Together, Martin and Francesca Scorsese have racked up millions of views on their TikTok videos. The internet seems rather pleased that celebrated director Martin Scorsese has transitioned from being a behind-the-scenes creative wizard to a front-of-camera social media star that we all didn’t realize we deserved. Scorsese disclosed in a recent interview with the Los Angeles Times that he was, in fact, charmingly duped into creating the videos that have received millions of views by Francesca. Of the viral TikTok, Scorsese admitted, “I was tricked into that.” Fans were shocked to see him choose 2014’s “Birdman” above 1967’s “The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly” in the movie division offered by the app. “That was a trick. I didn’t know those things go viral. They say ‘viral.’ I didn’t know.”
The renowned filmmaker, who holds the credit for creating multiple Oscar-winning films including “Taxi Driver,” “The Wolf of Wall Street,” and most recently “Killers of the Flower Moon,” revealed how his daughter frequently approaches him to participate in father-daughter movies, sometimes even when he’s lounging around in his pajamas. Scorsese revealed, “I’m at home doing things and she comes up to me and says, ‘Dad, look over here and tell me this.’ So I’m in my pajamas … She said, ‘Well it’s a thing they’re doing.’ ‘Who’s they?’ She says, ‘Everybody’s doing it. It’s a thing called TikTok.’ ‘All right. All right.’”
The popular movie “Killers of the Flower Moon,” starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert De Niro, was most recently directed by Martin Scorsese. He continued, gesturing to the playful TikTok video from last month in which he appears to be conversing to an upcoming movie muse before pivoting the camera to reveal his dog, a little schnauzer named Oscar, seated across from him. “I mean, the one we did with the dog, that was known,” he said. However, Scorsese refuses to accept accountability for his rise to viral internet fame. Similar to his most recent TikTok video, he continued to tell the L.A. Times that he typically has no idea when the videos are “going to go up.”
“That I didn’t know was going to go up. I was just doing it in the other room with her. I don’t know what they’re going to do. They always have those iPhone cameras in their hands. You’re not aware. I honestly did not know she was going to post it …” About Francesca’s most recent TikTok smash, he asked, “They use the words ‘post it,’ right?”