By Ethan Anderton/Jan. 26, 2016 8:30 am EST
Deadline has the latest casting update on the series which will take place in the 1960s, but beyond that, no details on the characters the two actresses will play have been revealed. As usual, Allen is being secretive about his project, so we probably won’t know anything about it until there’s a trailer released.
Cyrus is quite the surprising choice for Allen’s new leading lady, and it’ll be interesting to see if he sticks with her for a few projects as he’s done with Scarlett Johansson and Emma Stone in recent years. Here’s what Cyrus posted on Instagram, and as you can see, she’s a wordsmith:
F*** yeah ! Stoked to be in Woody Allens first series!!!!! I had claimed 2016 to be my year of “chillin the f*** out” but next to my bed for a few years now has been this portrait of W.A. & I was looking into his eyes when I got the call to be apart of the cast and work alongside the bad a$$ Elaine May & da dude himself! 1960zzzz here I cummmmm ????????????????????
A photo posted by Miley Cyrus (@mileycyrus) on Jan 25, 2016 at 5:22pm PST
But everyone should really be excited about Elaine May, because she hasn’t acted since being in Allen’s Small Time Crooks back in 2000. For those who don’t know, May also wrote The Birdcage and Primary Colors, in addition to directing the disaster that was Ishtar.
“I had the cocky confidence, well, I’ll do it like I do a movie…it’ll be a movie in six parts. Turns out, it’s not. For me, it has been very, very difficult. … I am not as good at it as I fantasized I might be. It’s not a piece of cake; it’s a tough thing and I’m earning every penny that they’re giving me and I just hope that they don’t feel, ‘My God, we gave him a very substantial amount of money and freedom and this is what he gives us?’”
