Just a month after reports and videos from the set of Megalopolis claimed director Francis Ford Coppola behaved inappropriately on set, the filmmaker is speaking out.
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'If you read that piece, you’ll realize that whoever the sources were — and I honestly don’t know who the sources were — it’s the same people who provided quotes for that Hollywood Reporter piece that said all these people were fired or resigned, and that there was a mass exodus, all of that,' Coppola said.
When asked why someone would try to 'damage the picture,' Coppola explained it's because he doesn't 'follow rules' set forth in Hollywood. The initial report included a source who claimed that after he kissed several women during the scene, Coppola announced into a microphone, 'Sorry, if I come up to you and kiss you. Just know it's solely for my pleasure.'
'And the truth of the matter is, they were looking for some sort of dirt. The young women I kissed on the cheek, in regards to the New Year’s scene, they were young women I knew,' he insisted
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