Jack Nicholson’s daughter opens up about life in Hollywood: ‘Even if your blockbuster fails’
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA: Jack Nicholson’s 36-year-old daughter, Lorraine Nicholson, takes a satirical tone to call out status-chasing elites in Los Angeles as she unravels life inside Hollywood in her latest essay.
Lorraine Nicholson, in her latest essay published in W Magazine, reveals how Los Angeles is taken over by status-chasing people and what benefits being from Hollywood brings.
People don’t interrupt ones from Hollywood
Writing about the life inside Los Angeles, an “anxiety capital of the world”, she explains what it exactly means to be rich and famous.
"Being somebody in Hollywood doesn’t just mean having a bigger house or a better job. It means that when you’re at a party, women won’t peer over your shoulder to see who else has arrived, and men won’t interrupt you in the middle of a story to get a drink," Nicholson wrote.
"It means that even if your latest blockbuster fails to perform, and regardless of whether you have a spot on the lot, you will always be treated with respect. It’s no wonder, then, that L.A. has established itself as the status-anxiety capital of the world, a city where people will chase clout to the grave."
Further writing about what living among clout-chasers actually looks like, Lorraine writes, “If you’re somebody in Hollywood, you work out. Even though you work out to be thin and attractive, you will never admit this”.
"You will tell people it’s to be healthy. Ten years ago, to brag about your Equinox membership or your spot in a Tracy Anderson class would have been perfectly acceptable.
"Today you will work out with a personal trainer in a private gym that looks like an S&M dungeon,” she added.
People have unrealistic standards on dating apps
Uncovering the dating game inside Hollywood, Lorraine said everyone is on the celebrity dating app, Raya. Taking a jibe, she further wrote that they compare others with an unrealistic version of themselves.
"If you are a woman, you will be compared to former Victoria’s Secret models and the women on 'Dancing With the Stars.' But do not retouch your photos — remember, if you do manage to match with someone, you do not want to go through the humiliation of being compared to the image of yourself that you created, and to which you will never be able to live up."
She ultimately writes about the shattering of expectations as the life of pretense does not serve the goal as one expects it will.
"These places do not complete your life in the way you hoped they would," Nicholson wrote.
“This is a city where people who have tasted the upper echelons of status understand how little it means.”
