Sofia Coppola has shared the story behind a photograph in her 2023 book Archive, featuring Kirsten Dunst as Marie Antoinette on her way home from a ball in the early hours of the morning.
Speaking at a BFI London Film Festival session on Thursday (9 October), the Oscar-winning writer and director was shown the image and asked to recall an anecdote about it.
Coppola explained that she and her brother Roman, who shoots second-unit footage for her, first filmed Dunst looking out of a taxi after the prom in The Virgin Suicides (1999). They later shot Scarlett Johansson in the same way for Lost in Translation (2003).
“I love that feeling of having a crush,” Coppola said of the images.
