Original title: Sofia Coppola Prepares to Premiere Her Intimate Portrait of Friend Marc Jacobs in Venice, But “I Didn’t Want It to Be About Me”
Sofia Coppola‘s intimate portrait of fashion designer and her long-time friend Marc Jacobs premieres in Venice on Tuesday, and the pair are nothing but full of praise for one another. Coppola and Jacobs were present at the press conference for Marc by Sofia on the Lido, fielding questions about the film from the press. “When they asked me to do a film on Marc, I thought, ‘No, I can’t do that. It’s too much pressure,’” Coppola admitted. “‘[It] would have to be good, because he’s my friend and I love him.’ And then I kept thinking about, oh, it’d be so fun to look through all the archives… we’ve been friends for 30 years, and [it would be fun] to get to revisit his incredible body of work that I grew up with.” The process reminded her of working on films with her brother in her 20s, she added. “Just my brother and me and a camera and a sound person — it was kind of made in the spirit of the way [I] started and I wanted this homemade, personal look.” Jacobs, who first met Coppola in the e