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FourPacketsOfPeanuts@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 7 months ago

Found out today Sam Lloyd (lawyer in Scrubs) is Christopher Lloyd (Back to the Future)'s nephew. What are some other surprising and lesser known actor connections?

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Found out today Sam Lloyd (lawyer in Scrubs) is Christopher Lloyd (Back to the Future)'s nephew. What are some other surprising and lesser known actor connections?

FourPacketsOfPeanuts@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 7 months ago
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    Ewan McGregor’s (Obi-Wan in the Star Wars prequels) uncle Denis Lawson is one of the few lesser characters to be in all three of the original movies. He played Wedge Antilles.

    McGregor says that he originally just went to watch Star Wars in the cinema with his brother to see their uncle. Then they were blown away by the movie itself.

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      Perfect thanks!

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    maybe not lesser known but Nick Cage’s real surname is Coppola. he’s Francis Ford Coppola’s nephew.

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      He changed his name because he never wanted nepotism off this

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        Born into the Coppola family, Cage began his career in…[]… various films by his uncle Francis Ford Coppola such as Rumble Fish (1983), The Cotton Club (1984), and Peggy Sue Got Married (1986).

        https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolas_Cage

        Bit late for that!

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          Yeah after Pefgy Sue he never wanted to be in any Coppola movies

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    I’m not really shocked by these sorts of things anymore - just more evidence that Hollywood runs on nepotism/“who you know” like any other industry.

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      That AND people with basically endless amounts of money have time to practice skills for themselves like acting, art, or music. Rich people have the most valuable resource in life. Time.

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        And normies refuse to understand this while hopped on “tHeY wOtKed so haRd”

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    It took me a surprising amount of time to realize that John David Washington was Denzel Washington’s son

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    Arnold Schwarzeneggers son in law is Chris Pratt.

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      Ha ha no way. Really?

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    “Was.” His attempt to crowdfund treatment was an eye-opening indictment of American healthcare and the celebrity mythos

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    Diane Ladd is Laura Dern’s mother…and in Wild at Heart they play as mother/daughter.

    Also, (way more obvious) Bruce Dern is Laura Dern’s father irl

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    Jonathan Nolan is Christopher Nolan’s nephew and they share an uncle in John Nolan.

    • misterdoctor@lemmy.world
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      Jonathan is actually Christopher Nolan’s brother

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    Nepo babies do be like that…

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