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- Sofia Coppola confirmed she filmed Lost in Translation scenes guerrilla-style without permits in Tokyo, specifically Scarlett Johansson's subway scenes and an overhead shot of the Shibuya crossing captured from inside a Starbucks whose view the crew exploited because they 'would have never got permission to film there.'
- Eleanor Coppola filmed approximately 80 hours of behind-the-scenes footage during the production of Marie Antoinette, which Coppola said she had 'forgot about' until recently — describing the unreleased cache as 'a real treat' and 'a home movie to revisit' she 'never thought we would do something with.'
- Sofia Coppola directed the White Stripes' music video for "I Just Don't Know What to Do With Myself," in which Kate Moss pole dances for three minutes; Coppola said the concept was her own idea and credited Moss and the band for being 'on board.'
- Sofia Coppola appeared in Tim Burton's 1984 short film Frankenweenie at age 12, when Burton was fresh out of school and would draw for her on set — an experience she described as her first time being 'on someone else's' film set rather than her father Francis Ford Coppola's.
- Marie Antoinette (the film) used postmodern and new romantic music — including Bow Wow Wow and Adam Ant — because Coppola wanted to convey that the historical Marie Antoinette was 14 when she arrived at Versailles and effectively a teenager, mirroring the soundtrack of Coppola's own adolescence.
- Bill Murray continues to refuse revealing what his character Bob whispers to Scarlett Johansson's Charlotte at the end of Lost in Translation, telling Coppola it's 'between them' — a stance Coppola echoed by saying, 'I'll leave it at that.'
Why it matters: The interview surfaces previously undocumented production details, most notably Eleanor Coppola's approximately 80 hours of Marie Antoinette behind-the-scenes footage — described by Sofia Coppola as material she 'never thought we would do something with,' and which now exists as a potential unreleased project sitting in her family's archive.
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