WHEN LILY COLLINS, a daughter of Phil Collins, a rock star, was starting out(刚起步，初入行) as an actor, agents asked her: “Well, what makes you so special? Everybody in LA is a cousin or a daughter of someone.” She was later cast(挑选演员，选角) as the irritating(惹人烦的，令人恼火的) star of “Emily in Paris”, a hit TV show.
莉莉·柯林斯是摇滚明星菲尔·柯林斯的女儿。她刚入行当演员时，经纪人问她：“那你有什么特别之处？洛杉矶每个人不是某人的表亲，就是某人的女儿。”她后来出演了热门电视剧《艾米丽在巴黎》，饰演那个惹人烦的女主角。
Hollywood crawls with(爬满，遍布) “nepo babies” (as the offspring(后代，子女) of famous folk are called). Over the past five years Google searches for “nepo babies in Hollywood” have been at least 50 times higher than they were in the previous half-decade.(过去五年，“好莱坞星二代”的谷歌搜索量至少是此前五年的50倍。) Look around, and you see them everywhere. At least ten films currently showing in American cinemas feature them: there’s Maya Hawke, daughter of Ethan Hawke and Uma Thurman (in “One Night Only”), and Margaret Qualley, daughter of Andie MacDowell (in “The Dog Stars”).
好莱坞遍地都是“星二代”（这是人们对名人后代的称呼）。过去五年，“好莱坞星二代”的谷歌搜索量至少是此前五年的50倍。环顾四周，他们无处不在。目前美国影院上映的影片中，至少有十部有星二代出演：比如伊桑·霍克和乌玛·瑟曼的女儿玛雅·霍克（出演《仅此一夜》），以及安迪·麦克道威尔的女儿玛格丽特·库里（出演《狗星》）。
But how many nepo babies are there, really? Giggster, an online film-location marketplace, has looked at American films released between 2000 and 2025. It compiled a list of some 4,400 actors under the age of 35 who had appeared in them, then worked out who had at least one parent already working professionally in entertainment.(它整理出一份约4400名35岁以下、曾出演这些电影的演员名单，然后统计出其中哪些人至少有一位父母已在娱乐行业专业工作。) Across the 25-year period, 28% of these actors did. Nepo babies are commanding(获得，占据) more roles and more lines(台词). In 2000 they made up 6.6% of appearances by young actors, but by 2025 that share had more than doubled, to 16.3%.
但星二代到底有多少？在线电影取景地交易平台 Giggster 研究了2000至2025年间上映的美国电影。它整理出一份约4400名35岁以下、曾出演这些电影的演员名单，然后统计出其中哪些人至少有一位父母已在娱乐行业专业工作。在这25年间，28%的演员符合这一条件。星二代正在拿下更多角色和更多台词。2000年，他们占年轻演员出镜次数的6.6%，到2025年这一比例翻了一倍多，达到16.3%。