The Coppolas are a Hollywood dynasty, starting with The Godfather director Francis Ford Coppola and continuing to his Oscar-nominated children, Roman and Sofia Coppola, and his Oscar-winning nephew, Nicolas Cage. But there is another, lesser known Coppola connection, via Talia Shire, Francis' sister who, thanks to her adoption of her first husband's surname, is perhaps not so quickly associated with the family. Best known as Adrian Balboa from the Rocky franchise, Shire had her son, Jason Schwartzman, with second husband Jack Schwartzman, making him first cousins with the famous Coppolas. Outside of just the family connection, Schwartzman has also collaborated professionally with his cousins, particularly Roman, via several projects with Wes Anderson, Coppola's sometimes writing partner.
In a chat with The Hollywood Interview, Shire described her kin as "a circus family," by which she meant, "We kill ourselves for our work ... we don't like lazy people, and there's no free ride. We may be competitive, but as in great circus families, we never drop the other members, so we can do what I call 'the dangerous tricks.'" Wow. Pretty intense.
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