Maya Hawk has no problem being a Nepo baby. Maya, the daughter of actors Ethan Hawke and Yuma Thurman, was asked if Maya felt "deserving" of her career success in a new interview with the Sunday Times, where her parents said that being them helped lead some of her acting roles to her land.

"'worthy' is a complex word," she replied. "There are a lot of people who deserve to live a life like this, but I don't deserve it and I think I'm happy to do it anyway."And I know that no one will help if I don't do it. When I was first starting out, I saw 2 paths, and 1 of them go to change your name, get a nose job, and open a casting role.

Maya also addressed several comments about how she landed her role in Quentin Tarantino's Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, which generated backlash. In 2019, she told the Hollywood Reporter, "I auditioned for the project through an agent and through a regular channel. I auditioned in my bedroom with my father [actor Ethan Hawke]. We sent the tape to Quentin and I got a callback.

Speaking to the Times, she said, "I've been making fun of this clip wildly when I said I auditioned on the red carpet. I never meant to mean I didn't get a piece for a nepotistic reason — I think I did it completely.

The term "Nepobaby" quickly gained prominence in late 2022 after Vultures released a feature about Hollywood's 2nd generation stars.

The actress is known for her roles in Stranger Things, Asteroid City and Maestro, but has never avoided referring to her famous family in interviews. Speaking to Variety in 2023, she joked, "We're like boring and indie Kardashian."

Many other famous Nepo babies, such as Kaia Gerber (daughter of Cindy Crawford and Doppelganger) and Jamie Lee Curtis (daughter of Tony Curtis), this La but only a few days after the vulture's work was published, received a letter written "Nepo Baby". What really took the cake when I wore the dress was Hailey Beaver (Stephen Bold), as iconic as it was.

On the other hand, other stars such as Gwyneth Paltrow (daughter of Bryce Danner) and Dakota Johnson (daughter of Melanie Griffith and, perhaps interestingly, Paltrow's ex・husband's partner, Chris Martin) were more critical of the whole discourse.

"There's nothing wrong with doing or wanting to do what your parents are doing," the Goop founder said in 2023. No one rips a child like "I want to be a doctor like my father or grandfather."'"