The Coppola Family Matriarch, in Her Own Words |
For decades, the quiet strength and guiding hand behind the Coppola dynasty was Eleanor Coppola, who met Francis Ford Coppola while serving as an assistant art director on his debut film, 1963’s Dementia 13. Throughout their 61-year marriage, Eleanor often inserted herself as a background observer of her husband’s and children’s creative pursuits, making documentaries like Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker’s Apocalypse, about Francis’s Apocalypse Now, as well as behind-the-scenes looks at Sofia Coppola’s Marie Antoinette and Virgin Suicides. But Eleanor takes center stage this month with her posthumous memoir, Two of Me: Notes on Living and Leaving. Elise Taylor speaks exclusively with Sofia and Roman Coppola about their mother’s long-overdue spotlight.
Elsewhere in HWD, Chris Murphy investigates how true to life Netflix’s new historical drama Death by Lightning is; Rebecca Ford talks to Jon M. Chu as Wicked: For Good prepares to hit theaters; Meghan Markle teases her upcoming Netflix holiday special; and, in other Wicked news, Cynthia Erivo reunites with a lost accessory. |
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