The discourse reached its apex with a 2022 New York Magazine cover, “The Year of the Nepo Baby,” in which a photo of Platt was photoshopped onto a baby’s body.Īt the time, Platt appeared wounded by the criticism of the film, telling Rolling Stone, “People having opinions about me that don’t know me makes me so anxious. Then came the backlash: in 2021, a trailer for the film adaptation for Dear Evan Hansen was met with widespread opprobrium, with many TikTok teens brutally lambasting the then-27-year-old Platt for being too old for the role.Īdding insult to injury, the release of Dear Evan Hansen coincided with the advent of the nepo baby conversation, with many on social media pointing out that the film had been produced by Marc Platt, Ben’s father and the producer of films like Legally Blonde. He parlayed that early success into a recording contract and a starring role as a smarmy sociopathic high schooler in Ryan Murphy’s The Politician, a show that was met with lukewarm reviews but launched Platt into the mainstream consciousness. Platt was cast as the intensely troubled Evan Hansen in the hit musical Dear Evan Hansen, winning a Tony at the age of 23 for his performance. The prodigiously talented tenor grew up with fellow L.A.-based theater kid Molly Gordon and BFF Beanie Feldstein, attending a performing arts school and appearing in the ultimate theater kid role as Winthrop in a Hollywood Bowl production of The Music Man starring Kristin Chenoweth. In many ways, Ben Platt is one of the most successful theater kids of our time, third only to Lin-Manuel Miranda and Taylor Swift (proof of this ignominious past can be found here and here).
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