{"id":67014,"date":"2025-08-14T18:32:20","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T18:32:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/67014\/"},"modified":"2025-08-14T18:32:20","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T18:32:20","slug":"aubrey-plaza-details-getting-ready-to-play-madam-heidi-fleiss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/67014\/","title":{"rendered":"Aubrey Plaza Details Getting Ready to Play Madam Heidi Fleiss"},"content":{"rendered":"

Following a world premiere at Cannes<\/a>, Ethan Coen<\/a> held the North American premiere for \u201cHoney Don\u2019t!\u201d at Metrograph in Manhattan on Wednesday, August 13. The dark comedy follows Honey, played by Margaret Qualley<\/a>, who is investigating a local cult. Aubrey Plaza<\/a>, Charlie Day, and Billy Eichner co-star in the film<\/a>, co-written with Tricia Cooke.<\/p>\n

IndieWire caught up with Plaza on the red carpet, where she detailed getting ready to play Hollywood Madam Heidi Fleiss<\/a>, who ran the \u201cworld\u2019s largest high-end prostitution ring\u201d and counted actors, politicians, and other leading men among its clients in the \u201990s. \u201cI\u2019ve been on this track for a while,\u201d she told IndieWire.<\/p>\n

\"Angel's<\/a> \"It<\/a> <\/p>\n

\u201cI got it in my head that I wanted to play her a couple of years ago and I\u2019ve never played a real-life person before. It\u2019s a different kind of scale, challenge, that I\u2019m really excited about, and I just think she\u2019s an incredible person, incredible character. The story is insane. She\u2019s done something that probably nobody else has ever done, and she\u2019s still going. I think she\u2019s the ultimate badass icon and she deserves the royal treatment. We shall give it to her.\u201d<\/p>\n

As for whether Plaza has talked with Fleiss, she said, \u201cI have not spoken with her, [but] I hope so. I hope to make a little trip to her place in the desert at some point. Spiritually I feel her. I\u2019ve heard she\u2019s very excited about it. We\u2019re in early stages.\u201d<\/p>\n

Plaza will be reuniting with Coen next month in \u201cLet\u2019s Love!,\u201d an Off-Broadway play he wrote, with performances starting on Thursday, September 25 and opening on Wednesday, October 15. \u201cHe actually came into my trailer when we wrapped \u2018Honey, Don\u2019t!\u2019 and he was like, \u2018I wrote this play. I think I wrote it for you and didn\u2019t realize it. Will you do it?\u2019 And I was like, \u2018I\u2019ll literally do anything you tell me to do.\u2019 So here I go.\u201d <\/p>\n

\"NEWEthan Coen, Aubrey Plaza, Margaret Qualley, Charlie Day, Tricia Cooke, Billy Eichner and Lena Hall attend the \u201cHoney Don\u2019t\u201d New York Screening at Metrograph on August 13, 2025 in New York City. Getty Images<\/p>\n

As for Qualley, the Golden Globe-nominee tapped into her musical side for the first time, creating alter ego Lace Manhattan around this film. While she has appeared in music videos for the likes of Bleachers and Rainsford, her vocal chops soar in two songs for the film, produced by husband Jack Antonoff and co-written by director Coen. \u201cIt was so fun,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cMe and my friend Talia Ryder got together to make these videos as if we were pop stars and there\u2019s not much to explain other than girls having fun.\u201d As for whether any of Antonoff\u2019s collaborators, which include Lana Del Rey and Sabrina Carpenter, to name a few, gave her any musical advice, she said, \u201cOh, no. I wasn\u2019t even involved with the music making. I\u2019m just acting the part.\u201d<\/p>\n

She will soon be seen in Ridley Scott\u2019s post-apocalyptic thriller \u201cThe Dog Stars,\u201d<\/a> which filmed earlier this year alongside Jacob Elordi and Josh Brolin. \u201cIt was cool,\u201d Qualley said of working with the director. \u201cHe\u2019s such a well oiled machine. It was a scale of movie making I hadn\u2019t really experienced before.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cHoney Don\u2019t!\u201d premieres August 22 in theaters from Focus Features. Check out the trailer here<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Following a world premiere at Cannes, Ethan Coen held the North American premiere for \u201cHoney Don\u2019t!\u201d at Metrograph…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":67015,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[35192,6491,96,2332,2580,11054,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-67014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-aubrey-plaza","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-film","tag-interviews","tag-margaret-qualley","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67014\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}