The husband-and-wife filmmakers discuss “Drive-Away Dolls,” untraditional marriage, and their planned lesbian trilogy, Naomi Fry writes.
“Ethan thinks I’m like Jamie,” Cooke said on a Zoom call the other day, from a wooden-raftered Airbnb in Albuquerque, where the couple are shooting another movie. “I’m a glass-half-full person. Ethan can kind of spiral into—” “I’m like Marian,” Coen interjected. He had a close-cropped salt-and-pepper beard and wore black-rimmed glasses. “I’m the worrier.” He sighed. “Sometimes I get infuriated with Trish for not worrying!” “I admit I can be a little cavalier,” Cooke conceded.
As an editor, she has cut many of the Coens’ movies, including “The Big Lebowski” and “O Brother, Where Art Thou?” The enforced hiatus of covid also prodded them to dig up a script they’d written in the early two-thousands. They decided to rewrite it. It was originally titled “Drive-Away Dykes.” “Me and Ethan met on a movie in 1989, in New Orleans, and we were very close friends, best friends, for years,” Cooke said. “I’d come out in college, and I identified as a lesbian.
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