Francesca Scorsese pranked her dad in a hilarious video that involved a flea (Picture: Getty Images)

Martin Scorsese, 80, was pranked by his daughter Francesca, 23, after she made her dad take part in a hilarious TikTok video in which she directed him to hold an imaginary flea’s jacket. 

The famous director had the wool pulled over his eyes by his daughter as the pair sat together to film a video for the social networking site that took a funny turn.

Adopting a voice altering filter that left the duo sounding squeaky and childlike, the younger Scorsese began by asking her dad to count how many times an imaginary bug did a backflip out of her hand.

Martin watched on with concentration as Francesca made up and down motions with her hand as if throwing the flea into the air. 

Continuing on with the farce, she then asked her dad to hold the insect’s jacket and motioned for him to make a pincer shape with his two fingers. 

The Goodfellas director willfully obliged and held his hand in that position for the remainder of the short clip. 

Martin Scorsese was pranked by his own daughter (Picture: @francescascorsese)

The youngster caught her dad off guard in a hilarious TikTok video (Picture: @francescascorsese)

Once the questioning was over Francesca then asked Martin if he really thought she had a flea nestled in the palm of her hand to which he adamantly replied ‘yes’. 

The 23-year-old turned to her parent and quizzically asked again if he really did think she was holding a real flea. 

‘Show me your hands’, Martin instructed his daughter, following which she laid her palm flat on the wooden table. 

Francesca is one of Martin’s three children (Picture: WireImage)

The 80-year-old director is famed for his work on movies such as Goodfellas (Picture: Getty Images)

He then confirmed: ‘There is nothing in your hands’ with the approval of Francesca who then posed the question ‘well why are you holding its jacket?’ 

Erupting into fits of giggles the famous offspring drew viewers’ attention back to Martin’s pinched fingers and looking down at his own hand he replied: ‘It would be really rude to just toss it away don’t you think?’ 

The pair continued their back and forth with Francesca playfully asking if he wanted to give the flea back his jacket and uploaded the video with the caption: ‘He really threw me a curveball there’. 

Not the first time he’s been caught out by the prankster, Francesca got one over on The Wolf of Wall Street director last year when she trolled him with Marvel wrapping paper following his negative comments about the franchise. 

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There’s no flea-ing from this one.