The creators of the highly-anticipated lesbian film ‘Drive Away Dolls’ said they want more comedy films for queer people to enjoy.
‘Drive-Away Dolls’, which stars Pedro Pascal, Margaret Qualley, Geraldine Viswanathan, Beanie Feldstein, Colman Domingo, Bill Camp, and Matt Damon, is a 20-year project by Ethan Coen and his wife Tricia Cooke. This is also Coen’s solo directorial debut.
Cooke came up with the original idea 20 years ago. Although married to Coen, Cooke identifies as lesbian, describing her marriage as “unconventional.”
“Back then, we wanted to make a genre movie, because we lacked those in the LGBT world,” Cooke said in an interview with Empire Online. “There really weren’t a lot of comedies for the queer world; still aren’t.”
“Neither of us was going to make a mopey lesbian movie, not being capable of that,” Coen added. “There are movies about the pain of being gay. That can be a good movie or a bad movie, like any other, but that is not something we were going to do. We have people for that.”
