Miley Cyrus and Elaine May Will Co-Star with Woody Allen in His New Amazon TV Series

About this time last year, word came out that prolific film writer/director Woody Allen made a deal to write and direct every episode of a new TV series for Amazon. A few months later, Allen said in an interview that he regretted making the deal and he didn't even know what a streaming service was. "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’ve been struggling and struggling and struggling," he said. So...things weren't looking good.

But Allen has a deadline at the end of 2016, so the show must go on. Deadline reports that he's cast his leading ladies, and they're very unusual choices: Elaine May (writer/director of Ishtar, writer of The Birdcage, Heaven Can Wait, and Primary Colors) and Miley Cyrus (self-explanatory). The singer summed up her feelings about joining the project with the eloquence you'd expect from her:

Fuck yeah ! Stoked to be in Woody Allens first series!!!!! I had claimed 2016 to be my year of "chillin the fuck 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

Cyrus has been popping up all over the place lately. She appeared in The Night Before, as well as A Very Murray Christmas, and now she's jumping into an auteur-driven TV series. Since the only thing we really know about Allen's new show is that it takes place in the 1960s, Cyrus obviously won't be playing herself this time around, so it'll be interesting to see how she fits in to Allen's world and how Allen himself handles the pressure of delivering six half-hour episodes of television.