She just wants us to know that she was grounded for chartering a helicopter without permission
Sofia Coppola and Thomas Mars’ daughter, Romy Mars, has become an overnight star thanks to an extremely powerful TikTok. In the video, she admits she was grounded for trying to charter a helicopter without permission. Then she breaks up some ingredients for a pasta sauce as the video gets more and more chaotic. She’s also apparently banned from having “public social media accounts,” but implies that since she’s already grounded, why not break that rule too?
The now-deleted TikTok was saved for the story on Twitter as user @savbrads’ upload of the video went viral.
The TikTok begins on a high note: “Make me a vodka sauce pasta because I’m grounded for trying to charter a helicopter from New York to Maryland on my dad’s credit card because I’m with my camp boyfriend wanted to have dinner,” she says to the camera.
She then makes an objectively perfect admission, sharing that she’s confusing onions and garlic — a quick shot of her grimacing smile and a cleaver midway through the footage — and that she has to Google the difference between the two. Then she cuts up a shallot.
On TikTok, she says not to have a publicly-facing social media account lest people see her as a Nepo baby — followed by a smash cut of her with a Grammy, believed to belong to her father, the band’s frontman Phoenix. But “TikTok isn’t going to make me famous,” she assures viewers. That’s decidedly wrong, especially considering the last 15 seconds of the video, in which she compares the cross-section of a shallot to “the inner workings of a ballsa” (it cuts out) and then turns the camera on a person she says is Ari, her babysitter’s boyfriend, because “my parents are never home, so they’re my surrogate parents.”
She and Ari then joke that she shouldn’t be referring to her “helicopter fiasco” — she should call it a fiasco because that’s the feminine conjugation and it’s Women’s History Month.
The whole TikTok is a fever dream, a cinematic masterpiece from start to finish. Sofia Coppola, who has directed maximalist cult classics like Marie Antoinette and The Bling Ring, should be – dare I say it – proud. Or maybe not since her daughter is grounded, you know, and obviously doesn’t have permission to post public TikToks either. And then there’s the part where she calls her mom because she’s “never been home” and lets her babysitter’s boyfriend (who seems lovely, I have to say) raise her.
In classic TikTok form, the video promises a part 2 where we can actually see her making the pasta sauce. But given the deletion of this video, I kinda doubt that will happen. But if it does, I’ll be in line first to watch.
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