Por desgracia no ha acabado aquí la cosa :(.

Variety, quién reporto el supuesto comportamiento inadecuado de Coppola y publicó los vídeos en primer lugar, ha publicado otro artículo en respuesta al de Deadline.

Al parecer, ahora son ellos mismos los que han contactado con otra extra presente en el mismo vídeo, Lauren Pagone. Esta mujer si que acusa directamente a Coppola de besarla y abrazarla sin su consentimiento, afirma que se sintió terriblemente incómoda y recrimina a la otra extra que estaba con ella aquel dia, Rayna Menz, que hablase por todos los que estaban allí aquel día respecto a como se sintieron y como percibieron la manera de actuar de Coppola.

También ha afirmado que el problema de base es que se trata de una producción autofinanciada, y por lo tanto su director puede actuar con impunidad en el set de rodaje. Si se hubiese tratado de un proyecto de un gran estudio, o de streaming, a día de hoy existen salvaguardas y sistemas de reporte internos para asegurar que o bien ese comportamiento no tenga lugar, o bien las consecuencias para quienes se comportan así sean rápidas y expeditivas.


One of the women in the video, Lauren Pagone, who appeared in multiple scenes in “Megalopolis” as an extra, says she was dancing in the middle of a live take of a nightclub sequence when Coppola approached her and pulled her toward him. He then hugged and kissed her.



“I was in shock. I didn’t expect him to kiss and hug me like that. I was caught off guard. And I can tell you he came around a couple times.”


Pagone decided to come forward when another woman, Rayna Menz, told Deadline that she was one of the actresses seen in one of the two videos published by Variety. Menz told the trade publication that Coppola “did nothing to make me or for that matter anyone on set feel uncomfortable.”

Menz did not respond to an email from Variety requesting additional comment. Pagone was upset that Menz would speak for the entire cast and crew of the film.

“I don’t appreciate anybody speaking for me. I would never speak for that actress,” Pagone adds. “I’ve kept my mouth shut. I’ve kept quiet. But it’s frustrating that she’s putting out there, ‘Hey, it was great for everyone’ when she doesn’t know what other people were feeling. You can’t speak for anyone but yourself. My experience was different.”




“Megalopolis” intimacy coordinator Samantha McDonald previously told Variety that neither she nor Ashley Anderson, the film’s other intimacy coordinator, were on set for the nightclub scene, which was filmed on Feb. 14, 2023, at Atlanta’s Tabernacle concert hall. “I can’t really speak to the reason why they chose to bring us in when they did and not when they didn’t,” McDonald said.





In recent days, another member of the cast approached Variety to say that they had witnessed Coppola kissing “multiple women” during a different scene involving a New Year’s Eve celebration. Shortly before filming started, Coppola told the extras that he wanted them to act as they would at a typical holiday party and kiss each other at the end of the countdown, the cast member said. He added that he might jump in and kiss a few people himself.

After calling cut, Coppola got up, stopped multiple women as they passed him and kissed them on the cheek. “The women that I saw being kissed did not see him coming. He just basically grabbed them and planted the kiss on them without any kind of consent,” the person added. “They all kind of laughed it off for a moment and then I could tell that they were just surprised.”


The cast member who has worked on a number of high-profile productions in and around Atlanta says, “My entire experience being on that set was super weird and uncomfortable. It was probably the worst experience for me on a set ever.”

Because Coppola financed the entire $120 million budget himself, there was no place to complain about unorthodox behavior. Movies that are produced by streamers and major studios have more formalized human resources departments where actors and crew members can raise issues and concerns.


Pagone confirmed to Variety that the video she appears in was during a live shot and was not taken during a break.


En fin, veremos en que queda todo esto. De momento se supone que la película iba a proyectarse en el Festival de Cine de Toronto, pero a día de hoy todavía no tenemos confirmación oficial en su página web. Esperemos que no la hayan cancelado debido a toda esta controversia.