Drive-Away Dolls’s Geraldine Viswanathan wants to be your next romcom queen
Geraldine Viswanathan is a minute or two late for our interview – she completely lost her car. When the 28-year-old star of Cat Person and Ethan Coen’s new film Drive-Away Dolls does appear on our video call, she’s sat in the front seat, laughing, holding her phone camera at a sort of Dutch angle to her face. “I’m in LA so it’s very, you know… A car is a second home,” she says, with a kind of throwaway pithiness.
It’s surely an apt enough vantage point as any from which to discuss , a riotous and pinball-paced road movie directed by half of the former sibling team behind and . In it, her character, Marian, is a bookish lesbian in the throes of a romantic dry spell. Pursued by bungling goons, she drives a rented Dodge Aries from Philadelphia to Tallahassee alongside her friend Jamie, a promiscuous free spirit (and fellow
