David Mamet is speaking out in response to the presumption that his kids are nepo babies.
For those who don’t know, Mamet is the two-time Oscar-nominated screenwriter of The Verdict and Wag the Dog and two-time Tony-nominated writer of Broadway plays like Glengarry Glen Ross and Speed-the-Plow.
Mamet‘s daughters are Girls actress Zosia and The Neighbors actress Clara.
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“They earned it by merit,” Mamet said at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books (via TheWrap). “Nobody ever gave my kids a job because of who they were related to.”
Mamet also slammed diversity rules in Hollywood.
“Dei is garbage,” he said. “It’s fascist totalitarianism.”
Zosia recently starred in one of the most critically-panned movies of the year so far.
For those who don’t know, Mamet is the two-time Oscar-nominated screenwriter of The Verdict and Wag the Dog and two-time Tony-nominated writer of Broadway plays like Glengarry Glen Ross and Speed-the-Plow.
Mamet‘s daughters are Girls actress Zosia and The Neighbors actress Clara.
Keep reading to find out more…
“They earned it by merit,” Mamet said at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books (via TheWrap). “Nobody ever gave my kids a job because of who they were related to.”
Mamet also slammed diversity rules in Hollywood.
“Dei is garbage,” he said. “It’s fascist totalitarianism.”
Zosia recently starred in one of the most critically-panned movies of the year so far.
- 4/23/2024
- by Just Jared
- Just Jared
Legendary Academy Award-nominated screenwriter and playwright David Mamet said that his children aren’t nepo babies and that they have achieved their success due to their talent. His daughter Zosia Mamet is best known for starring on “Girls” alongside news anchor Brian Williams’ daughter Allison Williams, Bad Company drummer Simon Kirke’s daughter Jemima Kirke and creator Lena Dunham, daughter of a pair of New York City artists.
Promoting his memoir “Everywhere an Oink Oink” over the weekend at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, David conceded that his daughters — including Zosia’s sister Clara Mamet — learned from spending time on set with their father, according to the L.A. Times. He noted that he felt gratified by that.
Speaking particularly of the successful Zosia, Mamet argued that his daughters haven’t benefited from any form of privilege. “They earned it by merit,” he said.
“Nobody ever gave my kids...
Promoting his memoir “Everywhere an Oink Oink” over the weekend at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, David conceded that his daughters — including Zosia’s sister Clara Mamet — learned from spending time on set with their father, according to the L.A. Times. He noted that he felt gratified by that.
Speaking particularly of the successful Zosia, Mamet argued that his daughters haven’t benefited from any form of privilege. “They earned it by merit,” he said.
“Nobody ever gave my kids...
- 4/22/2024
- by Mike Roe
- The Wrap
Exclusive: Zosia Mamet is set to co-star alongside Ann Dowd in upcoming horror thriller The Undertaker’s Children, producer and seller The Exchange has announced as it rolls out sales at the EFM.
Mamet, whose credits include the HBO TV series Girls and The Flight Attendant, has been seen most recently in Columbia Pictures action-sci fi picture Madame Web.
Inspired by real events, The Undertaker’s Children is about a reclusive undertaker (Dowd), who is forced to take in the children of a deceased distant relative.
When the older sister uncovers her sinister plan to get rid of them, she contacts a child welfare nurse (Mamet), pleading for help. As things escalate, the girl has no choice but to escape with her brother before helps arrives, unleashing an evil that knows no bounds in the process.
Alex Gayner makes his directorial debut on the movie, after working as a second...
Mamet, whose credits include the HBO TV series Girls and The Flight Attendant, has been seen most recently in Columbia Pictures action-sci fi picture Madame Web.
Inspired by real events, The Undertaker’s Children is about a reclusive undertaker (Dowd), who is forced to take in the children of a deceased distant relative.
When the older sister uncovers her sinister plan to get rid of them, she contacts a child welfare nurse (Mamet), pleading for help. As things escalate, the girl has no choice but to escape with her brother before helps arrives, unleashing an evil that knows no bounds in the process.
Alex Gayner makes his directorial debut on the movie, after working as a second...
- 2/17/2024
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- Deadline Film + TV
Aristotle Athari, also known as Aristotle Athiras, is a American actor, comedian and filmmaker. He is best known for his short stint as a cast member on the popular NBC comedy series Saturday Night Live, where he appeared for its forty-seventh season.
Aristotle Athari Biography: Age, Early Life, Family, Education
Aristotle Athari was born on July 28, 1991 (Aristotle Athari age: 32) in Plano, Texas. He is of Iranian American descent.
For college, Athari attended the University of Southern California.
Aristotle Athari Biography: Career
In an exclusive interview with uInterview, Athari revealed what inspired him and made him want to begin his comedy career in the first place.
“I mean, I was always a class clown growing up,” Athari declared. “Really, kind of, that was the only thing I was good at, I guess, maybe? I liked art a lot in school, but wasn’t the best student growing up. A teacher told...
