Melanie Griffith seems to be effortlessly cool whereas grabbing lunch in WeHo… after daughter Dakota Johnson was mocked on ‘nepo child’ cowl

Melanie Griffith regarded effortlessly cool whereas grabbing lunch from Petrossian Restaurant & Boutique in West Hollywood on Monday.

The Lolita star, 65, was joined by her canine for the outing, and donned a cream leather-based jacket over a white tee, which she paired with mild blue denims and brown sandals. 

It comes after her daughter Dakota Johnson, 33, was mocked on New York Journal’s The Yr of the Nepo Child cowl amongst a slew of different younger stars with well-known dad and mom.

Antonio Banderas’ ex-wife shielded her eyes with a pair of cat-eye sun shades and wore a brown shoulder bag.

Melanie wore her blonde tresses down and in mild waves for the the afternoon outing. 

Earlier on Monday her daughter landed on New York Magazine’s ‘nepo child’ cowl together with Maya Hawke, Zoë Kravitz and extra stars with well-known dad and mom.

Stylish: The Lolita star, 65, was joined by her canine for the outing, and donned a cream leather-based jacket over a white tee, which she paired with mild blue denims and brown sandals

Movie star nepotism is nothing new however the insult ‘nepo child’ has develop into more and more widespread as shorthand to deride it.

Vulture senior author Nate Jones spoke with managers and casting administrators within the business, certainly one of whom merely said: ‘Loads of the kids of well-known persons are not good.’

‘Somebody as soon as mentioned to me, “We must always rent so-and-so as a result of their dad and mom will come to the opening night time,” a veteran casting director recalled. 

‘She has her mom’s eyes. And agent’: It comes after her daughter Dakota Johnson, 33, was mocked on New York Journal’s The Yr of the Nepo Child cowl together with Maya Hawke, Zoë Kravitz, and different stars with well-known dad and mom

‘An enormous company will write and say, “That is so-and-so’s child,” and also you perceive that to imply “So it’s important to see this child.” I’ve realized to easily say, “Not proper for the position. However pretty.” There are a variety of veiled responses slightly than saying, “Are you guys kidding me?”‘

Like Laura Dern, Michael Douglas, Kate Hudson and Gwyneth Paltrow – Dakota comes from a dynasty of well-known actors – her mom is Oscar nominee Melanie, and her grandmother is Golden Globe winner Tippi Hedren.

The Impartial Spirit Award winner – whose father is Emmy nominee Don Johnson – was famously topped Miss Golden Globe in 2006, a debutante-style title reserved for the daughters of celebrities.

Suspiria director Luca Guadagnino mentioned of casting Johnson because the highly effective lead in his 2019 horror remake: ‘I can see Tippi Hedren [in her].’ 

Heiress: Like Laura Dern, Michael Douglas, Kate Hudson, and Gwyneth Paltrow – Dakota (L, pictured in 2015) comes from a dynasty of well-known actors – her mom is Oscar nominee Melanie (2-R) and her grandmother is Golden Globe winner Tippi Hedren (2-L)

Leg up: Dakota – whose father is Emmy nominee Don Johnson (R, pictured in 2017) – was famously topped Miss Golden Globe in 2006, a debutante-style title reserved for the daughters of celebrities

Suspiria director Luca Guadagnino (R) mentioned of casting Johnson because the highly effective lead in his 2019 horror remake: ‘I can see Tippi Hedren [in her]’

Earlier than anybody noticed her in Stranger Issues, Maya enlisted her well-known father Ethan Hawke to seem in her audition tape for the position of Flower Woman in As soon as Upon a Time in Hollywood, and director Quentin Tarantino was impressed.

The 24-year-old daughter of Uma Thurman arguably did not pull off her one pivotal scene as a jittery Manson Member of the family (primarily based on Linda Kasabian) who bought chilly ft and fled the scene of the Sharon Tate murders in 1969.

