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SOFIA COPPOLA WAS FIVE YEARS OLD IN 1977 WHEN HER FATHER, FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA — FRESH OFF THE WILD SHOOT FOR APOCALYPSE NOW — INTERVIEWED HER.
‘I’m a little fishy, and I swim in the water and have two brothers who are fishies,’ she said, before counting in Cantonese. Later, father asked daughter to record a message for her future self. ‘I am Sofia,’ she said. ‘And when I grow up, I want to be a teacher or a nurse. I like being Sofia, because there’s a lot of fun things that I know how to do.’
Forty-three years later, Sofia is on a Zoom call from Napa in California, where her family is and where she grew up. ‘Oh, my God,’ she says, reminded of the recording. ‘Yes, my dad interviewed me when I was a little
