- Bu Cuarón posted a video on
TikTok with her father, "Roma" director Alfonso Cuarón, in which she dances while her father eats and occasionally bobs along to the music in the foreground. - Twitter user @cianvor reposted the video to Twitter, where it has nearly 330,000 views and spread among several film-related accounts.
- Other filmmakers like Nicolas Winding Refn and Anurag Kashyap seem to have made appearances in TikToks with their families as well.
On June 14, Bu Cuarón posted a video on TikTok featuring her dad, who happens to be Academy Award-winning director Alfonso Cuarón ("Roma"). In it, Bu dances to Bhad Bhabie's "Geek'd" while Alfonso eats, looks at the camera, and occasionally bobs his head in the foreground.
@bucuaron ♬ original sound - livy.divy
Bu Cuarón, also known as Tess Bu Cuarón, has a social media following in her own right aside from her father's film renown, with 15,000 followers on Twitter, 125,000 followers on Instagram, and nearly 4,600 on TikTok. A musician, she released the single "Psycho" as part of the "Music Inspired by the Film Roma" album.
The TikTok appears to have spread to Twitter, and by proxy, Film Twitter, after user @cianvor reposted it and Bu herself retweeted it. At that point, the video spread to several other film related accounts, and while it has nearly 18,000 views on TikTok, @cianvor's re-upload has approximately 330,000.
—Ang Ferraguto (@MagnaFarta) June 16, 2020
This isn't the first time Alfonso Cuarón has featured in one of his daughter's TikTok videos. Bu posted a video on February 26 in which she dances to Lil Uzi Vert's "SideLine Watching (Hold Up)" while her dad stands to the side and occasionally mimics some of her dance moves. "He was so confused," the caption reads.
@bucuaron he was so confused ##fyp
♬ Original Sound - Unknown
The Film Stage highlighted other examples of film directors showing up in their kids' TikTok videos in a Twitter thread, including Danish filmmaker Nicolas Winding Refn and Indian filmmaker Anurag Kashyap. Kashyap appears on his daughter Aaliyah's TikTok account; Refn has appeared in several TikTok videos that he's reposted to Twitter.
@aaliyahkashyap father is really enjoying himself ##fyp ##foryou ##dad
♬ original sound - millionairemindset2020
—Nicolas Winding Refn (@NicolasWR) April 13, 2020
Other celebrities like Laura Dern and Courteney Cox have appeared in TikToks alongside their children as well.
- Read more:
- Netflix's 'Roma' made history with its Oscar wins despite losing best picture to 'Green Book'
- 'Gravity' director's new film 'Roma' is one of the best Netflix originals of all time, critics say
- Laura Dern made her TikTok debut by pushing her daughter out of the frame to dance
- Courteney Cox and her daughter performed a choreographed dance for the 'Friends' star's TikTok debut