Bette Midler’s daughter, Sophie von Haselberg, got the call of a fashionista’s lifetime last December when Marc Jacobs’ team rang late at night to see if she’d co-star with her crooner mom in his spring ad campaign.
“I was on the verge of going to bed and they called and asked if I would join the shoot the next morning with my mom,” says von Haselberg, who plays a hacker in the hotly anticipated Wall Street flick “Equity,” due out this year. “Initially, I was nervous and thought maybe I shouldn’t do it,” she tells Threads, explaining she’d only met the designer once before. “And then I was like, ‘Sophie, you’re being a total idiot.’ I love that Marc always picks such unique people. It’s not a matter of whether you’re a supermodel or how thin you are; it’s people who are actually fascinating to look at and fascinating humans. And I’m so proud to be one.”
While Midler and her mini-me are as close as can be, von Haselberg says her mother watches her budding career from a distance. “It’s good the way she’s been hands-off with everything,” says the Yale grad. “If you don’t figure out how to go at it alone, you’ll become too reliant on getting advice from parents and you won’t let yourself fail.” No hocus pocus (or stage moms) here, darlings.