Francis Ford Coppola It is sharing a health update after undergoing a heart procedure in Rome.
“That data (what my children tell me) is fine, taking advantage of an opportunity in Rome to update my procedure AFIB of 30 years with his inventor, a great Italian doctor – Dr. Andrea Natale“The 86 -year -old Oscar winning director shared in a Instagram Posted in the afternoon Tuesday, August 5. “I’m fine!”
Previous Tuesday, Coppola’s representative disputed local media reports in Italy that Godfather The filmmaker was admitted to Policlinico Tor Vergata, a hospital in Rome, after experiencing a slight cardiac arrhythmia.
“Mr. Coppola went for a updating procedure scheduled with the acclaimed Doctor Andrea Natale, his doctor over 30 years old, and rests very well,” said director of the director. The tutoradding that “everything is fine.”
The representative said that the reports were not “true” and “there was no emergency. He went to the hospital in a car.”
Coppola has recently wrapped up a screening tour of six cities in support of his latest movie, MegalopolisWith the final date that will take place on Friday, August 1 at the Palau de Fine Arts in San Francisco.
During a discussion after the projection, Coppola spoke of his legacy and the death of his wife, Eleanor CoppolaWHO died in April 2024.
“I am 85 years old,” he said, for SFGATE. “I lost my wife a year ago, around this time. But my attitude for death is that I always lived my life, so when I approached death, I would not say,” Oh, I wish I had done it and I wish I had done it. “Instead, I say,” I have to do this. “
“I saw my daughter win an Oscar. I saw my father win an Oscar,” he continued, referring to the daughter Sofia Coppolaa film director by his own right and his father Carmine CoppolaA composer who worked in many of his son’s films.
Coppola added, “I will be so busy saying all the things I have to do when I died, I will not notice. When I died, I will not notice. You know how your electric teeth brush goes out only when you least expect it? It’s what death is like.”