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Who: Oscar-winning screenwriter, director, manufacturer, and occasional actress Sofia Coppola, 49, and Oscar-winning screenwriter, director, producer, and occasional actor Spike Jonze, 51.

How They Met: The acclaimed administrators met in 1992, lengthy earlier than either used to be known for his or her work in the back of the digital camera. As the story goes, Coppola visited the set of Sonic Youth’s 100% song video, which Jonze happened to be co-directing. Kim Gordon instructed New York Magazine that the two have been pals “for years earlier than they were given together,” explaining, “They were spending on a daily basis together, but for some reason why, she just didn’t get it.”

Gordon expanded on this in a 1999 interview, telling Newsweek that she had offered Jonze to Coppola. "I actually worked on it for a couple of years," she stated. "They'd hang out together, but it was almost like the he's-too-nice syndrome. I was like, 'Show her your dark side!' We'd go to Thrifty's and try to find sunglasses for him."

That said, Jonze was setting up the hassle to transcend the friend-zone — smartly, type of? One of Jonze’s buddies, Beastie Boys’ Adam Yauch, advised New York Magazine that the Adaptation. director had once picked Coppola up from the airport in a fat go well with. Why? I wish I could start to understand.

“He stuck cotton balls in his jowls and placed on a fatty suit and rubbed Vaseline far and wide his face so he used to be really greasy. When she got off the plane, she sorta, like, part recognized him. He made her really feel truly uncomfortable when the general public would show up with plants or one thing.”

Yeah, flora would’ve been nice and less problematic.

Anyway, by hook or by crook, Jonze broke the barrier and he and Coppola wed at Francis Ford Coppola’s winery in Napa Valley in the summertime of 1999. Tom Waits sang as Coppola walked down the aisle in custom John Galliano, because of course.

Why We Loved Them: As a long way as cool, young, white indie administrators with “have you learnt who my father is?” energy went, Coppola and Jonze had been on the top in their sport. Despite being born into immense privilege (she because the daughter of one of the vital influential directors of all time and he as a descendant of the Spiegel catalog family), neither gave the impression eager to journey someone’s coattails. Jonze’s name is in fact a pseudonym — he was born Adam Spiegel.

They have been the couple you imagined digging into film idea over the dinner desk, evaluating camera lenses and parsing Godard’s oeuvre as pillow talk.

Though, from the sounds of it, paintings wasn’t their favorite matter. “We for sure talk about stuff, but I’m pretty cussed,” Coppola instructed Indiewire. “I don’t suppose we really love to get advice from one some other.”

She made a identical remark to The Guardian, explaining, "We're now not made to be collaborators.”

Despite what came to pass in their relationship, it was clear they always respected each other.

In a New York Times profile published mere months before the couple announced their separation, Jonze praised his wife and her work. “My first impression of Sofia,” he began, “was that she was quiet and graceful. And that she had taste, and when I say taste, I mean judgment in really subtle things. She always knew the feeling she wanted to convey in everything she did. And that's true taste.”

''Sofia has such a strong point of view,'' he continued. ''And, really, that's what being a director is: knowing what you would like and what you don't like and standing by that, despite all the pressures.’'

When They Peaked: In 1997, Jonze directed the music video for the Chemical Brothers’ “Elektrobank.” The video stars Coppola herself, who’s acted a bit through the years, including a Razzie award-winning performance in The Godfather: Part III. The mesmerizing short features nearly six minutes of Coppola as a gymnast, tumbling her way to victory during a competition. It’s strange, and wonderful, and if there was a feature-length film of just this I would watch it.

The Breakup: Speculation about the state of Coppola and Jonze’s marriage began around the time of Lost in Translation’s 2003 release. Critics noted similarities between Giovanni Ribisi’s character (who’s in a strained marriage to Scarlett Johansson’s Charlotte) and Jonze, which Coppola more or less confirmed (“that relationship was based on what I was going through at the time”). And in the aforementioned NYT profile, Coppola admitted that it had been “rough being apart so much,” noting in what now feels like premeditated foreshadowing from a skilled filmmaker, “We have to figure out our relationship after Sept. 12, when the movie comes out.’'

By December 2003, the couple had officially parted ways.

In September 2006, Coppola told Vanity Fair that her marriage to Jonze was once “type of my young courting,” including, "It wasn't in point of fact the right life for me to be with him, and what he wanted in his life. I wasn't totally formed."

During that same length, the Marie Antoinette director admitted that she and Jonze have been “um, no longer that during contact any more.”

"I didn't marry the precise individual," Coppola instructed The Hollywood Reporter in 2013. "I feel I had doubts," she said of the marriage, "however I did not pay attention to them because I used to be young. Spike didn't finish smartly."

Jonze rarely speaks about his personal life in interviews, but he did discuss Coppola briefly with GQ in 2009. “When we got together, we weren’t directors,” he said. “But we sort of grew up together, in a way, from our early twenties to our early thirties.”

He admitted that Coppola was “a big part of my life and a big part of forming who I was.”

Critics have lengthy theorized that Jonze’s Her is a response of sorts to Coppola’s Lost in Translation.

Where They Are Now:

Coppola married Phoenix frontman Thomas Mars in 2011. The couple shares two daughters: Romy, 13, and Cosima, 10.

The director’s latest feature film, On the Rocks, launches on Apple TV+ Oct. 23.

In the years since the divorce, Jonze has been linked to actresses Drew Barrymore and Michelle Williams, but his current relationship status is unknown.

The multi-hyphenate is credited as a writer and producer for the upcoming Jackass movie.

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