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Sigourney Weaver's high school yearbook photo, 1967 (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 days ago by FlyingSquid to c/historyporn

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[–] [email protected] 80 points 3 days ago (1 children)

That's a great yearbook quote for/from someone who ended up doing extraordinary things.

[+] [email protected] -7 points 3 days ago (5 children)

I mean yes, but also no. She's a total nepo baby. Her mom was a big actress and her dad was literally the president of NBC

[–] Maggoty 27 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Being a nepo baby doesn't give you talent. She did all the work, she just didn't have to spend a decade serving tables while waiting to be discovered. Nepotism sucks, but we shouldn't turn away genuinely hard working and talented people for it. It's more like a red flag that makes the nepo baby need to prove themselves, which she did.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 3 days ago (3 children)

She's talented and hard working, but there are zillions of actresses just as talented and hard working as her. The nepotism is what gets her the extra auditions and gets her selected over the other equally talented and hard working actresses

[–] Maggoty 5 points 3 days ago

Yeah and that's the damage. I said as much. But they aren't going to not audition her.

[–] 4grams 11 points 3 days ago (1 children)

there’s a couple nepo babies in Hollywood that I’m ok with. She’s one of them, Julia Louse Dreyfus is another one. I mean, granted going into acting and getting some success was not exactly due to straight up hard work, but there’s plenty of people in similar situations who don’t put in ANY work, don’t give us good performances and don’t support decent social causes..

I just can’t get angry just from where they came. I get angry with those that exploit and feel entitled simply due to their luck of birth.

[–] SkunkWorkz 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

How is Julia Louis-Dreyfus a Hollywood nepo baby? Her family doesn’t work in the industry. Sure she’s privileged as hell since she is a billionaire heir. She never had to worry about money while pursuing an acting career, but being privileged isn’t automatically nepotism. Maybe her family could have used their vast network to get her an audition for SNL but there is no proof of that.

Though her son is a straight up nepo baby.

[–] 4grams 1 points 2 days ago

Yeah, I suppose you are right, but money pretty much replaces connections in any industry so I lump them in the same category. Both had roadblocks cleared for them that most don’t due to connections. One came from the industry, another from Industry.

[–] chonglibloodsport 12 points 3 days ago (2 children)

So if you were her sibling you would have done much more extraordinary things?

[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Nothing i said implied that. Apparently people don't know what a nepo baby is. A nepo baby gets a massive leg up over the competition because of who their parents are. They can be talented, but their success in the industry came about because their parents are powerful

[–] chonglibloodsport 11 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

People know perfectly well what a nepo baby is. She’s not the only person in the world who had the same (or even better) opportunities. Her accomplishments are still extraordinary.

Everyone has to play the hand they’re dealt. She’s played hers far better than most. That’s what people are acknowledging.

This whole game of “she owes everything to her parents” is BS because countless other people have been born to privilege and accomplished NOTHING.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 days ago (1 children)

And a overwhelmingly larger number of people were born to abject poverty and got nowhere despite great talent and effort.

[–] chonglibloodsport 6 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Right and that’s a tragedy. But that doesn’t take anything away from Sigourney Weaver’s achievements. Even if everyone on earth was born into a Star Trek techno-utopia with no poverty or war or disease, with every opportunity available to everyone, her achievements on the screen would still be extremely impressive.

[–] LowtierComputer 5 points 3 days ago

Clearly Beacon is a more talented actress.

[–] Twinklebreeze 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I think you mean legacy artist. Nepo babies are the ones that can't act.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago

Not true at all. Nepo babies can be talented, but they got a massive leg up over the competition because of who their parents are.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

So, not normal

[–] [email protected] 23 points 3 days ago (1 children)

TIL she doesn't use a stage name

[–] FlyingSquid 38 points 3 days ago (3 children)

It's sort of a stage name. It's a name she chose for herself.

Susan Alexandra Weaver was born in New York City on October 8, 1949,[4][5] the daughter of English actress Elizabeth Inglis (1913–2007)[6] and American television executive Pat Weaver (1908–2002).[7] Her father served as president of NBC from 1953 to 1955, during which time he created The Today Show.[8] Pat's brother, Doodles Weaver, was a comedian and contributor to Mad.[9] She is of Dutch, English, Scots-Irish, and Scottish descent through her father.[10][11]

At the age of 14, Weaver began using the name "Sigourney" after she took it from a minor character in The Great Gatsby.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigourney_Weaver

[–] RizzRustbolt 22 points 3 days ago (2 children)

So... she has the second best stage name in the Weaver family.

[–] scutiger 5 points 2 days ago

NGL, Doodles Weaver is a pretty memorable name.

[–] FlyingSquid 3 points 2 days ago

And she did a lot fewer recordings with Spike Jones and his City Slickers.

[–] pyre 18 points 3 days ago

it's crazy to think that someone would see the name at 14 and start using it their whole life. iconic. she had nothing to worry about with that attitude; she never had the chance to be normal.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 days ago (1 children)

TIL it is a stage name

[–] scutiger 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It's not her given name, but it's also not a stage name because it's a name she was using before she started acting.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

TIL it's a name

[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 days ago (1 children)

She looks like that girl from Ned’s Declassified that ran through the whole cast

[–] DerArzt 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I had to look this up, gotta say I'm not surprised about what happened.

[–] JokklMaster 6 points 2 days ago (2 children)

What happened exactly?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

this is wild

https://youtu.be/hDnNbnAnNqo

[–] JokklMaster 1 points 2 days ago

That was certainly something...

[–] GrammarPolice 0 points 2 days ago

Replying for visibility

[–] Sam_Bass 4 points 2 days ago

A valiant effort, madam. But normalcy of late is a relative proposition at best

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

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