The director’s daughter exclusively speaks to VF about their new Squarespace collaboration, the Scorsese films she hasn’t seen, and what it’s like growing up in a famous family: “I didn’t know that people didn’t really like nepo babies very much.”
The elder Scorsese helms his first Super Bowl ad for Squarespace, a teaser which features the director learning how to create a website with Francesca, who serves as the commercial’s behind-the-scenes creative director. In the teaser, which can be seen below, the father and daughter mimic the banter found in their popular TikTok and Instagram videos, which contain artful trolling of Marvel movies and a fan cam clip where Francesca calls Martin a “certified silly goose.
Like when he filmed Silence, I was one of the people that saw the first cut, and I was doing notes on it. Like, “Oh, this was cut too quickly,” or, “I didn’t understand this,” that sort of thing. So it’s cool to have that part of our relationship expanded, and he really enjoys it as well.