Francis Ford Coppola is doing well after a brief trip to an Italian hospital.
Hours after local news outlets in Rome reported that the five-time Oscar winner, 86, was taken to the hospital Aug. 5, the director cleared up speculation that he was rushed there unexpectedly.
“Da Dada (what my kids call me) is fine,” Coppola wrote to Instagram alongside a picture of himself grinning. “Taking an opportunity while in Rome to do the update of my 30 year old afib procedure with its inventor, a great Italian doctor – Dr. Andrea Natale!”
The Godfather cowriter concluded, “I am well!”
Ahead of his trip to Italy, Coppola—who is dad to kids Roman Coppola, 60, Sofia Coppola, 54, and the late Gian-Carlo Coppola with his late wife Elanor Coppola—had been on a tour across the United States to screen his 2024 film Megalopolis, which he has been recounting on his social media.
