The Coen brothers aren’t finished making movies…on their own, at least.
The last movie that Joel and Ethan Coen directed together was 2018’s Western anthologyThe Ballad of Buster Scruggs.
Since then, they’ve gone their separate ways.
Margaret Qualley and Geraldine Viswanathan in Ethan Coen’s ‘Drive-Away Dolls’.Courtesy of Working Title / Focus Features
Joel made his solo directorial debut in 2021 withThe Tragedy of Macbeth.
“Weirdly, it was a very similar experience.
I could be talking about either me and Trish or me and Joel.
Geraldine Viswanathan, Margaret Qualley, and Beanie Feldstein in ‘Drive-Away Dolls’.Wilson Webb / Working Title / Focus Features
It’s the same process.”
“Writing together, cutting, and working with them as a script supervisor.
So I knew how we would work together, and he’s very generous and kind on set.
‘Drive-Away Dolls’.Courtesy of Working Title / Focus Features
This was my first experience producing and writing a movie and working with him to kind of direct it.
He made me feel very comfortable.”
Cooke and Ethan first came up with the idea in the mid-2000s but weren’t able to find funding.
Drive-Away Dollsstill maintains some traces of its origins, though such as its setting.
“But it does hearken back to the exploitation movies of the ’70s.
It’s down and dirty.”
“But not exploitative,” Cooke adds.
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