‘I believe it is cool that after I play reveals, younger queer girls who love [my Stranger Things character Robin Buckley] can come and hook up with my music, too,’ Hawke instructed Flood Magazine in August.

‘There’s plenty of cohesion there. I do not really feel like they’re so disjointed, or I would like them to be totally different in the identical means that I do not want individuals to faux I haven’t got well-known dad and mom. I really like Stranger Issues! I really like Robin. I really like my dad and mom. I really like writing music. And I am me in all of these conditions.’

Director Quentin Tarantino was impressed: Earlier than anybody noticed her in Stranger Issues, Maya (R, pictured in 2018) enlisted her well-known father Ethan Hawke (L) to seem in her audition tape for the position of Flower Woman in As soon as Upon a Time in Hollywood

M’eh: The 24-year-old daughter of Uma Thurman arguably did not pull off her one pivotal scene as a jittery Manson Member of the family (primarily based on Linda Kasabian) who bought chilly ft and fled the scene of the Sharon Tate murders in 1969

Hawke (R, pictured in 2020) instructed Flood Journal in August: ‘I do not want individuals to faux I haven’t got well-known dad and mom. I really like Stranger Issues! I really like Robin. I really like my dad and mom. I really like writing music. And I am me in all of these conditions’ 

And whereas Zoë admitted to GQ final month that she had a ‘deep insecurity’ about being the daughter of Lenny Kravitz and Lisa Bonet, she scoffed: ‘It is fully regular for individuals to be within the household enterprise.’

Lily-Rose Depp was blasted on TikTok final month for ‘being delusional’ over how having actor Johnny Depp and model-singer Vanessa Paradis as her dad and mom has given her direct ties to modeling for Chanel (at 5ft3in) and performing in movies.

‘The web cares much more about who your loved ones is than the people who find themselves casting you in issues. Possibly you get your foot within the door, however you continue to simply have your foot within the door. There’s plenty of work that comes after that,’ the 23-year-old star of HBO’s The Idol instructed ELLE.

‘It is bizarre to me to cut back any individual to the concept they’re solely there as a result of it is a generational factor. It simply does not make any sense. If any individual’s mother or dad is a physician, after which the child turns into a physician, you are not going to be like, “Effectively, you are solely a physician as a result of your mum or dad is a physician.” It is like, “No, I went to medical faculty and educated.”‘

And whereas Zoë (R, pictured in 2019) admitted to GQ final month that she had a ‘deep insecurity’ about being the daughter of Lenny Kravitz (2-R) and Lisa Bonet (3-L), she scoffed: ‘It is fully regular for individuals to be within the household enterprise’

Enhance: Lily-Rose Depp (R, pictured in 2015) was blasted on TikTok final month for ‘being delusional’ over how having actor Johnny Depp (L) and model-singer Vanessa Paradis as her dad and mom has given her direct ties to modeling for Chanel (at 5ft3in) and performing in movies

The 23-year-old star of HBO’s The Idol instructed ELLE: ‘It is bizarre to me to cut back any individual to the concept they’re solely there as a result of it is a generational factor. It simply does not make any sense’

Affiliation: The preferred outlet of nepotism is the modeling business the place progeny like Paul Walker’s daughter Meadow, Stephen Baldwin’s daughter Hailey Bieber, Kris Jenner’s daughter Kendall, Kamala Harris’ stepdaughter Ella Emhoff, and Cindy Crawford’s (L, pictured March 1) daughter Kaia Gerber (R) discovered a quick monitor

Vulture senior author Nate Jones wrote: ‘The mannequin Kaia Gerber has profited handsomely from trying precisely like her mom, Cindy Crawford. Whereas Bruce Willis (3-L) and Demi Moore’s (2-L) daughters had been undoubtedly hampered by inheriting their father’s most well-known function, his chin’

The preferred outlet of nepotism is the modeling business the place progeny like Paul Walker’s daughter Meadow, Stephen Baldwin’s daughter Hailey Bieber, Kris Jenner’s daughter Kendall, Kamala Harris’ stepdaughter Ella Emhoff, and Cindy Crawford’s daughter Kaia Gerber discovered a quick monitor.

