The story never got much traction when it broke last Friday (7.26) but now the woman in the video (i.e., the recipient of Francis Coppola’s on-set affection during the shooting of Megalopolis) has posted on Instagram that it’s mostly bullshit and at the very least misleading by way of over-inflation.
Deadline’s Mike Fleming, a longtime Coppola ally, has scolded Variety’s Tatiana Siegel and Brent Lang for being over-zealous, etc.
I have no dog in this hunt. I do know that #MeToo zealotry has instilled a hunger in some to take down older white guys…yum! Roman Polanski, Woody Allen, Frank Langella and others were fine when the media first pounced, but the outrage machine needs to be constantly fed fresh meat.
