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As part of her press tour for Honey Dont! – the second installment of a lesbian trilogy from Ethan Coen – Margaret Qualley covers Cosmopolitan. Blue Moon, the Richard Linklater film she’s in, is set to premiere this fall. She had recently finished working on Huntington, a dark comedy–thriller she leads alongside Glen Powell, and is currently starring in Happy Gilmore 2.
On falling in love with husband, Jack Antonoff: “Falling in love with Jack was the biggest feeling I’ve ever felt. We met right as COVID was ending, at the first party I’d been to. We saw each other on a roof, and we just started talking and never stopped. We went on a series of walks throughout the city that summer.”
Who said ‘I love you’ first: “He did, obviously. I’m very old-school about stuff like this. I would never put myself out there first. I never text twice. I mean, now we’re married and I can text him anything at any time. We’re always having a conversation; he’s like my human diary. But before we were together, at the beginning, I would always follow Southern girl etiquette.”
What Sue, from The Substance, taught her: “The Substance was like entering the eye of the storm. It was like dealing with all of my shit, my mom’s shit, generations of trauma.⁹ It was a nightmare, being this idyllic, youthful fembot. No one thinks of themselves like that. The movie is not a good touchstone for what femininity is—it is quite masculine in a lot of ways. The thing I’ll take home with me, for sure, is Demi Moore. She’s such a special person. She’s strong and she’s wise, but she’s also incredibly soft and porous.”
On getting into character to play a queer detective in Honey Don’t!: “She’s a bit like a cool-guy player. I don’t know why, but for some reason, I made my physicality kind of like Matty Healy. I tried to do it like Matty Healy would do it. I got to feel what it would be like to be a guy hitting on a girl.”
On her “big queer fan base”: “I love the gays, thank you.”
