Meet today’s breakout class: Maya Hawke , daughter of Uma Thurman and Ethan Hawke. Jack Quaid , son of Meg Ryan and Dennis Quaid. Zoë Kravitz, child of Lisa Bonet and Lenny Kravitz. John David Washington , Margaret Qualley , Dakota Johnson, Maude Apatow. Even Destry Spielberg is directing now.

What was once an open secret has become marketable identity — the family tree isn’t just background anymore. Legacy, in today’s Hollywood , isn’t just a perk. It’s the pitch.

For much of the last century, the industry clung to the fiction that it ran on grit and luck — a waitress discovered at Schwab’s, a Sicilian immigrant bluffing his way into a studio job, a down-on-his-luck actor who sold his dog before writing Rocky . These weren’t just origin stories. They were the dream. Holly

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