Actress Eve Hewson has opened up about the reason why she didn’t follow her father’s footsteps into the music industry.
Speaking to Town & Country magazine, she revealed, “I thought I was going to go into music, but I was terrible at practising.
“When I started acting, I realised I could spend all day long going over lines, reading scripts, doing different exercises, and it didn’t feel like work at all. Practising music did.”
Eve then admitted she was a “little troublemaker” when she was younger, adding, “There got to a point in my teens when my dad couldn’t hire good-looking support bands any more. “He was like ‘No more boys in their 20s, please God!'”
Eve added that both of her parents were slightly hesitant about her entering the music industry, continuing: “There was the fear that I would go off to LA and become some celebrity kid running around on Rodeo Drive.
“I think any parent bringing up a kid in a certain lifestyle would have those fears.”
This comes after Eve opened up about her relationship with her father. Speaking to the Irish Mirror she said, “I always say my dad’s a crazy stage mom with me. Whenever we’re out, he’s always introducing me and talking about my work.
“He gives my full IMDb credits to whoever we’re having dinner with. And my mom is very supportive too, so that‘s really nice.”
Eve plays the role of a single mother in ‘Behind Her Eyes‘, who gets caught up in a dark world when she begins an affair with her psychiatrist boss. The second eldest of Bono and wife Ali’s four children, she admits that being surrounded by her dad and other creative minds made it inevitable that she too would gravitate towards the spotlight.
“I was always surrounded by really artistic, inspiring people and that’s really rubbed off on me”
“It’s hard to be around such a family like mine, where there’s so much going on, and not get that bug. I had an amazing childhood.”