10 Movie Characters Created As A F**k You To Real People

6. Lost In Translation's Kelly Is Sofia Coppola's F**k You To A Major Movie Star

Who The Character Is: A hyperactive, air-headed movie star and friend to John (Giovanni Ribisi), husband of Charlotte (Scarlett Johannsson), Anna Faris' Kelly is in Tokyo to promote her latest action film and sing karaoke - woefully - in the nearest hotel bar. She's a fan of karate (pronounced ka-ra-tay) and power cleanses, and she doesn't seem to get that that pseudonym she checked into the hotel under is actually a man's name. Who She Really Is: Judging by the decade-long 'feud', rumours that Sofia Coppola based Kelly on Hollywood star Cameron Diaz appear to be true. Lost In Translation was actually highly autobiographical, with Charlotte based on Coppola, John based on filmmaker Spike Jonze, to whom Coppola was married from 1999 to 2003, and Kelly based on Diaz, whom Jonze worked with on his own film Being John Malkovich. Apparently, Coppola was jealous of the friendship Diaz had with her then-husband, so she decided to sneak a dig at the actress into her sophomore feature by inventing a deeply irritating character based on her.
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