Following a world premiere at Cannes, Ethan Coen held the North American premiere for “Honey Don’t!” at Metrograph in Manhattan on Wednesday, August 13. The darkish comedy follows Honey, performed by Margaret Qualley, who’s investigating an area cult. Aubrey Plaza, Charlie Day, and Billy Eichner co-star within the movie, co-written with Tricia Cooke.
IndieWire caught up with Plaza on the crimson carpet, the place she detailed on the brink of play Hollywood Madam Heidi Fleiss, who ran the “world’s largest high-end prostitution ring” and counted actors, politicians, and different main males amongst its shoppers within the ’90s. “I’ve been on this observe for some time,” she advised IndieWire.
“I acquired it in my head that I wished to play her a few years in the past and I’ve by no means performed a real-life particular person earlier than. It’s a distinct sort of scale, problem, that I’m actually enthusiastic about, and I simply suppose she’s an unbelievable particular person, unbelievable character. The story is insane. She’s achieved one thing that in all probability no one else has ever achieved, and he or she’s nonetheless going. I feel she’s the last word badass icon and he or she deserves the royal remedy. We will give it to her.”
As for whether or not Plaza has talked with Fleiss, she stated, “I’ve not spoken together with her, [but] I hope so. I hope to make a bit journey to her place within the desert sooner or later. Spiritually I really feel her. I’ve heard she’s very enthusiastic about it. We’re in early levels.”
Plaza can be reuniting with Coen subsequent month in “Let’s Love!,” an Off-Broadway play he wrote, with performances beginning on Thursday, September 25 and opening on Wednesday, October 15. “He really got here into my trailer after we wrapped ‘Honey, Don’t!’ and he was like, ‘I wrote this play. I feel I wrote it for you and didn’t notice it. Will you do it?’ And I used to be like, ‘I’ll actually do something you inform me to do.’ So right here I am going.”
As for Qualley, the Golden Globe-nominee tapped into her musical aspect for the primary time, creating alter ego Lace Manhattan round this movie. Whereas she has appeared in music movies for the likes of Bleachers and Rainsford, her vocal chops soar in two songs for the movie, produced by husband Jack Antonoff and co-written by director Coen. “It was so enjoyable,” she stated.
“Me and my good friend Talia Ryder acquired collectively to make these movies as if we had been pop stars and there’s not a lot to clarify apart from ladies having enjoyable.” As for whether or not any of Antonoff’s collaborators, which embrace Lana Del Rey and Sabrina Carpenter, to call just a few, gave her any musical recommendation, she stated, “Oh, no. I wasn’t even concerned with the music making. I’m simply performing the half.”
She is going to quickly be seen in Ridley Scott’s post-apocalyptic thriller “The Canine Stars,” which filmed earlier this 12 months alongside Jacob Elordi and Josh Brolin. “It was cool,” Qualley stated of working with the director. “He’s such a effectively oiled machine. It was a scale of film making I hadn’t actually skilled earlier than.”
“Honey Don’t!” premieres August 22 in theaters from Focus Options. Take a look at the trailer right here.
