Dolls for takeaway has an all-star cast including Margaret Qualley, Geraldine Viswanathan, Colman Domingo, Pedro Pascal and, in a wild cameo, Miley Cyrus.
Spoiler alert: The singer, 31, appears in the midst of the most doll-like sequences in the Ethan Coen-directed thriller-comedy.
In an interview with The Wrap, Coen and co-writer Tricia Cooke explained in detail why Cyrus was cast as the raunchy hippie Tiffany Plaster Caster, a character based on the real-life creator of plaster casts of celebrity penises.
“I was talking [Cyrus] about Cynthia Plaster Caster, “I don’t know if you know, your character is based on Cynthia,” Cooke told the outlet. “She says, ‘I thought that’s why you called me.’ Much affection to Cynthia Plaster Caster.”
“Miley loves her d—s,” Coen joked. “And that’s her business. He loves it, and the retro hippie thing and the whole phallus shaping thing.”
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Miley Cyrus at the Grammy Awards on February 4th.
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Cynthia Albritton, known as Cynthia Plaster Caster, died in 2022 at the age of 74. The artist’s series of works featured casts of body parts from famous figures, starting with Jimi Hendrix, according to Deadline.
Per DiversityAlbritton also produced the penis casts of Wayne Kramer of the MC5, Pete Shelley of the Buzzcocks and Jello Biafra of the Dead Kennedys, along with the breasts of Laetitia Sadier of Stereolab and the Peaches and Karen O of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs.
Since the filming of the film Hannah Montana Alum’s psychedelic scenes with Matt Damon, Cooke recalled that Cyrus was “just game for anything, whatever you ask her to do.”
“We wanted to do that low shot that kind of pushed her into her and we said, ‘Do you mind if we go over here?’ She says, ‘I’ve done a lot worse.’ ”
Coen added: “She’s so much fun… At 29, she’s – I mean that in the best sense of the word – like an old showbiz girl. ‘Yeah, whatever, honey. Everything you need.’ ”
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(L-R:) Ethan Coen, Geraldine Viswanathan and Margaret Qualley on the set of “Drive-Away Dolls.”
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According to Cooke, Cyrus is so “obsessed with her phalluses” that she reportedly “has an entire room dedicated to phalluses.”
The 2019 Grammy winner claimed she was “kicked out” of the 2012 family film. Hotel Transylvania after a photo of her with a penis cake for then-boyfriend Liam Hemsworth surfaced.
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Dolls for takeaway stars Qualley and Viswanathan as a pair of lesbian friends who trek south to Florida while carrying sensitive materials, including what turn out to be dildos from Tiffany’s plaster casts, in their hitchhiking vehicle.
In an interview with Collider last June, Cooke called the film “a weird kind of crazy that doesn’t take itself too seriously and is very lighthearted and fun and sometimes outrageous…all those things.” Coen added: “And some sex.”
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(L-R:) Margaret Qualley and Geraldine Viswanathan in “Drive-Away Dolls.”
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See Margaret Qualley, Beanie Feldstein and more arrive at the premiere Dolls for takeaway
As for Cyrus’ brief appearance in the film, Qualley, Viswanathan and actress Beanie Feldstein recently expressed their excitement when they learned of the cameo. “We were all absolutely shaken,” Viswanathan said in an interview with Out.
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