Yet, her short performance is among the most memorable in Jim Jarmusch’s latest movie, which boasts an all-star cast, including Adam Driver, Bill Murray, Chloe Sevigny, Steve Buscemi, and Danny Glover. Gomez’s character is clearly a “cool girl” in the most Gone Girl sense of the word — one of the movie’s gags has the town’s motel owner referring to Zoe and her male friends as “hipsters from Cleveland” — but she’s also got an earthy, grounded quality that draws us in. You want to be friends with Zoe. You want her to show you where she buys her 1970s-style jean shorts and muscle tees, so you, too, can look like you stepped off of the set of Jaws. You want her to notice you, to focus her attention on you, to smile at you. To quote a strangely morbid internet phrase used to describe that kind of big female energy, you want Zoe to run you over with that slick car of hers.
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