Ethan Coen and Tricia Cooke on the Making of ‘Drive-Away Dolls’

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Drive-Away Dolls, was unable to be released under its original moniker: “Drive-Away Dykes.”“It was something just for commercial reasons,” adds Tricia Cooke, who co-wrote the film with Coen and edited the finished product. “There are movie theaters that won’t release the movie with that title and the MPA [Motion Picture Association] kind of dictates what your title can be.

We were told we couldn’t use it.”“To be fair, the studio, Focus, has been great,” chimes in Coen. “They were totally open to releasing with that title.

It made them laugh. But it wasn’t going to happen, sadly.”“Yeah, it was the great heartbreak of making the movie,” says Cooke, “not being able to use the original title.”“But you can use it in your headline,” grins Coen, impishly. “The more you use it, the better.”In a clever wink of a moment, the pair sneak the original title into the film anyway.

It’s a capper to a film that, for a brisk 84 minutes, follows the crazed exploits of starched lesbian Marian (Geraldine Viswanathan) and her brash, Texan wiseacre chum Jamie (Margaret Qualley) as they travel to Florida in a car from a drive-away service that they were most definitely not supposed to drive away in.In the trunk of that car lie some eye-popping surprises — surprises that put some bad yet bumbling men, led by The Chief (a sinister Colman Domingo), on their trail.