“We try to honor our privilege.” Shyamalan’s daughters defend themselves against their “nepo baby” label and reveal how their father has helped them

The premiere of ‘The Watchers’ and the next ‘Trap’ puts family influence in Hollywood in the spotlight

Filmmaker M. Night Shyamalan releases ‘Trap’, a concert mystery, starring Josh Hartnett, on August 9. with songs and performances by Saleka Shyamalan, his daughter music. But that’s not all and another of her daughters, Ishana, who has followed in his footsteps behind the camera, has just released ‘The Watchers’, which hit theaters this weekend from Warner Bros.

Enlightened nepotism

In an atmosphere of creativity and collaboration, the multifaceted family faces the summer with reasons to be congratulated, and now, in a recent interview with The New York Times, the Shyamalan sisters talked about the lucky moment they met and his family dynamic, according to Saleka, who did not want to go to the conservatory and prefers to compose his own work, his confidence towards music was discouraging for his father.

“I think once he saw that I was passionate about it the same way he was passionate about film, he understood it and was like, okay, I’m with you, let’s make this happen. He’s a very involved father. I feel like, in a way, “We’ve always done it, ever since we were growing up, experiencing things together, so it feels good even if I didn’t plan it.”

His father placed a lot of importance on staying together and pursuing their dreams, but now, the environment is increasingly hostile towards nepo-babiesbut that hasn’t slowed down the girls’ hunger for, according to Ishana, the balance between their identity and their career:

“It’s really about living up to that privilege and honoring it with as hard a work ethic as we can, being as good a person as we can and pushing ourselves to the highest standards we can.”

Also speaking to The New York Times, Night attributed her active involvement in seeing her daughters succeed to her sense of traditionalism.

“We are a classic Asian Indian family, but perhaps the slightly interesting difference is that instead of directing her towards medicine, or engineering, or law – her only three options -, we direct her towards the arts. Codifying a process is the difficult, because in those fields those steps are already predestined and mapped out for you, while this is amorphous. As a parent, you never want them to get hurt,” he says. “So to see them reach the limit and overcome it for these two projects. .. It was hard”.

Night may have helped Ishana get where she wanted, but, Comparing their approaches to cinema, Ishana says: