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Romy Mars, the 16-year-old daughter of Oscar-winning filmmaker Sofia Coppola and Phoenix lead singer Thomas Mars, went viral on social media this week after one ...

I just want them to have a childhood.” “I never saw the point of taking little kids to movie premieres and stuff. As she prepped the vodka sauce, Romy told the camera that she decided to post her cooking video on TikTok “since I’m already grounded because my parents’ biggest rule is I’m not allowed to have any public social media accounts.” After her divorce from Jonze in 1999, she went on to marry Mars during an Italian wedding ceremony in August 2011. “Here’s why,” she said, while picking up her father’s Grammy award. In the clip, which has since been viewed more than 1 million times, Romy is seen talking about [nepotism](/topic/nepotism) as she cooks in her parents’ kitchen.

Romy Mars was grounded for trying to charter a helicopter to visit her camp friend for dinner. So, she took to TikTok to try to make pasta.

Follow her @emburack on [Twitter ](https://twitter.com/emburack)and Before joining T&C, she was the deputy managing editor at [Hey Alma](https://www.heyalma.com/), a Jewish culture site. We have to see each other because working far from each other is a really frustrating process. She went viral for a TikTok in which she revealed that she is grounded, and attempted to make a pasta dish. Thomas Mars, born Thomas Pablo Croquet, is a French musician who is the lead singer of Phoenix. Coppola, famously, is a nepo baby herself—she's the daughter of Eleanor Coppola and Francis Ford Coppola.

Filmmaker Sofia Coppola and Phoenix frontman Thomas Mars' daughter Romy is going viral for a cooking video where she talks about her famous family.

[devoured by vampires](https://www.avclub.com/what-we-do-in-the-shadows-review-season-4-episode-9-1849472243), Coppola recently shot a Priscilla Presley biopic in Toronto, starring [Cailee Spaeny](https://www.avclub.com/how-the-craft-legacy-cast-members-channel-their-witchy-1845501717) and featuring Euphoria’s [Jacob Elordi as Elvis](https://www.avclub.com/sofia-coppola-priscilla-presley-biopic-jacob-elordi-1849525806). [Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix](https://www.avclub.com/phoenix-wolfgang-amadeus-phoenix-1798206260). In a TikTok video shared to Twitter by user [@savbrads](https://twitter.com/savbrads/), Romy shares that she’s at home testing out her cooking skills for a particularly unusual reason. She admits that she had to Google pictures to tell the difference between onions and garlic, proceeding to chop up a shallot even though it didn’t match her search results. Spoiler alert: even without a public account, the video has still been viewed well over a million times, thanks to its uniquely chaotic energy. [Sofia Coppola](https://www.avclub.com/sofia-coppola-s-marie-antoinette-was-as-misunderstood-a-1846841000) and [Phoenix](https://www.avclub.com/phoenix-at-the-disco-1798191537) frontman Thomas Mars—and granddaughter of [Francis Ford Coppola](https://www.avclub.com/francis-ford-coppola-marvel-dune-no-time-to-die-1848562779)—Romy Mars is going viral.

Romy Croquet Mars, the 16-year-old daughter of writer and director Sofia Coppola and her husband, Phoenix lead singer Thomas Mars, said she was grounded for ...

At one point, she holds up a shallot and asks her followers, “Is this an onion?” Mars went on to share that her parents “don’t want me to be a nepotism kid, but TikTok is not gonna make me famous, so it doesn’t really matter.” “Because I tried to charter a helicopter from New York to Maryland on my dad’s credit card because I wanted to have dinner with my camp friend,” she says.

Despite being the daughter of two famous parents — filmmaker Sofia Coppola and her husband Thomas Mars of the band Phoenix — 16-year-old Romy has more or less ...

Romy Croquet Mars, a 16-year-old member of Hollywood's most powerful movie-making dynasty, posted a since-deleted video of herself prepping to make pasta à ...

