2nd Generation Rising
5 Hollywood scions making it on their own
Scott Eastwood
“My father taught me not to overthink things, that nothing will ever be perfect, so just keep moving and do your best,” says Eastwood, his father being Clint Eastwood, the Oscar-winning director and one of the greatest movie stars of his generation. Scott’s mom, Jacelyn Reeves, was a flight attendant who had two children with Clint, Scott and his younger sister, Kathryn. Scott, 30, first began acting in Clint’s film Flags of Our Fathers (2006) and later Gran Torino and Invictus. But his career has recently gone into hyperdrive, with Snowden and Suicide Squad in 2016, the “Wildest Dreams” music-video with Taylor Swift, and coming in 2017, Ben Affleck’s Live by Night and Fast 8, the newest Fast & Furious flick.
Lily Collins
“I never understood the word celebrity,” says Collins. “It was just part of my everyday.” She is the daughter of British rock superstar Phil Collins and Jill Tavelman, of Los Angeles, and spent her early childhood in England until her parents’ split when she was five. Lily, now 27, has been acting since 2009, when she had a stint on the 90210 revival on TV and a part as Sandra Bullock’s kid in The Blind Side, a massive hit. She played Snow White in 2012’s Mirror Mirror, opposite Julia Roberts, and ranked #4 that year in People magazine’s list of the world’s most beautiful women. This Christmas, she will be the romantic lead in Warren Beatty’s old-Hollywood romantic comedy Rules Don’t Apply, playing an actress who works for Howard Hughes.
Jack Quaid
When asked what words of wisdom Quaid had received from his parents, Meg Ryan and Dennis Quaid, he said, “ ‘Don’t worry about it!’—great advice that I very rarely take.” Quaid fils, 24, got launched in the business by playing Marvel in The Hunger Games (2012) and (briefly) The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013). Since then, he has been studying at NYU, writes and performs in a YouTube show, Sasquatch Sketch Comedy, and recently spent a season in Martin Scorsese’s ill-fated HBO series Vinyl. This year, he played the older brother in the World War II family drama Ithaca, directed by his mom, who also costars with Tom Hanks and Sam Shepard.
Zoey Deutch
“It feels strange, and false, to be 21, and talk about myself as if I have a real concept of who I am,” says Deutch, the daughter of Lea Thompson (All the Right Moves, TV’s Caroline and the City) and director Howard Deutch (Pretty in Pink, Some Kind of Wonderful), who has been acting since she was a teenager, in the TV series Ringer. Since then she’s had several film roles, playing in Beautiful Creatures, Vampire Academy and Dirty Grandpa, and this year she nabbed juicy parts in Richard Linklater’s Everybody Wants Some!! and the upcoming Why Him? with James Franco and Bryan Cranston.
Dakota Johnson
Johnson, the 27-year-old daughter of Don Johnson and Melanie Griffith (herself the daughter of Hitchcock blond Tippi Hedren), is the only one in this group who stars in an active franchise—the kinky Fifty Shades of Grey (2015). She grew up on film sets, she says: “I’d watch my parents work and think, ‘Yeah, I’m going to do that.’ It wasn’t even a thing. It’s the only thing I know how to do.” Though she started acting at the age of 10 (with her mom in Crazy in Alabama), she’s been working steadily since 2010 (The Social Network), and this year opened a comedy (How to Be Single) and a melodrama (A Bigger Splash) with Tilda Swinton, Ralph Fiennes and Matthias Schoenaerts. Fifty Shades Darker arrives February 10, and Fifty Shades Freed, already in the can, in February 2018.