Aristotle Athari Biography: Age, Early Life, Family, Education
Aristotle Athari was born on July 28, 1991 (Aristotle Athari age: 32) in Plano, Texas. He is of Iranian American descent.
For college, Athari attended the University of Southern California.
Aristotle Athari Biography: Career
In an exclusive interview with uInterview, Athari revealed what inspired him and made him want to begin his comedy career in the first place.
“I mean, I was always a class clown growing up,” Athari declared. “Really, kind of, that was the only thing I was good at, I guess, maybe? I liked art a lot in school, but wasn’t the best student growing up. A teacher told...
- 8/18/2023
- by Trevor Hanuka
- Uinterview
In writer and director Michael Lukk Litwik‘s sci-fi romantic comedy Molli & Max In The Future, viewers follow the story of Molli, Zosia Mamet, and Max, Aristotle Athari, as the two’s paths continuously cross through three dimensions and four planets over the span of 12 years.
In an exclusive interview with uInterview founder Erik Meers at the South by Southwest Film Festival in Austin, Texas, Athari revealed what it was like working with Mamet on set.
“Well, I mean Zosia’s very, very easy to work with because she’s just so pleasurable,” he began. “She’s just like a nice person to be with, it’s just like I was waiting for a moment to be like, you know, kind of that moment where you know somebody’s like a little Hollywood and she’s like not like that at all. We shared a lot of photos of...
In an exclusive interview with uInterview founder Erik Meers at the South by Southwest Film Festival in Austin, Texas, Athari revealed what it was like working with Mamet on set.
“Well, I mean Zosia’s very, very easy to work with because she’s just so pleasurable,” he began. “She’s just like a nice person to be with, it’s just like I was waiting for a moment to be like, you know, kind of that moment where you know somebody’s like a little Hollywood and she’s like not like that at all. We shared a lot of photos of...
- 3/29/2023
- by Hailey Schipper
- Uinterview
Premiering at this year’s Locarno Film Festival, Lidia Duda’s Fledglings is an entrancing look at a trio of seven year olds who bravely travel far from home to board at a school for the visually impaired. Forced to rely only on themselves, their teachers — and most importantly one another — Zosia, Oskar and Kinga spend their days mastering everything from handrails to utensils, to spelling words and playing the piano. Not to mention navigating often overwhelming emotions. (At least for the creative Zosia and sensitive Oskar, whose developmental disabilities can sometimes stress the besties out. Kinga, on the other […]
The post “Without the Consent of our Child Protagonists We Would Not Have Made the Film”: Lidia Duda on her Locarno-Premiering Doc Fledglings first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.
The post “Without the Consent of our Child Protagonists We Would Not Have Made the Film”: Lidia Duda on her Locarno-Premiering Doc Fledglings first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.
- 8/12/2022
- by Lauren Wissot
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
Premiering at this year’s Locarno Film Festival, Lidia Duda’s Fledglings is an entrancing look at a trio of seven year olds who bravely travel far from home to board at a school for the visually impaired. Forced to rely only on themselves, their teachers — and most importantly one another — Zosia, Oskar and Kinga spend their days mastering everything from handrails to utensils, to spelling words and playing the piano. Not to mention navigating often overwhelming emotions. (At least for the creative Zosia and sensitive Oskar, whose developmental disabilities can sometimes stress the besties out. Kinga, on the other […]
The post “Without the Consent of our Child Protagonists We Would Not Have Made the Film”: Lidia Duda on her Locarno-Premiering Doc Fledglings first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.
The post “Without the Consent of our Child Protagonists We Would Not Have Made the Film”: Lidia Duda on her Locarno-Premiering Doc Fledglings first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.
- 8/12/2022
- by Lauren Wissot
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
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Season two of HBO Max’s The Flight Attendant is grander, deeper and more real, stars Kaley Cuoco and Zosia Mamet tell THR, sitting side by side on a couch in Cuoco’s home, where they’ve been living together during production of the second season. The two real-life friends play best friends on the show, which in its second go-round follows flight attendant Cassie Bowden as she becomes an asset for the CIA but soon realizes that a woman pretending to be her is causing havoc around the globe.
Cuoco and Mamet talk to THR about how the show blended with real lives (including Cuoco filing for divorce from equestrian Karl Cook around the same time season two was starting to film), their acting processes and how it deepened their friendship.
How did season two feel different to you both?
Kaley Cuoco...
Season two of HBO Max’s The Flight Attendant is grander, deeper and more real, stars Kaley Cuoco and Zosia Mamet tell THR, sitting side by side on a couch in Cuoco’s home, where they’ve been living together during production of the second season. The two real-life friends play best friends on the show, which in its second go-round follows flight attendant Cassie Bowden as she becomes an asset for the CIA but soon realizes that a woman pretending to be her is causing havoc around the globe.
Cuoco and Mamet talk to THR about how the show blended with real lives (including Cuoco filing for divorce from equestrian Karl Cook around the same time season two was starting to film), their acting processes and how it deepened their friendship.
How did season two feel different to you both?
Kaley Cuoco...
- 6/19/2022
- by Beatrice Verhoeven
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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