Francis Ford Coppola says the backlash over daughter Sofia Coppola’s performance in “Godfather Part III” is entirely misplaced.
The father-daughter directing duo talked with the New York Times to reflect on the dump-truck of criticism unloaded upon Sofia by critics and audience members.
Sofia, a teenager at the time, filled in for a sick Winona Ryder as Michael Corleone’s daughter Mary. It was a quick turnaround and Sofia was doing her father a favour. “It seemed like he was under a lot of pressure and I was helping out,” Sofia recalled. “There was this panic and before I knew it, I was in a makeup chair in Cinecittà Studios in Rome having my hair dyed…I wasn’t taking things super-seriously.
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