'Thunderbolts' Star Lewis Pullman Addresses Nepotism Status: 'Undeniably Fortunate'
Lewis Pullman is putting a positive spin on the nepo-baby label.
The 32-year-old Thunderbolts star, whose parents are actor Bill Pullman and dancer Tamara Hurwitz, discussed how being raised in a Hollywood family gave him advantages while establishing himself as an actor.
“What is so undeniably fortunate about nepotism … what’s the hardest to get is the opportunity to get experience and to find your comfortability within a very bizarre circumstance. And it took me so long to get comfortable in front of a camera and to forget that it’s there, and I wouldn’t have gotten that if I didn’t get all these chances to do so,” he told The Hollywood Reporter.
Lewis also explained how his family influenced him to pursue his creative passions.
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“I was very naive about what my dad did growing up until high school. Then I really started getting curious about it and found a love for it. And he was always very supportive, my mom was always very supportive. I was doing theater as a kid, but then when I got out of college, I really started to think maybe I could do this actually, ‘cause I’m having so much fun and I don’t want to stop,” he said.
“He added it’s been a really incredible kind of blossoming for me, and we have always been such a close-knit family, but it’s great to be able to confide in my pops about certain issues or certain questions. For a long time, I was like, I’m gonna do this on my own and was very stubborn, and I’m so glad that I got over whatever that was because now it’s such a gift to be able to share different experiences with my dad and get advice from him,” he added.
Lewis then discussed how he doesn’t his father’s status overshadow his own identity as an actor.
“Once I realized that it was an impossible pair of shoes to fill, I kind of found a sense of relief in knowing that if there was any future for me in film that it would be by doing it my own way and trying to blaze my own trail,” he said.
“That really freed me up in a lot of ways, kind of realizing that I’m very different from him in a lot of ways. I don’t have the same strengths that he has, so that was a big kind of opening up for me once I was like, OK, I can find my own voice and my own thing and gave myself permission to do that,” he added.
If you didn’t know, Lewis‘ dating history includes multiple stars with famous parents.