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Even people like Tom Holland, his dad (Dominic) is fairly well known in the UK.
He's not mega rich or influential, but once you've got a few million in the bank and can afford to send them to acting school, and for far away auditions, that's a massive leg up on everyone else.
Just look at all the former members of the Footlights club. They're not nepo babies exactly, and most are talented in their own right, but their parents still had the money to send them to Cambridge.
I can't really blame them for it, because almost everyone wants their kid to do well in life. But it does rub your nose in it when anyone says "hard work will get you anywhere", when 99.9% of hard workers are wage slaves.