'Stranger Things' star Maya Hawke says she deals with 'the nepotism thing' by taking the 'free' chances she gets and doing a good job with them

• Maya Hawke, whose parents are Ethan Hawke and Uma Thurman, said she's aware of "the nepotism thing."
• The actor and musician said that she works hard with the "free" opportunities she receives.

Maya Hawke said that having famous parents comes with "massive advantages in life," but that she works hard and doesn't take the chances that she gets for granted.

The actor and musician, who is the daughter of actors Ethan Hawke and Uma Thurman, said that she has "no idea" who she would be were she not the daughter of two celebrities. However, she told Rolling Stone that she's aware of the privileges that she's been afforded.

"I feel like the only way to handle the nepotism thing — which definitely gives you massive advantages in this life — is, you will get chances for free, but the chances will not be infinite," Hawke told Rolling Stone. "So you have to keep working and do a good job. If you do a bad job, the chances will stop. That's my ethos."

Hawke stars as Robin on the Netflix series "Stranger Things," which she joined during its third season in 2019.

Now, on the heels of the show's fourth season that concluded in July, Hawke is gearing up to release her next album "Moss" on September 23.

Her comments echo those that she made in a 2020 Nylon profile, where she said that she will "try as hard as I can to be brilliant" in the opportunities that she receives, because they'll stop "if I suck enough."

The actor told Rolling Stone that she deals with criticism related to nepotism by not interacting with "either the haters or the complimenters" regularly.

"I love this piece of advice I've gotten, which is that if you read the good reviews, they're partly true, and if you read the bad things that people say, they're also partly true," Hawke said. "You're not God's gift to humanity, nor are you a little dirty garbage wrap. You're neither and you're both."