Regardless of the lackluster reviews and field workplace efficiency of final yr’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 not too long ago 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 inclined to need to diffuse issues earlier than they even occur. [Whereas] Honey, she’s like honey — she’s skillful, she’s clean, she is slipping out and in undetected,” Qualley advised i-D, explaining that she needed to deny her “pure Scooby-Doo” instincts in bringing the detective position to life.
“No lady must be taught the best way to be a detective,” she added. “Ladies know what’s taking place even after they don’t know what’s taking place. I keep in mind in my early twenties, particularly, my investigative abilities 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 like the world that they’re dwelling 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 spiritual trilogy that features each movies, Qualley mentioned of the potential third and last 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 shall be offended and I shall be upset.”
Forward of Drive-Away Dolls‘ February 2024 launch, Deadline solely revealed that the trio would subsequent team up for Honey Don’t! at Focus Features. Aubrey Plaza and Chris Evans are additionally set to star. In keeping with i-D, Evans performs a questionable church chief on the middle of Honey’s investigation.
