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Margaret Qualley and Aubrey Plaza Get Raunchy in Ethan Coen’s Detective Movie ‘Honey Don’t!,’ Earning Rowdy 6-Minute Cannes Ovation


Margaret Qualley is a lesbian detective in Ethan Coen's "Honey, Dont," which debuted at the Cannes Film Festival with a six-minute standing ovation.

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 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.

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