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Margaret Qualley Plays Lesbian Detective in Next Queer Movie from Tricia Cook and Ethan Coen

Good gay news: Margaret Qualley will star in upcoming Tricia Cooke and Ethan Coen film Honey Don’t!. She will play the titular Honey, a lesbian detective out to investigate a questionable “church” that happens to be led by Chris Evans. Aubrey Plaza will star alongside her, though the specifics of her role are currently a mystery. Maybe she’ll be the true mystery Honey has to solve. In bed. Eh hem, sorry. All I know is that Margeret Qualley is amazing (I’m still recovering from The Substance) and Aubrey Plaza is amazing (and VERY good at flirting with women on screen) so I know whatever they cook up will be fun as hell.

Tricia Cooke and Ethan Coen have planned a trilogy of queer B-movies. The first installment was Drive-Away Dolls, starring Margaret Qualley and Geraldine Viswanathan, and the second will be Honey Don’t! Qualley, now having been in the first two films, has joked that if she’s not invited back for the third, she will be offended. (Side note/warning, that linked i-D article is a visual nightmare and I got overstimulated trying to read it despite there being great content. Proceed with caution.)

In an interview with Tricia Cooke on this very website last year, she said that Honey Don’t! was inspired by two movies from the ’70s: The Long Goodbye, a satirical neo-noir film set in Old Hollywood, and Fat City, a sports film about boxing. I haven’t seen either, but their Wikipedia articles make them sound VERY different so I’m intrigued to find out how they combine to make this queer film about a lesbian detective.

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