Sofia Coppola finally addresses 16-year-old daughter Romy’s widely-mocked TikTok about being grounded for chartering a HELICOPTER: Director brushes off scandal and praises teen’s ‘filmmaking and comedy’
Director Sofia Coppola has shared her reaction to teen daughter Romy’s viral TikTok video, in which she mocked the fact that she was grounded for trying to charter a helicopter from New York to Maryland using her father’s credit card.
Thanks to the quickly deleted video, which the 16-year-old posted in March, Romy was labeled the ‘Ultimate nepo baby” as she joked that she would spend her time at home making a vodka pasta sauce – even though she didn’t know the difference between garlic and onion.
Looking back at her daughter’s very public rebellion in a new interview, Sofia admitted that her child had known it was the “best way” to anger her parents.
Marie Antoinette’s filmmaker, 52, told The Hollywood reporterWe were raised so privately and social media is so the opposite of how I grew up. So it was the best way for her to rebel.”
Sofia Coppola has finally shared her reaction to her teenage daughter Romy’s viral TikTok video mocking the fact that she was grounded for trying to charter a helicopter
Romy, 16, uploaded a clip to TikTok in March to reveal she had tried to charter a helicopter from New York to Maryland using her father’s credit card so she could attend a dinner party
Sofia – the daughter of acclaimed director Francis Ford Coppola – revealed that it had been noticed that the family’s talent for storytelling and filmmaking had clearly manifested itself in the next generation.
She continued, “I got a lot of compliments on her film work. And comedy. She’s funny. But people publicly discussing my parenting are not what I had hoped for.”
The clip shows Romy trying to while away the hours of house arrest by creating a storm in the kitchen – before she Bizarrely, she introduced viewers to her “replacement parents,” claiming that hers were never home.
In the video, Romy — whose parents are filmmaker Coppola and Thomas Mars, lead singer of the indie pop band Phoenix — was seen talking to the camera from her family’s kitchen as she got ready to make the vodka pasta sauce — before embarking on a series of revelations .
She began, “I was grounded for trying to charter a helicopter from New York to Maryland with my dad’s credit card because I wanted to have dinner with my camp friend.”
The teenager, who has a sister of twelve, then gets ready to cook, but quickly admits: ‘I don’t know the difference between a garlic and an onion.
“All I have to do is google images of onions on my phone. I am ashamed.’
Romy continued, “I also thought I would do this, because I’m already grounded, because my parents’ biggest rule is that I can’t have any public social media accounts…
Romy’s parents are the famous filmmaker Coppola (pictured together) and Thomas Mars, singer of the indie pop band Phoenix
She joked that she would spend her time at home making a vodka pasta sauce, even though she didn’t know the difference between garlic and onion.
“Because they don’t want me to be a nepotism kid, but TikTok isn’t going to make me famous, so it doesn’t really matter.”
She then held one of her ingredients up to the screen and said, “Wait, is this an onion?” Because I feel like this doesn’t look like an onion.’
The camera then cut to show her nanny’s boyfriend petting the family dog.
Romy said, “This is Ari… my parents are never home, so these are my substitute parents.”
As it turned out, she then asked Ari to go to the store to buy ingredients for her before the clip came to an end.
At one point, the camera cut to show her nanny’s boyfriend petting the family dog before claiming her parents were “never home”
Fortunately, other social media users were able to see the funny side of the snippet when they rushed to the comments section to share their thoughts
Fortunately, other social media users were able to see the funny side of the snippet when they rushed to the comments section to share their thoughts.
One said, “Sofia Coppola won an Academy Award and a Golden Globe award, but somehow couldn’t teach her daughter what a shallot is.”
Another joked, “Sofia Coppola’s daughter is the way you handle nepotism right.”
And a third wrote, “Why did Sofia Coppola’s daughter remove this. It’s art.’