(Left to right:) Miley Cyrus, Matt Damon, Geraldine Viswanathan and Margaret Qualley in “Drive-Away Dolls”.Photo:ROBYN BECK/AFP via Getty; Dominique Charriau/WireImage; Wilson Webb / Working Title / Focus Features
ROBYN BECK/AFP via Getty; Dominique Charriau/WireImage; Wilson Webb / Working Title / Focus Features
Drive-Away Dollshas many of the twists, turns and flights of fancy fans might expect of anEthan Coen-directed movie. Case in point: among its all-star cast is a wild celebrity cameo who goes uncredited in the film.
Miley Cyrusappears amid the trippiest sequences in the dark comedy-thriller (in theaters now), which starsMargaret QualleyandGeraldine Viswanathanas a pair of lesbians trekking cross-country while unknowingly toting sensitive materials in their drive-away vehicle.
Caught in the crosshairs areBeanie Feldsteinas a cop, Bill Camp as a drive-away service specialist andPedro Pascal.
The latter actor plays a particularly shocking role inDrive-Away Dolls’ twisty plot as — spoiler alert — a collector of sex toys fashioned from the genitalia of powerful men. Said men will stop at nothing to cover up the existence of said toys.
Soon after Pascal, listed onIMDbas only The Collector, is introduced in the film, he is stabbed with a wine corkscrew and his decapitated head ends up in a hat box.
As glimpsed in one of the movie’strailers, Cyrus, 31, first appears in one of the colorful sequences that punctuateDrive-Away Dolls’ scene transitions. Dressed in a flowy robe-like outfit, her hippie look is complete with long blonde hair and bangs. Her character’s name is Tiffany Plastercaster — an homage to real-life artistCynthia Plaster Caster, as Coen and co-writer Tricia Cooke revealed in an interview withThe Wrap.
Miley Cyrus in 2023.Stefanie Keenan/Getty
Stefanie Keenan/Getty
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Not long after Qualley and Viswanathan’s characters have learned they accidentally possess the most absurd possible blackmail on a famous senator — a steel briefcase full of the phalluses, plus The Collector’s severed head in the hat box — a seemingly de-aged Damon is then glimpsed in bed with theHannah Montanastar in flashback.
As the Oscar winner, 53, writhes with pleasure in an apparently drug-induced haze, Cyrus can be seen straddling him and uttering assurances that the two will be together forever. Although nothing below the waist is shown, it becomes clear that Tiffany is molding a cast of his penis for what will become one of the sex toys destined for the briefcase.
Cooke toldThe Wrapthat casting Cyrus in her cameo was a perfect fit because the Grammy winner is “into her phalluses” and allegedly “has a whole room devoted to phalluses.”
“I was telling her about Cynthia Plaster Caster, ‘I don’t know if you know. Your character’s based on Cynthia,’” Cooke told the outlet. “She’s like, ‘I thought that’s why you called me.’ Big fondness for Cynthia Plaster Caster.”
(Left to right:) Geraldine Viswanathan, Margaret Qualley and Beanie Feldstein in “Drive-Away Dolls”.Courtesy of Working Title/Focus Features
Courtesy of Working Title/Focus Features
Speaking withColliderof their collaboration onDrive-Away Dolls, which they first drafted years ago, Cooke said that while her husband and his brotherJoel“make highbrow movies… we make lowbrow movies.”
The brothers’ work together includes 1998’sThe Big Lebowskiand 2013’sInside Llewyn Davis, among others. They began working separately in recent years, with Joel Coen directing 2021’sThe Tragedy of Macbethsolo.
Drive-Away Dollsis now in theaters.
source: people.com
