When a film drops with Aubrey Plaza and Margaret Qualley as lovers, you already know the sapphics are going to be seated, strapped in, and ready to lose their collective minds. Honey Don’t! hasn’t even hit wide release yet, and the internet is already a mess – not over the film itself (although the “lesbian panic” scenes are giving), but over the way these two actresses are treating the press tour like an IRL rom-com.
Red carpets have become flirt grounds. Interviews look like soft launches. Cooking shows are basically date nights. And the sapphics online are eating it up (including us, obvs). Shout out to Aubrey and Margaret, we’re here for the bonus content. Read on for the best Aubrey Plaza and Margaret Qualley moments below.
1. Aubrey Plaza and Margaret Qualley’s Red Carpet Bum Pat at Cannes Goes Viral
Let’s start with the Cannes carpet, because it’s a good one. Margaret Qualley casually slid her hand onto Aubrey Plaza’s bum while they posed for photos.
2. The Honey Don’t “Lesbian Panic” Scene
If you haven’t seen the viral TikTok clip yet – where have you been? In one Honey Don’t! scene, Margaret struts into frame in full femme fatale mode, heels “click-clacking” against the floor. Watch below.
TikTok has officially dubbed it the “lesbian panic” scene, and it’s already racking up reaction videos, duets, thirst edits, and sapphic essays longer than your dissertation.
3. Aubrey Plaza and Margaret Qualley Flirt While Making Pizza on NYT Cooking
Aubrey and Margaret popped up together on NYT Cooking to make pizza, and it was everything. We get side-eye flirting, and the sapphics of Instagram quickly declared it a date night. Watch the moment Aubrey wipes pizza off or Margaret’s face below.
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4. Why Aubrey Plaza and Margaret Qualley’s Honey Don’t! Interviews Feel Like a Flirty Rom-Com
Margaret has become the queen of dodging questions about her actual husband (Jack Antonoff, if you care – but right now, sapphics do not), while Aubrey slips into her signature deadpan flirting style, only half-joking with every quip.
On-screen lovers plus off-screen chemistry equals instant gay fantasy fuel. For many fans, it feels like watching sapphic cinema spill out of the screen and onto the street and lets face it, representation hunger is real.
Between the lesbian panic clip, the pizza date flirting, and the bum-pat on the red carpet, they’ve served sapphics everywhere a binge-worthy IRL snack. On top of all that, it’s also kind of beautiful to watch their off-screen bond as friends unfold – especially as Aubrey moves through life after Jeff Baena’s heartbreaking passing in January. She’s called grief ‘a daily struggle’ and seeing support and real friendship is exactly what hearts need right now.
Don’t forget to mark your diaries for when Honey Dont! is set to stream.
Nonchalant x
This article was written by one of our creative team writers here at Nonchalant Magazine.
