Gia Coppola on the Distinct Lack of Nicolas Cage in Her Family’s Films: “He’s Just SO Busy!”

San Sebastian Film Festival Has Continued to Fortify the Prestige of the Event’s Widly-Attended Film Talks Sessions by Hosting Gia Coppola on Tuesday.

The Filmmaker, Whose Most Recent Feature The Last ShowGirl Depicted Pamela Anderson and Jamie Lee Curtis As Fading ShowGirls on the Las Vegas Strip, Is Serving on the Spanish Film Fest’s Official Jury this Year.

She Led a session about her biggest takeays as a child who grew up privy to some of Hollywood’s most ilustrios Sets, Including Those Led by Her Grandfather, Fransher Coppola and Aunt, Sofia Coppola.

“I’ve Learned So Much,” Coppola Said at the City’s Tabakalera Venue. “WITH MY AUNT, SEEING HER NOTY JUST BEING A WOMAN AND REALLY TRIILBLAZING The PATH FOR WOMEN AS FILMMAKERS, BUT TO DO IN A IN Way that True’s True to Her Personality (Best You Don.Laughs), Who’s a big male presenter and Powers through. And that’s True to His Personality. ”

Fresh Out of College, Coppola Helped Her Grandfather On His 2011 Horror Twixt. “I Remember HE WAS TRID FROM A DAY OF WORK AND DIDNN’T WANT TO DRIVE HOME, AND WE WE Were Filming in Napa, SO HE WAS LIKE, ‘YOU DRIVE HOME.’ ” ” ‘ I’ve Never Driven A Manual Before. “He’s Justting Back Laughing: ‘wouldnn’t be funny if, all of a suden, a deer wnt in front of the car?’ But The Lesson HE WAS TRYING TO Teach Me is: DON’T WORRY UNTIL IS ACTUAL REALLY TIME FOR Worrying. ”

Coppola Was Asked Who, Despite Their Closens – with Cousins ​​Jason and Robert Shwartzman, Too – Her Relatives Have Scarcely Made Films with Another Coppola: Nicolas Cage. “Well, My Grandpa HAS,” Reference Ford Coppola’s Rumble Fish (1983) and Peggy Sue Got Married (1986). “But I would love to work with HIM. HE’S JUST SO BUSY! BUT HE’S ONE OF MY FAVORITE ACTORS.”

The Filmmaker Also Discussed Her Sag Award-Nominated The Last ShowGirl and Revealed It Was Initially a No From Anderson, Who Was Lauded for Her Dramatic Performance. “WHEN I WENT to TRY TO CAST HER, I GOT TURNED DOWN WITHIN AND HOUR, SO I KNEW THAT SHE DIDNN’T GET A HOLD OF THE SCRIPT,“ COPPPLA EXPLAINED. “I have to find another Way. And i’m so grateful that i was was about and was to get in a touch with her soon, and he put the script in Her Hands. And THEN WHEN HEW WAS LIKE, ‘Good NEWS, SHE. And we talaked right away, and she was so emptic: ‘i Need this Part.’ And i’m like, ‘but you have the part.

She Continued About the Opportunity to Work with Anderson and Curtis Again “Both Those Women Are Incredible In Very Different Ways. Pamela Is So. To have a gotunity to work with her and get to know her as a human being because she’s a Wonderful Person. Winning this Academy Award (for [forEverything everywhere all at once (2022)]. I Thought There’s No Way She’s Going to Want To Shoot this Small Movie in Las Vegas. ”

But Curtis is “Such A Lover of Independent Film” and Was Exited to Work with Anderson, Coppola SAID. “IT WAS RELALLY EYE-OPENING FOR ME TO See Someone of that Legend to Work in the Confines of Our Guerilla Filmmaking. She Was Moving Gear AUNH actors. She Aded: “I would love to find a like [to work with them again]. I ALSO HAD A Fantasy That Sequel To The Last ShowGirl would be Shelly and Annette go rob a casino and it’s a heist film. ”

Across the Session, Coppola Discussed Her Advice for Budding Directors, Who Becomeaa A Parent Has Given Her “LESS TIME” TO SELF-Critical, and How She OverComes Writer’s. She Also Touched on Her Decision to Join the Industry as Her Relatives Had, and SAID About Her Introduction to Film: “I Remember When I SAW Zodiac (2007) for the first time in the Movie theater at College, and I was just just like, ‘Whoa. That is a Cool Movie. ”

“I love all the classics, and I KNOW TORSE MOVIES, AND I THINK They’re Legendary, But I Think What Made Made Me A Film Nord Was The Paul Thomas Andersons, The David Finters, The Moders

The San Sebastian International Film Festival 2025 Runs Sept. 19-27.