Margaret Qualley To Reteam With Ethan Coen On ‘Honey Don’t!’; Aubrey Plaza & Chris Evans Also Set For Focus Features Comedy
24.01.2024 - 20:20
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EXCLUSIVE: Ahead of Focus Features‘ February 23rd release of Drive-Away Dolls, the road-trip caper marking her first collaboration with Academy Award winner Ethan Coen, Margaret Qualley has been set to star in Honey Don’t!, the filmmaker’s latest for the same studio.
Joining Qualley in the cast are Aubrey Plaza (My Old Ass) and Chris Evans (Pain Hustlers). Details as to the film’s plot are currently under wraps, though Deadline understands it’s a comedy in the same vein as Drive-Away Dolls.
Coen is directing from his script written with wife Tricia Cooke, the veteran editor who cut such Coen Brothers classics as The Big Lebowski and O Brother, Where Art Thou?, also co-writing the upcoming Drive-Away Dolls. Pic’s producers are Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Coen, Cooke, and Robert Graf.
In Ethan Coen’s solo effort Drive-Away Dolls, Qualley portrays Jamie, an uninhibited free spirit bemoaning yet another breakup with a girlfriend, whose demure friend Marian (Geraldine Viswanathan) desperately needs to loosen up. In search of a fresh start, the two embark on an impromptu road trip to Tallahassee, but things quickly go awry when they cross paths with a group of inept criminals along the way.
A two-time Emmy nominee currently among the most in-demand actresses in town, Qualley is known for turns on such prestige series as Maid, Fosse/Verdon and The Leftovers, and has further cemented her star power with standout turns in Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood and Neon’s dominatrix pic Sanctuary, among other big screen titles. Most recently appearing in Yorgos Lanthimos’ Academy Award-nominated fantasy Poor Things, based on the novel by Alasdair Gray, she’ll also be seen in Lanthimos’ upcoming anthology film Kinds of