Was Sofia Coppola’s Teen Daughter’s Great Helicopter Escape Possible?
It really is tough out here for the children of the very famous and wealthy these days. This week, Romy Mars, the 16-year-old daughter of auteur film director Sofia Coppola and Thomas Mars, the lead singer of the indie pop band Phoenix, went viral for a TikTok she absolutely was not supposed to be making.
By now you’ve probably seen it: According to the New York Times, more people watched this TikTok than watched the finale of The Last of Us on HBO.
“My parents’ biggest rule is, like, I’m not allowed to have any public social media accounts,” Mars, filming in her kitchen and attempting a pasta recipe because she’s bored and being punished, begins in the since-deleted post. “I’m grounded because I tried to charter a helicopter from New York to Maryland on my dad’s credit card because I wanted to have dinner with my camp friend.”