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 Authentic Music.
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 Nineteen Eighties to the 2010s, and earlier this 12 months, a clip of Maggie in an episode of Buddies made the rounds on social media.
It’s not unusual for Hollywood celebrities to have gotten their begin because of household connections, and the revelation that Maggie had appeared — albeit very briefly — in such a serious TV present led followers to surprise if Billie and Finneas might have benefited from the same leg-up.
Nevertheless, in a brand new interview with Glamour, Maggie mentioned this was not the case, clarifying that her performing profession wasn’t almost as profitable as followers may need assumed.
“I believe it’s hilarious,” Maggie mentioned, addressing all of the chatter across the Buddies 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 received that episode of Buddies 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 residing, and it afforded us loads of time with our children, which was superior.”
Recalling her time working in Hollywood, Maggie addressed the misperception that being a full-time actor all the time means you’re making a ton of cash out of your work.
“I believe that folks don’t actually perceive there’s a complete business of people who find themselves artistic and so they’re working and so they’re struggling, and so they make completely pleased lives, and so they really feel artistic, and so they really feel fulfilled,” she informed the outlet.