What about the gossip that Charlotte is supposed to be Coppola herself, Charlotte's intense photographer husband is supposed to be her husband and the giddy model is a representation of actress Cameron Diaz. "I put some of that into the character of Charlotte in my movie." "It was just a really hard period in the early 20s and knowing what do," she says. When she finally moved on to film- making, all the trips she'd taken to Tokyo became the inspiration for "Lost in Translation." On the money she made, she was able to try painting and photography and television. When she was 16, she designed the costumes for the short "Life Without Zoe," her father's contribution to the movie, "New York Stories." Just out of school, Sofia Coppola and her best friend just assumed they could start a clothing business, and they did. "What I learned from my dad is it helps to have, you know, a little side business that you can make your living at so, you know, pursue creative things." "There is like a disease in my family of starting little businesses," says Sofia Coppola. For someone whose family markets a sparkling wine named after her, it seemed like a very Coppola thing to do to follow her interests in pursuit of her life's work. Home base for Sofia Coppola was always the picturesque Victorian house at the winery in Napa Valley, one of Francis Ford Coppola's other businesses. It also set her on the road to directing. "I remember there was some magazine cover that said, 'Did she ruin her father's film?' It was just so public, so that was a drag at that age." "You're already feeling awkward," she says of the experience.
SPIKE JONZE SOFIA COPPOLA HER LOST IN TRANSLATION MOVIE
If you want to see Sofia Coppola growing up, go rent "Rumblefish" or "The Godfather: Part III," the movie that ended her acting career at the age of 18, when the critics trashed her performance. "I don't know if I'm that tough, but you do try to put yourself on the line," says Sofia Coppola.Ĭoppola family home movies aren't like other people's. Her father was willing to mortgage everything he had and go through incredible pain and soul-searching so that the film he wanted would come out right. And, Sofia would go to the set and go to the costume department and they would sew clothes for her dolls and make her stuffed animals. "They weren't aware of the complications and the difficulties. "I think the children really had a wonderful time," says Eleanor Coppola. It was a lesson in commitment to art that Sofia Coppola didn't know she was learning at the time.
Her mother, Eleanor Coppola, chronicled the incredibly star-crossed production, which had Francis Ford Coppola risking ruin to make the movie he wanted to make. The 6-year-old Sofia Coppola can be seen in the documentary "Hearts of Darkness" on her way to the Philippines, where the family lived while her father was shooting "Apocalypse Now."
"Here's this little six year old that had, you know was controlling the situation." "When she was about six, I remember Ellie and I were having, you know, the typical marital argument in a car, and we're shouting at each other and stuff, and all of a sudden we hear, 'cut,'" laughs Francis Ford Coppola. Sofia Coppola says she's comfortable on a film set because of her time spent at her father's place of work. And also, I would put them in the films all the time." " something that would be supplemental to their education, which I realized I was damaging by taking them out of their regular school. "We had three children and all of them were there and in every picture," says Francis Ford Coppola. Sofia Coppola was the baby christened in the last scene of her father's film, "The Godfather." Talk about being born into the family business. In it, actor Bill Murray was quoted as saying, "She has been able to reinvent what her last name represents."
And of course, there was the New York Times magazine cover story. She's been turning up in magazines like Vanity Fair, wrapped around a large bottle of perfume by her favorite fashion designer, Marc Jacobs. There was the piece in the Washington Post and two whole pages in Vogue about her. Sofia Coppola wrote and directed "Lost in Translation." It grossed more than $30 million, and four months after it's release, it's still in theaters.
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