Sofia Coppola says executives dropped her Apple TV+ adaptation of an Edith Wharton novel because the company didn’t want to center an unlikable lead woman.
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Coppola aimed to adapt Wharton’s “The Custom of the Country,” which chronicles a newly wealthy Midwesterner’s attempt to infiltrate New York society. In 2020, Coppola said Undine Spragg, the novel’s lead, is her favorite “literary anti-heroine” and that she was excited to bring the character to the screen for the first time.
Sofia Coppola says Apple canned her Edith Wharton series over ‘unlikable’ lead
Sofia Coppola says Apple canned her Edith Wharton series over ‘unlikable’ lead