My New Favorite Nepo Baby Is Sofia Coppola’s Daughter
Celebrity offspring TikToks are my favorite social media genre. If you make a video of your mother, Laura Dern, dancing to Doja Cat, that is undeniably charming. When you dress up as your father, Kanye West, and lip-synch “Bound 2” with your mom, Kim Kardashian, that is obviously a work of genius. Last September, Gideon Grody-Patinkin quizzed his dad, Mandy Patinkin, on the purpose of TikTok, and I applauded despite being alone in my living room.
The scions of these A-listers give us a peek behind the curtain, relying on a mutual intimacy to reveal a sillier, less on-brand version of their high-wattage relative. It’s a rarity in such a mediated digital world, which has habituated us to sanitized, strictly curated celebrity communiqués.
But even within such a delightful category, the work of Romy Mars — the daughter of Sofia Coppola and Phoenix lead singer Thomas Mars — stands out. In a now-deleted TikTok that went viral on Twitter (the video has 38 million views there and counting), Romy delivered a bravura performance.
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“Make a vodka sauce pasta with me because I’m grounded,” Romy says at the beginning of the video, her voice sped up so it sounds eerily frantic. Incredible. Why was she 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,” she continues, a veritable roller coaster of facts. And despite the potential yuckiness in a rich kid’s nonchalant money-flaunting, her rebellious teen spirit softens the Hollywood untouchability of that escapade.
