Sofia Coppola and Thomas Mars’ daughter, Romy Mars, has become an overnight star thanks to an extremely powerful TikTok. In the video, she admits she was grounded for trying to charter a helicopter without permission. Then she breaks up some ingredients for a pasta sauce as the video gets more and more chaotic. She’s also apparently banned from having “public social media accounts,” but implies that since she’s already grounded, why not break that rule too?
The now-deleted TikTok was saved for the story on Twitter as user @savbrads’ upload of the video went viral.
The TikTok begins on a high note: “Make me a vodka sauce pasta because I’m grounded for trying to charter a helicopter from New York to Maryland on my dad’s credit card because I’m with my camp boyfriend wanted to have dinner,” she says to the camera.
She then makes an objectively perfect admission, sharing that she’s confusing onions and garlic — a brief shot of her grimacing smile and holding a cleaver is inserted in the middle of the footage — and that she’ll have to Google the difference between the two . Then she proceeds to chop a shallot.
On TikTok, she says not to have a public-facing social media account so people don’t see her as such Nepo baby — followed by a smash cut of her with a Grammy that presumably belongs to her father, the frontman of the band Phoenix. But “TikTok isn’t going to make me famous,” she assures viewers. That’s decidedly wrong, especially considering the last 15 seconds of the video, in which she compares the cross-section of a shallot to “the inner workings of a ballsa” (it cuts out) and then turns the camera on a person she says is Ari, her babysitter’s boyfriend, because “my parents are never home, so they’re my surrogate parents.”
She and Ari then joke that she shouldn’t be referring to her “helicopter fiasco” — she should call it a fiascoA, because that’s the feminine conjugation and it’s Women’s History Month.
The whole TikTok is a fever dream, a cinematic masterpiece from start to finish. Sofia Coppola, whose directorial work includes maximalist cult classics such as Marie Antoinette And The bling ring should – dare I say it – be proud. Or maybe not since her daughter is grounded, you know, and obviously doesn’t have permission to post public TikToks either. And then there’s the part where she calls her mom because she’s “never been home” and lets her babysitter’s boyfriend (who seems lovely, I have to say) raise her.
In classic TikTok form, the video promises a part 2 where we can actually see her making the pasta sauce. But given the deletion of this video, I kinda doubt that will happen. But if it does come I will be first in line to see it.
