{"id":114414,"date":"2024-07-27T03:07:25","date_gmt":"2024-07-27T03:07:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/27\/francis-ford-coppola-sexually-harassed-female-extras-on-the-set-of-megalopolis\/"},"modified":"2024-07-27T03:07:25","modified_gmt":"2024-07-27T03:07:25","slug":"francis-ford-coppola-sexually-harassed-female-extras-on-the-set-of-megalopolis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/27\/francis-ford-coppola-sexually-harassed-female-extras-on-the-set-of-megalopolis\/","title":{"rendered":"Francis Ford Coppola sexually harassed female extras on the set of Megalopolis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">A video of Francis Ford Coppola kissing and grabbing female extras on the set of \u2018MEGALOPOLIS\u2019 has surfaced online.<\/p>\n<p>After multiple takes, Coppola reportedly got on a microphone and announced to the room: \u201cSorry, if I come up to you and kiss you. Just know it\u2019s solely for my\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/OBtRRDNVk1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">pic.twitter.com\/OBtRRDNVk1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Film Updates (@FilmUpdates) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FilmUpdates\/status\/1816911042980487565?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">July 26, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/p>\n<ul><\/p>\n<li>Videos surfaced of Coppola grabbing the extras and kissing them<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>The actresses had been specifically told they would be\u00a0in a scene in which they were topless or scantily clad. It was a club scene in which there were 200 extras<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>Coppola jumped into shots and kissed and groped some of\u00a0these women <\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>2 pro Coppola sources went on the record, one to claim Coppola was trying to energize the cast, the other to claim the set was professional<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>Another anonymous source however said that directors usually, you know, direct and simply tell actors &#8220;High energy&#8221;. They say they have never been on a set where directors or crew touch the actors<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>Coppola hired intimacy coordinators who were not on set for that scene<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>The entire movie was self-funded by Coppola meaning there was no HR or typical checks and balances to prevent this kind of harassment<\/li>\n<p><\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/FilmUpdates\/status\/1816911042980487565\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">source<\/a> <\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/ohnotheydidnt.livejournal.com\/128877531.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A video of Francis Ford Coppola kissing and grabbing female extras on the set of \u2018MEGALOPOLIS\u2019 has surfaced online. After multiple takes, Coppola reportedly got on a microphone and announced to the room: \u201cSorry, if I come up to you and kiss you. Just know it\u2019s solely for my\u2026 pic.twitter.com\/OBtRRDNVk1 \u2014 Film Updates (@FilmUpdates) July [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":114415,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-114414","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hollywood"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114414\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}