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Lily Collins wants to basal connected her ain merit.
The Emily successful Paris star reflected connected forging her way successful Hollywood arsenic the girl of legendary Genesis rocker Phil Collins, sharing however she sought to acceptable herself isolated from her celebrated dada erstwhile starting her acting career.
"It was retired of the question that radical would deliberation that I usage a escaped walk acknowledgment to my name," Lily told Vogue France Nov. 22 per Entertainment Tonight Canada. "I'm arrogant of my dad, but I wanted to beryllium me, not conscionable his daughter. For that, I was acceptable to hold to interruption through."
The Mirror Mirror actress noted that she specifically didn't privation to travel successful her dad's philharmonic footsteps.
"I emotion to sing. But arsenic I wanted to marque my ain way, acold from the paternal genius, I preferred to beryllium an actress," she explained. "I played successful a fewer musicals due to the fact that it's the lone mounting successful which I let myself to sing. Frankly, I would beryllium excessively acrophobic of comparisons!"
The 33-year-old noted that acting jobs she didn't person led her to enactment harder and amended cleanable her craft.
"By dint of failed castings, I learned to absorption much connected my work, and I managed to marque acting my job," she recalled. "But I'm not resting connected my laurels: this situation is precise competitory and places are expensive."
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Lily is conscionable the latest to interaction connected the taxable of nepotism successful Hollywood, arsenic The Idol star Lily-Rose Depp—whose parents are Johny Depp and Vanessa Paradis—also spoke astir it during a Nov. 16 interrogation with Elle.
"The net seems to attraction a batch astir that benignant of stuff," she told Elle Nov. 16. "People are going to person preconceived ideas astir you oregon however you got there, and I tin decidedly accidental that thing is going to get you the portion but for being close for the part."
The 23-year-old added, "The net cares a batch much astir who your household is than the radical who are casting you successful things. Maybe you get your ft successful the door, but you inactive conscionable person your ft successful the door. There's a batch of enactment that comes aft that."
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