Pullman ― who appeared in “Top Gun: Maverick” (2022), earned an Emmy nomination for “Lessons in Chemistry” (2023) and starred on the Amazon Prime sci-fi-western “Outer Range” (2022-24) — didn’t identify specific projects his dad’s pull may have helped on. But he made it clear the reputation of his pop, who’s perhaps best known for “Independence Day,” has been an asset.

 

 

“It would be a bummer if he was a bad actor or an asshole and I had to talk about him all the time, you know, and try and follow that,” Lewis Pullman said to THR. “Every set I go to, somebody has worked with my dad and they love him so much and so I’m like, it’s a hard reputation to follow, you know, flying in his wake. I’m always reminded of how incredibly generous and kind and talented he is.”

E! News noted that the young Pullman, 32, was rumored at one point to be dating another celebrity with famous parents, model and actor Kaia Gerber, whose mother is supermodel Cindy Crawford and father is tequila and club entrepreneur Rande Gerber.

She, too, seems to have embraced the “nepo baby” label.

“I personally am very aware of all the wonderful things it has done for me, and I would never, ever say anything