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Ethan Coen’s raunchy, gory detective movie “Honey Don’t,” starring Margaret Qualley, Aubrey Plaza and Chris Evans, premiered to a rowdy Cannes crowd at midnight on Friday. The film earned a six-minute standing ovation, with writer Tricia Cooke declaring: “More queer cinema!”
Qualley headlines “Honey Don’t!” as the small-town private detective Honey O’Donahue, who delves into a series of strange deaths tied to a mysterious church. Evans gives an oversized comedic performance as the church’s charming but potentially evil minister. Plaza, Charlie Day and Billy Eichner round out the supporting cast.
“Honey Don’t!” marks the second collaboration between Coen and Qualley, who teamed up last year for the road trip crime comedy “Drive-Away Dolls.” Both movies feature Coen in the director’s chair without brother Joel and scripts co-written by Ethan and his wife Tricia Cooke.
Qualley told i-D ahead of Cannes that she had to dial back her “natural Scooby-Doo” instincts in order to play Honey, who is “skillful, she’s smooth, she is slipping in and out undetected… I had to be a little more suave than I am, more mysterious. I tend to want to diffuse things before they even happen.”
“Honey Don’t!” already has distribution courtesy of Focus Features. The movie will open in U.S. theaters on Aug. 22.
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