Between them, the songwriting and manufacturing duo have been awarded just about each accolade the music business has to supply — a ton of Grammys, hit singles, a No. 1 album, and two Academy Awards for Finest Unique Track.
Aged simply 22 and 27, Billie and Finneas are already midway to EGOT standing. Now, their mother, Maggie Baird, has denied accusations that they benefited from nepotism of their rise to stardom.
For some context, Maggie and her husband, Patrick O’Connell, labored as actors in LA from the Eighties to the 2010s, and earlier this 12 months, a clip of Maggie in an episode of Pals made the rounds on social media.
It’s not unusual for Hollywood celebrities to have gotten their begin due to household connections, and the revelation that Maggie had appeared — albeit very briefly — in such a serious TV present led followers to marvel if Billie and Finneas might have benefited from an analogous leg-up.
Nevertheless, in a brand new interview with Glamour, Maggie mentioned this was not the case, clarifying that her appearing profession wasn’t practically as profitable as followers may need assumed.
“I feel it’s hilarious,” Maggie mentioned, addressing all of the chatter across the Pals clip. “As a result of that got here out, and it was like, ‘Oh, Billie is a nepo child.’ And I’m like, ‘Do you know that I obtained that episode of Pals as a result of I used to be about to lose my medical insurance?’”
She described herself and Patrick as “working class actors,” saying: “We eked out a meager dwelling, and it afforded us numerous time with our youngsters, which was superior.”
Recalling her time working in Hollywood, Maggie addressed the misperception that being a full-time actor at all times means you’re making a ton of cash out of your work.
“I feel that folks don’t actually perceive there’s an entire business of people who find themselves inventive and so they’re working and so they’re struggling, and so they make completely comfortable lives, and so they really feel inventive, and so they really feel fulfilled,” she instructed the outlet.