Here’s why.” Cut to a second-long clip of her holding up a Grammy Award and smiling for the camera. Assuming she figures out a way to circumvent her parents’ rules again, I can’t wait to see her sophomore project. “Make a vodka sauce pasta with me because I’m grounded,” the video begins — an intro that could come from any bored teen with access to their parents’ liquor cabinet. She goes on: “Because they don’t want me to be a nepotism kid. It’s a TikTok of Sofia Coppola’s 16-year-old daughter preparing to make pasta à la vodka while grounded for trying to charter a helicopter on her parents’ credit card. When the child of a celebrity makes art, it’s customary to view it with a heavy dose of skepticism, the assumption being that their inherited access to wealth, power, and other creative resources does not necessarily make them a great candidate for insightful commentary on the world.

The third-generation nepo baby is already making headlines for her viral TikTok.

[French](https://www.lofficielusa.com/fashion/what-is-frenchness-fashion-art-culture-history) native, Romy was born in Paris. [Sofia Coppola](https://www.lofficielusa.com/fashion/the-chanel-iconic-campaign-sofia-coppola) and [Phoenix](https://www.lofficielusa.com/music/phoenix-french-indie-pop-band-comeback) lead-singer Thomas Mars, Romy Croquet was born in 2006. The family lived there until 2010 and then moved to their [West Village](https://www.lofficielusa.com/fashion/new-nyc-store-openings-to-attend-this-year) townhouse in New York City. Romy's younger sister, Cosima, was born in 2010, and the couple got [married](https://www.lofficielusa.com/pop-culture/celebrity-weddings-married-2022-bennifer-kourtney-kardashian) shortly after in 2011. [nepotism baby](https://www.lofficielusa.com/fashion/nepo-baby-celebrity-response-nepotism). The designer revealed that Romy is "such a cool and beautiful young woman," perfectly fitting with the spirit of Marc Jacob's Heaven collection. After quickly gaining virality in her videos, Mars deleted her TikTok account. Romy is named after the Moonrise Kingdom screenwriter. Often labeled as a director who captures the " [feminine gaze](https://www.lofficielusa.com/fashion/female-fashion-photographers-womens-history-month-annie-leibovitz-petra-collins)," Coppola has won numerous awards. She reached instant virality after posting a [TikTok](https://www.lofficielusa.com/fashion/modern-fashion-etiquette-rules-style-guidelines) explaining that she was grounded for trying to charter a helicopter with her dad's credit card in order to visit a camp friend. In the since-deleted video, she explains that she isn't allowed to have public [social media](https://www.lofficielusa.com/fashion/tiktok-stylists-addison-rae-charli-damelio-fashion) accounts because her parents fear her being labeled as a "nepotism kid." After their divorce in 2003, Sofia Coppola dated [Quentin Tarantino](https://www.lofficielusa.com/film-tv/uma-thurman-best-movies-pulp-fiction) until 2005.

The conversation found a new subject in the past day, following a TikTok uploaded by Romy Mars—daughter of Phoenix frontman Thomas Mars and Oscar-winning ...

[TikTok account](https://time.com/6264168/no-love-challenge-tiktok-whitewash-jordyn-williams/) have been deleted (though it can still be viewed on Twitter). Online, many people commended everything from the TikTok’s editing to the chaos-filled, addictive nature of the narrative. [Sofia Coppola](https://time.com/5903143/on-the-rocks-review-sofia-coppola/) (herself the nepo baby of [The Godfather ](https://time.com/5272351/francis-ford-coppola-art-donald-trump/)auteur Francis Ford Coppola). But there are many exceptions, and Mars seems to have the potential to be one of them. As she starts to cook, she shares that she does not know the difference between garlic and onion, and had to look up what they looked like. And while comments on this subject tend toward the negative, the video has been met with a warmer reception, with some saying Mars has the potential to follow in her mother’s footsteps as a great director.

Sofia Coppola and Thomas Mars' daughter, Romy Mars, has become an overnight star thanks to an extremely powerful TikTok. In the now deleted video, ...

[nepo baby](https://www.vulture.com/the-year-of-the-nepo-baby/) — this is followed by a smash cut of her holding a Grammy, which presumably belongs to her father, front man of the band Phoenix. Then she chops up some ingredients for a pasta sauce, as the video becomes more and more chaotic. In the video, she admits she was grounded for trying to charter a helicopter without permission.