happy belated birthday miss coppola!

On May 14 Sofia turned 40!! So happy bday to our favourite filmmaker with a precious recopilation of images from her films, thanks for the video M!!♥

marie-antoinette trivia (l)

Since there are no new Sofia news, I will continue with the movie trivia:

- This movie was going to be produced before 'Lost in Translation' (2003), but while Sofia was writing the screenplay struggling with historical truth and an imposing gallery of characters, she started creating another story in order to distract herself from the difficult enterprise. This parallel project - a small Japanese story - became 'Lost in Translation', whose planetary success revamped the 'Marie-Antoinette' production.

- Ladurée was chosen by Sofia Coppola to make all of the brightly colored pastries and cakes for the film.

- Sofia had originally wanted Angelina Jolie for the role of Madame Du Barry, but turned it down to star in 'The Good Sheperd', then Catherine Zeta-Jones was considered. The role eventually went to Asia Argento.

- Jason Schwartzman, who plays King Louis XVI, is Sofia's cousin.

- Was ranked #3 on US Weekly's "Top Ten Films of 2006".

- The men playing guitars in the scene with a woman signing for Marie are members of the group Phoenix, the lead singer of which is dating Sofia and is father of her daughters Romy and Cosima.

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"My dad did this summer where he wanted us all to do one-act plays. It was called Creativity Camp, and we had to all make something. It was my dad's place, so the cousins were all there. We were kind of bitching about it. That's when I first worked with Jason [Schwartzman], I asked him to be in my play, and he stole the whole show. That's when we realized that Jason was an actor. When my friend Wes Anderson was casting 'Rushmore' I said, 'Oh you have to meet my cousin Jason'".

And that's how Jason started to be an actor.

Sofia's femmes

"The characters in my films are adolescents but nevertheless, a little older with each film and in fact, I am thinking of continuing in this direction."

My heart just jumped when I read this new interview, more Sofia girls coming... the way she only knows how to portray them.

Sofia's influences

Even someone so inspirational like her has her own influences, or details that can be applied to other artists, delicious taste!

"These scenes were very hard to film. The little girl was delightful and a really pleasure to film but she was completely terrified by Kirsten's costume. We literally had to film her for hours to get the few moments that appear in the film."

The petite abelle darling.

Have you ever been with a Russian?

Rose Byrne & Kirsten Dunst in "Marie Antoinette".

People, this is something very exciting, well, the /rose__byrne account was deactivated (damn you, fotolog!) but her lovely owner /go_drew_barrymore has opened another Rose flog and we will manage it together. So if you love this great Aussie actress you have to add http://www.fotolog.com/rosebyrne1 instantly!

Sofia's boys: Volume III

Cousin Jason Schwartzman.

It's all in the family. Jason wasn't interested in acting, he then was a drummer in Phantom Planet, the band behind The OC´s main song "California", but Sofia introduced him to Wes Anderson's casting director, and it was a success because Jason got the main role on his film Rushmore. And since then he hasn't stopped working, including being directed by his cousin on Marie-Antoinette and last year he teamed with Sofia's brother Roman to co-write with Wes Anderson his new flick 'The Darjeeling Limited'.

Talent runs in the family!

Sofia with Marianne Faithfull & Diane Kruger at Chanel's runway show during the Paris fashion week.
January 22, 2008

Nice to see her back with Marianne! She played Maria Teresa, Marie-Antoinette's mother in the film. Grande actrice!