Why Patricia Arquette's Daughter Harlow Jane Feared Becoming an Actor

Why Patricia Arquette's Daughter Harlow Jane Feared Following in Her Family's Footsteps

Harlow Jane knows she has big—not medium—shoes to fill.

The 23-year-old credited her mom Patricia Arquette for fueling her blossoming acting career, which has culminated in her latest major role in The Five Star Weekend, debuting on Peacock July 9. However, picking up the acting torch from the Oscar winner was a move Harlow admittedly didn't take lightly.

"The truth of it was, I was just too scared to try it, and I was too scared of failing," Harlow exclusively told E! News’ Erin Lim Rhodes at the Five Star Weekend premiere in Los Angeles July 8. "I was too scared of being bad at it."

After all, Harlow's role model has held several iconic TV roles, including Allison DuBois in Medium and Harmony Cobel in Severance. Plus, Harlow comes from a large family of entertainers, with aunt Rosanna Arquette, uncle David Arquette and her father Thomas Jane all with illustrious careers of their own.

As Harlow quipped, "I didn't want to be the one in the family that sucks—and I still could be, you never know!"

But the actress—who costars alongside Jennifer Garner, Regina Hall, Chloë Sevigny and D'Arcy Carden in the TV adaptation of the Elin Hilderbrand novel—eventually embraced her desire to follow in her family's footsteps.

"I took a high school drama class," Harlow explained, "and that sort of ignited a fire in me."

Since then, she’s shared the screen with her mom and dad in High Desert and Dig, respectively.

As for how Harlow is navigating her career in Hollywood? She’s looking to her mom for guidance.

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"She is doing her best to instill in me a sense of inner confidence that I don't think I naturally have," Harlow admitted. "She has been really helping me to find that."

She added of Patricia, "She's so grateful. She moves through every day with so much [gratitude] for where she is and who she is and who she's become through all the work that she's done in her life.”

Keep reading to see more stars and their mini-me kids.

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