- "I asked George if I could come and watch the shoot, and he asked if I wanted to be in the royal entourage. (...) I'm at the back with a hood on and you can't really see me. I don't even remember what my character was called."
- ―Sofia Coppola
Sofia Coppola (born May 14, 1971) is an American screenwriter, director, producer, and actor[1] who has a cameo as Saché, one of Queen Amidala's handmaidens, in the 1999 film Star Wars: Episode I The Phantom Menace.[3] She is the sister of Roman Coppola,[4] and daughter of director Francis Ford Coppola,[1] a longtime friend of George Lucas.[5] She is known for playing Mary Corleone in the 1990 film The Godfather Part III and for writing and directing titles such as the 1999 drama film The Virgin Suicides, the 2003 comedy-drama Lost in Translation, the 2006 historical drama Marie Antoinette and the 2017 thriller drama The Beguiled.[1]
Biography
Coppola considers director George Lucas, a long-time friend and working partner of her father Francis Ford Coppola, "like an uncle to me—he used to send me and my brother Roman Star Wars toys when we were little," and upon hearing he was going back to the saga, "thought it'd be so fun to see how they make them" as she was preparing her own directorial debut The Virgin Suicides, released that same year. When she asked Lucas if she could attend the shoot, he offered her the role of Saché, and she accepted as "it seemed like a good vantage point to watch without getting in the way."[2]
Sources
Notes and references
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8
Sofia Coppola on Encyclopædia Britannica (backup link archived on October 6, 2021)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Sofia Coppola: Film By Film. From The Godfather Part III to The Bling Ring by SemlYen, Phil de on Empire (February 7, 2013) (backup link archived on December 6, 2018)
- ↑ Star Wars: Episode I The Phantom Menace
- ↑ How Roman Coppola hopes to change the future of film using Blockchain by Wilson, Jack on The Age (August 14, 2023): "Not that the Coppola brand these days is about Francis alone. There's Roman's sister Sofia, director of The Virgin Suicides and Lost in Translation; their mother Eleanor has made films too, both documentary and fiction." (backup link archived on September 23, 2023)
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Francis Ford Coppola calls George Lucas's attachment to Star Wars franchise a pity by Bacle, Ariana on Entertainment Weekly (December 8, 2015): "Francis Ford Coppola and George Lucas go way back. They were friends long before either was famous, and Coppola was almost like a cool older brother who eventually helped get Lucas's first film, THX 1138, off the ground." (backup link archived on October 6, 2021)
