Focus Options has slated Ethan Coen‘s darkish comedy Honey Don’t! for an August twenty second theatrical launch. The movie stars Margaret Qualley as Honey O’Donahue, a small-town non-public investigator who delves right into a sequence of unusual deaths tied to a mysterious church. Aubrey Plaza, Chris Evans, Charlie Day, and Billy Eichner additionally star within the challenge.
Honey Don’t! may have its world premiere on the upcoming Cannes Movie Pageant within the Midnight Screenings part. Along with helming the movie, Coen additionally co-wrote the script with Tricia Cooke. It is going to be the second installment of the “lesbian B-movie trilogy,” which started with Coen and Cooke’s Drive-Away Dolls, which additionally starred Qualley.
Whereas talking with i-D, Qualley dropped just a few particulars about her character, together with that she needed to hit the brakes on her “pure Scooby-Doo” inclinations in order that she would “be somewhat extra suave than I’m, extra mysterious. I are inclined 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 continued, “No lady must be taught tips on how to be a detective. Girls know what’s occurring even after they don’t know what’s occurring. I keep in mind in my early twenties, particularly, my investigative expertise on Instagram had been actually uncontrolled. It’s a mix of instruments, craft, and intestine intuition.” She added that she hasn’t learn a script or been contacted for the ultimate installment of the trilogy, however she made it identified that if she’s not in it, “I can be offended and I can be upset.“
Drive-Away Dolls starred Qualley and Geraldine Viswanathan as two younger girls who take an surprising street journey to Tallahassee and cross paths with a bunch of inept criminals. Sadly, our personal Chris Bumbray didn’t love the film, even saying it was a “little bit of a dud” in his assessment. “The one constructive factor about Drive Away Dolls is that Qualley and Viswanathan do their finest with the fabric,” Bumbray wrote. “Qualley is tasked with delivering a really over-the-top (Coen-esque) efficiency because the ‘wacky’ Jamie and positively appears recreation. You’ve by no means seen her like this earlier than, and she or he deserves kudos for prepared to be so ‘on the market’ in her efficiency.” You’ll be able to take a look at the remainder of his assessment proper right here.