Bono’s daughter Eve Hewson calls fame ‘dumbest thing’ as she details realities of growing up with rockstar dad

Growing up the daughter of a famous rock star has made Eve Hewson ambivalent to fame, even if she works in showbiz.

The Disclosure Day actress, 34, is the daughter of Bono and his wife Ali Stewart, who have been married since 1982 and are also parents to daughter Jordan, 37, and sons Elijah, 26, and John, 25. 

And though she made a conscious decision to follow in her father’s footsteps and pursue a career in entertainment, thanks to him, she can stay level headed about it.

Speaking with The Sunday Times, Eve reflected on growing up a “nepo baby,” alternating weeks on the road with her dad and as a regular student at school.

“You go away and have a sort of unbelievable fantasy life,” she said of touring with her dad. “And then you come back and take the train to school in the rain and see your friends and do your homework.”

“I make all these friendships with these people for six months and then go back to my regular life,” she continued, noting: “I think it set me up for being able to manage it.”

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Also reflecting on the early days of her career, entering the entertainment industry the daughter of someone already so famous within it, she recalled: “It was just, like, people really don’t take you seriously,” admitting: “When you’re going into castings and meeting with directors, you can really feel that. So you have to power through.”

“It’s definitely easier to get into the business, harder to be taken seriously. And that’s fine,” she added, further sharing how, though she is certainly passionate about her career, her unique entry into the industry took fame “off of a pedestal for me.”

“It’s the dumbest thing on the planet to want to be famous. You’re losing all your privacy. You’re putting yourself up for so much criticism. I don’t know why we celebrate it so much,” she maintained.

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Still, she is far less cynical when it comes to what motivated her to become an actress despite fame’s pitfalls. 

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“I got to spend two weeks on this movie set and that was it,” she said of her time filming The 27 Club, a 2008 indie film, in North Carolina when she was 15 years old.

“I had one mission in life and it was to be an actor,” she said. “I think it was the community feeling of everybody working really hard on one thing. We’re all working on this thing we care about. Everyone’s creative. Everyone has a voice.”