‘The mannequin Kaia Gerber has profited handsomely from trying precisely like her mom, Cindy Crawford,’ Jones wrote.

‘Whereas Bruce Willis and Demi Moore’s daughters had been undoubtedly hampered by inheriting their father’s most well-known function, his chin.’

One supervisor mentioned the extra these fashions converse the much less relatable they develop into to the general public: ‘On Instagram, plenty of them are usually not essentially showcasing their life as a socialite. They’re like, “Oh my God, have a look at me at this dive bar.” Woman, weren’t you simply on a yacht final night time?’

Trace, trace! Earlier this 12 months, Reese Witherspoon (L) instructed Mindy Kaling (R) that her son Deacon (with ex-husband Ryan Phillippe) was fascinated by following his dad and mom’ well-known footsteps 

It is all who you already know! The 43-year-old By no means Have I Ever co-creator promptly forged the ‘gifted, great-looking’ 19-year-old (2-L) as Parker in two episode of the Netflix present’s third season

MailOnline readers are solely too acquainted with David and Victoria Beckham’s eldest son Brooklyn Peltz Beckham (L, pictured in 2021), whom The Guardian blasted as incapable of getting ‘what different mortals would possibly regard as novice hobbies with out contemplating them nascent skilled empires’ 

The 23-year-old Englishman admitted to Bustle final month: ‘I am not knowledgeable chef – in any respect. I’ve by no means mentioned that. I by no means would say that. Clearly, my dad [retired soccer star David Beckham] knew what he was doing at a really younger age. I’ve solely been doing cooking for not even three years’ (pictured in November)

Earlier this 12 months, Reese Witherspoon instructed Mindy Kaling that her son Deacon (with ex-husband Ryan Phillippe) was fascinated by following his dad and mom’ well-known footsteps.

The 43-year-old By no means Have I Ever co-creator promptly forged the ‘gifted, great-looking’ 19-year-old as Parker in two episode of the Netflix present’s third season.

MailOnline readers are solely too acquainted with David and Victoria Beckham’s eldest son Brooklyn Peltz Beckham, whom The Guardian blasted as incapable of getting ‘what different mortals would possibly regard as novice hobbies with out contemplating them nascent skilled empires.’

‘I am not knowledgeable chef – in any respect,’ the 23-year-old Englishman admitted to Bustle final month.

Nothing new! Hollywood nepotism dates way back to Douglas Fairbanks Jr. within the Twenties, Liza Minnelli within the seventies, and properly into the Nineteen Eighties with Jeff Bridges (R, pictured in 1990), the son of Lloyd Bridges (L)

The 73-year-old Oscar winner instructed the authors of Hollywood Dynasties again in 1984: ‘For a very long time, I questioned whether or not my profession had come to me due to my very own skills or due to some type of genteel nepotism. The guilt induced large issues for me’ (pictured in 1989)

‘I’ve by no means mentioned that. I by no means would say that. Clearly, my dad [retired soccer star David Beckham] knew what he was doing at a really younger age. I’ve solely been doing cooking for not even three years.’

Brooklyn pressured: ‘It is okay to be 25, 26, and even 30 and never know what you are doing but. You realize what I imply?’

Hollywood nepotism dates way back to Douglas Fairbanks Jr. within the Twenties, Liza Minnelli within the seventies, and properly into the Nineteen Eighties with Jeff Bridges, the son of Lloyd Bridges.

‘For a very long time, I questioned whether or not my profession had come to me due to my very own skills or due to some type of genteel nepotism,’ the 73-year-old Oscar winner instructed the authors of Hollywood Dynasties again in 1984.

‘The guilt induced large issues for me.’