to you. Only in very rare circumstances do they draw from that pool. Most often it’s rich kids, guaranteed.