The followup to &34;DriveAway Dolls&34; and &34;Honey Don't!&34; will follow a lesbian crew team. Ethan Coen and Tricia Cooke reveal details on Go, Beavers!, fi

The follow-up to "Drive-Away Dolls" and "Honey Don't!" will follow a lesbian crew team.

Ethan Coen and Tricia Cooke reveal details on Go, Beavers!, final film in lesbian B-movie trilogy

The follow-up to "Drive-Away Dolls" and "Honey Don't!" will follow a lesbian crew team.

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Margaret Qualley as Honey O'Donahue in 'Honey Don't!'. Credit:

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Ethan Coen and Tricia Cooke did not initially intend to make a trilogy when they started work on what would become the first of their lesbian B-movie collection, *Drive-Away Dolls*.

"It was just a fun thing to write," Coen tells* *in a joint interview with his film editor and screenwriter wife. But when he and Cooke completed the second film, "we had to call it a trilogy," at that point, he says. "Because who does two of anything? You gotta at least promise a third one."

"I was interested in making these genre movies through a queer lens that highlighted lesbian characters in particular, just because there aren't many," Cooke says of the collection. "It seemed like there was a gap that needed to be filled."**

Tricia Cooke and Ethan Coen on set of 'Honey Don't!' with star Margaret Qualley.

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The second entry is *Honey Don't!* (in theaters Friday), which, like *Drive-Away Dolls, *is a crime caper that once again stars Margaret Qualley. She plays Honey O'Donahue, an old-school private detective in Bakersfield, Calif., who investigates a series of strange deaths tied to a mysterious church led by a charismatic reverend (played by Chris Evans). Aubrey Plaza also stars as MG Falcone, a police officer who begins a romantic relationship with the intrepid Honey.

If there's no clear throughline between the premise in the first two entries, that was by design. "Having written the first one, we said, 'Let's do something different.'" Coen says. **

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Consider the third and final entry even more disparate. The film will be titled *Go, Beavers!* and diverge from the crime caper genre of the first two films. "It's a story about a lesbian crew team coming together for their 10th year college reunion and kind of traveling down the river of life, what they experience," Cooke shares.

The script is not yet completed. "We're working on a couple of things, that being one of them," Coen notes. But, of course, they hope to cast Qualley again. "We will definitely find a role for her," Cooke says.**

Margaret Qualley as Jamie and Geraldine Viswanathan as Marian in 'Drive-Away Dolls'.

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They also hope to once again recruit Beanie Feldstein (who played Sukie, a police officer and ex of Qualley's character Jamie in *Drive-Away Dolls*) and Bill Camp (who played Curlie, the shady mechanic and middleman at a rental car company in the same film) for the final entry. Camp also appears in *Honey Don't!* via drive-thru voice-over. "Beanie would be fun to bring back," Cooke says. "And we'll find something for Bill Camp. Hopefully Margaret will be there."

"I'd do anything with Ethan and Tricia," Qualley tells EW in a separate interview.

So much so that the star initially auditioned for the roles of both best friends Jamie and Marian, the latter played by Geraldine Viswanathan, in the first entry "because I was so eager to collaborate with them and be on their set," Qualley says. To her delight, that collaboration led to Honey O'Donahue. "I love the aspirational quality to her," she says. "She feels like an old movie star, like Humphrey Bogart or Lauren Bacall. I watched a lot of old movies in preparation for this:* The Long Goodbye, The Maltese Falcon*. I appreciate her care and ease."

Qualley also lends her voice to the film's soundtrack, produced by her husband Jack Antonoff, under the musical persona Lace Manhattan with two songs: "In the Sun She Lies" and "ODDWADD." She makes it clear, however, that the alter ego was created solely for the film. Apologies to the pop girlies, but Lace Manhattan won't be releasing any more new music anytime soon; the persona was all in good fun, the star says. A possible appearance on Taylor Swift's upcoming new album? (Antonoff has collaborated with the pop star on previous songs.) "Absolutely not," Qualley quips.

*Honey Don't! *is in theaters Friday.**

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