Lisa is making more history at the 2022 MTV VMAs!
09.08.2022 - 21:15 / deadline.com
EXCLUSIVE: Ethan Coen looks to have found his leading ladies for his untitled pic at Working Title and Focus as sources tell Deadline Margaret Qualley and Geraldine Viswanathan are set to star in the pic. The film marks Ethan’s first time directing a film on his own having spent his entire career co-directing and writing films with his brother, Joel. Coen co-wrote the script with his wife Tricia Cooke and as of right now, plot and character details are being kept under wraps.
Coen and Cooke are also producing with Robert Graf and Working Title’s Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner.
Coen had been meeting with talent for months with the roles quickly becoming some of the more coveted parts in the biz for up-and-coming leading ladies. In recent weeks, a short list was made with the remaining actresses reading with each other to see which two had the best chemistry and in the end insiders say Qualley and Viswanathan’s screen tests could not be beat.
The film will shoot this fall.
Qualley has had herself quite the year going back to her critically acclaimed role in Netflix’s limited series Maid. The part has earned her several nominations including a recent Emmy nom for leading actress in a limited series. On the film side, her pic Stars at Noon premiered at the Cannes Film Festival. She also has the pic Sanctuary opening at the Toronto Film Festival next month.
Following her breakout roles in Blockers and Bad Education, Viswanathan has continued to stay busy most recently starring in The Broken Hearts Gallery for Sony Pictures. Up next for her is the Apple pic The Beanie Bubble.
Qualley is repped by UTA, Linden Entertainment and SOWD LLP and Viswanathan is repped by WME, 3 Arts Entertainment, Mollison Keightley Management and attorney Jim
Lisa is making more history at the 2022 MTV VMAs!
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The Hollywood Reporter confirmed that the filmmaker would be going solo without his brother Joel who directed The Tragedy of Macbeth without him last year.Ethan wrote the script for the untitled film, reportedly inspired by Russ Meyer, alongside his wife Tricia Cooke in the early 2000s.A synopsis reads: “The story centred on a party girl who takes a trip from Philadelphia to Miami with her buttoned-down friend. Cruising bars ensues as does the potpourri of a severed head in a hatbox, a bitter ex-girlfriend, a mystery briefcase and an evil senator.”The film’s lead roles have now been filled.
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