As usual, the internet is doing its thing and taking the ‘SNL’ star out of context. Can we all just calm down?
It all started almost an hour into the episode, when Rudolph and Shepard were talking about their families, the biz, and their respective approaches to their careers. It was then that Rudolph’s famous family came up. Her mother was venerated soul singer Minnie Riperton, and her father is music producer Richard Rudolph. Riperton died in 1979 at the age of 31, when Maya was only 7 years old.
After observing that her musical parents and their peers seemed “relaxed” about their careers, Rudolph pivoted to another subject. ,” Rudolph said. “I understand that drive to be somewhere else, forage in a new city and create my own path. But that’s a huge undertaking,” she continued. “I wasn’t like, ‘Oh, my dad writes songs, that’s gonna make me a comedian.’ There was no direct line. I knew I had to get there myself.
If asked directly how she feels about the “nepo baby” label or how her upbringing might have privileged her, Rudolph may offer a different, more considered response. Or she wouldn’t! But the point is that for right now, we don’t actually know what Rudolph thinks about how her parents’ status affected her marketability because that’s not what this discussion was about.
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