Miley Cyrus’ Cameo with Matt Damon and More! All About Those Wild Twists in 'Drive-Away Dolls' (original) (raw)

(Left to right:) Miley Cyrus, Matt Damon, Geraldine Viswanathan and Margaret Qualley in "Drive-Away Dolls". Photo:

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Drive-Away Dolls has many of the twists, turns and flights of fancy fans might expect of an Ethan Coen-directed movie. Case in point: among its all-star cast is a wild celebrity cameo who goes uncredited in the film.

Miley Cyrus appears amid the trippiest sequences in the dark comedy-thriller (in theaters now), which stars Margaret Qualley and Geraldine Viswanathan as a pair of lesbians trekking cross-country while unknowingly toting sensitive materials in their drive-away vehicle.

The origins of those materials in the women’s trunk are teased gradually throughout the movie, which cuts between the road trip and the criminal shenanigans of a sinister character played by Colman Domingo and his goons, played by Joey Slotnick and C.J. Wilson.

It turns out they’re all working for a rising U.S. senator named Gary Channel, played by none other than Matt Damon.

Caught in the crosshairs are Beanie Feldstein as a cop, Bill Camp as a drive-away service specialist and Pedro Pascal.

The latter actor plays a particularly shocking role in _Drive-Away Dolls_’ twisty plot as — spoiler alert — a collector of sex toys fashioned from the genitalia of powerful men. Said men will stop at nothing to cover up the existence of said toys.

Soon after Pascal, listed on IMDb as only The Collector, is introduced in the film, he is stabbed with a wine corkscrew and his decapitated head ends up in a hat box.

As glimpsed in one of the movie’s trailers, Cyrus, 31, first appears in one of the colorful sequences that punctuate _Drive-Away Dolls_’ scene transitions. Dressed in a flowy robe-like outfit, her hippie look is complete with long blonde hair and bangs. Her character’s name is Tiffany Plastercaster — an homage to real-life artist Cynthia Plaster Caster, as Coen and co-writer Tricia Cooke revealed in an interview with The Wrap.

Miley Cyrus in 2023.

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Not long after Qualley and Viswanathan’s characters have learned they accidentally possess the most absurd possible blackmail on a famous senator — a steel briefcase full of the phalluses, plus The Collector's severed head in the hat box — a seemingly de-aged Damon is then glimpsed in bed with the Hannah Montana star in flashback.

As the Oscar winner, 53, writhes with pleasure in an apparently drug-induced haze, Cyrus can be seen straddling him and uttering assurances that the two will be together forever. Although nothing below the waist is shown, it becomes clear that Tiffany is molding a cast of his penis for what will become one of the sex toys destined for the briefcase.

Cooke told The Wrap that casting Cyrus in her cameo was a perfect fit because the Grammy winner is “into her phalluses” and allegedly “has a whole room devoted to phalluses.”

“I was telling her about Cynthia Plaster Caster, ‘I don’t know if you know. Your character’s based on Cynthia,’” Cooke told the outlet. “She’s like, ‘I thought that’s why you called me.’ Big fondness for Cynthia Plaster Caster.”

Drive-Away Dolls is helmed by both Coen and Cooke, who has been married to the Fargo filmmaker since 1990 and an editor on many of his movies.

(Left to right:) Geraldine Viswanathan, Margaret Qualley and Beanie Feldstein in "Drive-Away Dolls".

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Speaking with Collider of their collaboration on Drive-Away Dolls, which they first drafted years ago, Cooke said that while her husband and his brother Joel “make highbrow movies… we make lowbrow movies.”

The brothers’ work together includes 1998’s The Big Lebowski and 2013’s Inside Llewyn Davis, among others. They began working separately in recent years, with Joel Coen directing 2021’s The Tragedy of Macbeth solo.

Drive-Away Dolls is now in theaters.