Regardless of the lackluster evaluations and field workplace efficiency of final 12 months’s Drive-Away Dolls, Margaret Qualley is re-teaming with Ethan Coen and Tricia Cooke.
Because the 2x Golden Globe nominee reunites with the filmmaking couple on Honey Don’t!, she lately teased her position because the titular homosexual personal detective Honey required her “to be slightly extra suave than I’m, extra mysterious,” within the upcoming second installment of their lesbian B-movie trilogy.
“I are likely to wish to diffuse issues earlier than they even occur. [Whereas] Honey, she’s like honey — she’s skillful, she’s easy, she is slipping out and in undetected,” Qualley instructed i-D, explaining that she needed to deny her “pure Scooby-Doo” instincts in bringing the detective position to life.
“No woman must be taught be a detective,” she added. “Ladies know what’s taking place even after they don’t know what’s taking place. I bear in mind in my early twenties, particularly, my investigative expertise on Instagram had been actually uncontrolled. It’s a mixture of instruments, craft, and intestine intuition.”
Qualley praised Coen and Cooke, noting that their time collaborating has been “in contrast to the rest I’ve ever recognized. They respect and love one another a lot. I really like the world that they’re residing in.”
Geraldine Viswanathan and Margaret Qualley in ‘Drive-Away Dolls’ (2024) (Wilson Webb/Focus Options/Courtesy Everett Assortment)
After the couple revealed that they had been making a queer religious trilogy that features each movies, Qualley stated of the potential third and ultimate installment, “I’ve not learn a script and I haven’t been contacted. However let the report present that if I’m not in [the third film], I will likely be offended and I will likely be upset.”
Forward of Drive-Away Dolls‘ February 2024 launch, Deadline solely revealed that the trio would subsequent workforce up for Honey Don’t! at Focus Options. Aubrey Plaza and Chris Evans are additionally set to star. Based on i-D, Evans performs a questionable church chief on the heart of Honey’s investigation.
