In Cannes, all eyes are on Megalopolis, Francis Ford Coppola’s divisive and endlessly discussed new epic (and the most surreal screening British Vogue’s film and culture editor has ever attended)—but his granddaughter did briefly threaten to steal his thunder at the festival. On Thursday evening, Romy Mars, teenage daughter of Sofia Coppola and her musician husband Thomas Mars, quietly made her red-carpet debut at the event. She joined her filmmaker grandfather and members of the film’s cast outside the famous Grand Théâtre Lumière.
Lost in Translation director Sofia Coppola’s two daughters, Romy and the younger Cosima (who was not in Cannes), have been raised away from the spotlight (save for, in 17-year-old Romy’s case, the obligatory appearance in a Marc Jacobs campaign, and a brush with viral fame last year when she documented her attempt to charter a helicopter using her dad’s credit card in a now deleted TikTok). “I don’t want them to ever feel jaded and I’ve never seen the value of taking kids to premieres or things like that,” Coppola told The Guardian of her daughters in 2017.