Several crew members on Francis Ford Coppola’s Cannes-bound Megalopolis have alleged that the veteran filmmaker tried to “kiss some of the topless female extras” and make the team wait for hours without filming. The allegations, reported by The Guardian newspaper, come days before the film, fronted by Adam Driver, receives its world première at the ongoing Cannes Film Festival in the Competition segment. 

Multiple sources told the publication that Coppola, best known for The Godfather trilogy and Apocalypse Now (1979), was “old school” in his behaviour toward women. “He allegedly pulled women to sit on his lap. During the shoot of one bacchanalian nightclub scene, witnesses say Coppola came on to the set and tried to kiss some of the topless and scantily clad female extras. He apparently claimed he was ‘trying to get them in the mood’,” the report read.