She adds an extra string to her bow. Actress and director Sofia Coppola will find herself behind the camera during the filming of her very first series, according to the American site Variety . For the streaming platform Apple TV +, the daughter of Francis Ford Coppola is working on the serial adaptation of the book Les belles marriages by the American author Edith Wharton, also known by her original name, The Custom of the Country.
The novel, published in 1913 (and for the first time in France in 1964) portrays the life of Undine Spragg, a young girl with ambition from the Midwest who, at the beginning of the 20th century, tried to climb the ladder in society New Yorker. "Undine Spragg is my favorite literary anti-heroine and I'm delighted to bring it to the screen for the first time," said Sofia Coppola.
A first film on Apple TV +
This is not the first time that Sofia Coppola has collaborated with Apple TV +. The director of Virgin Suicides is at the helm of the feature film On The Rocks , not yet available on the platform. She plays Rashida Jones and Bill Murray, actor who was already playing in Lost in Translation . This performance had then earned him a nomination for the Oscar for best actor in 2004.
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