Reeves Weidemann

I recently disgraced myself in front of Lin-Manuel Miranda.

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My name is Reeves Weidemann, and I'm a features writer at New York Magazine.

Well, the only credit I'll give David Ellison in the scheme of Nepo babies is he did go into a completely different industry than his dad.

He took his dad's money, maybe more money than any Nepo baby has taken, tens of billions of dollars at this point, of tech money and is now pouring it into Hollywood.

He talks about how as a kid, he loved the movies, like many kids do.

He went to the movies with his mom every weekend, did sort of movie marathons.

And he actually went to college for business, but quickly figured out that was actually not what he wanted to do.

He wanted to go to film school.

went to film school at USC, and initially he was trying to kind of do any and everything.

He was interested in acting, interested in writing, directing maybe, and his first foray into Hollywood was acting in a movie, a World War I movie starring James Franco.

And the way that David Ellison got this role was his dad's money.

And basically, to put it bluntly, I mean, David had gotten a connection to these people making this movie.

Larry had contributed a lot of the money for the budget.

And lo and behold, David got a role in the film.

And so I don't think moguldom was necessarily in the cards at the very beginning.

But from his earliest days, David did want to be in Hollywood in some way.

How was his big debut in Flyboys?

Was it was it well received?

It was not great.