The Beguiled (2017 film) for a biracial character from the novel, she cast white actress Kirsten Dunst. "The Guardian" said Coppola was criticized for engaging in whitewashing, to which the director said she made the changes so as "not [to] brush over such an important topic in a light way," and that "[y]oung girls watch my films and this was not the depiction of an African American character I would want to show them." The Beguiled (2017 film) The Beguiled is a 2017 American drama film written and directed by Sofia Coppola, based on the novel of the same name (originally published as "A
Roman Coppola director Francis Ford Coppola. He was born in the American Hospital in Neuilly-sur-Seine, while his father was in Paris helping write the screenplay of "Is Paris Burning?" As a boy, he had minor, uncredited roles in both "The Godfather" and "The Godfather Part II". He attended New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. Coppola began his directing career by overseeing in-camera visual effects and second unit direction for "Bram Stoker’s Dracula", which garnered a BAFTA Award nomination for Visual Effects. He has continued to do second unit direction throughout his career, including Francis Ford Coppola's "Jack", "The Rainmaker", "Youth