Harlow Jane and Patricia Arquette.Photo:Gisela Schober/Getty
Gisela Schober/Getty
High Desertstar Harlow Jane now embraces following in her famous parentsPatricia ArquetteandThomas Jane’s footsteps — but it wasn’t always the path she envisioned for herself.
“I definitely rebelled against it for as long as I could,” Harlow, 20, tells PEOPLE. “I remember in first or second grade, we had a career person come to school and I told them that I wanted to be a lawyer.”
But everything changed for Harlow when she began attending a “very arts-heavy” boarding school as a teen and it became clear that acting was simply in her blood.
“That’s when I decided, ‘Yeah, I don’t know if I cannotdo this anymore for the rest of my life,’” she recalls. “I can’t live a lie of wanting to be anything else.”
Harlow Jane at premiere of “Murder At Yellowstone City”.Michael Tullberg/Getty
Michael Tullberg/Getty
It’s no surprise Harlow couldn’t resist emulating her parents given their range and accomplishments — her mother, 55, has earned an Oscar and multiple Golden Globe and Emmy Awards for her turns inBoyhood,True Romance,Bringing Out the Dead, Medium,The ActandSeverance. And her father, 54, made a name for himself — and racked up his own three Golden Globe nominations — for his work on projects includingHung,The Punisher,The MistandThe Expanse.
That said, Harlow admits that the day-to-day experience of life in the business wasn’t exactly thrilling to her when she was younger.
“Being on set, part of me was bored, because whatever your parent does … it’s not exciting — especially when you’re a teenager,” Harlow says. “You’re going through life stages. You don’t see the value in what your parents are doing.”
“But,” she adds, “I loved going withmy mominto the makeup trailer, and I loved watching on the screens. I loved watching the director work. And I never wanted to admit it because I was like, ‘It’s lame.’”
“I did not want to become another actor,” she continues. “But I couldn’t help but secretly love it.”
“I think people who are artists and creative, we’re pretty prone to our big emotions,” she shares. “But also, it was beautiful. It was great. I’m lucky to have grown up around so much art and creation and creativity. It was a general spirit of playfulness, even today.”
Plus, Harlow adds that her father is pretty “thrilled” that she’s taking a cue from him professionally.
“He would never admit it, but he is very, very excited,” theHigh Desertstar says. “He’s thrilled because his whole side of the family, they’re all scientists. They’re really, really intelligent people, but they’re not so much into the arts. And so I think for him, having a daughter that has the same interests as his, he gets so happy.”
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