Warning: Minor spoilers forward for “Glass Onion.”
The knives apparently aren’t the one issues popping out in Netflix’s homicide thriller sequel “Glass Onion: A Knives Out Thriller.”
Director Rian Johnson confirmed that Benoit Blanc, the movie’s lead character performed by “James Bond” star Daniel Craig, is “clearly” queer on the London Movie Competition press convention on Sunday morning.
The extremely anticipated sequel to 2019’s blockbuster whodunit reportedly touches on the famed detective’s private life with one temporary scene indicating that Blanc is “residing with a person,” in response to Insider.
When requested whether or not the character is queer, Johnson replied, “Sure he clearly is,” per the outlet.
The spoilery tidbit was corroborated by others on the pageant, with one noting that the “entire room went wild” upon Johnson’s “emphatic” reply.
Johnson went on to deal with an unnamed actor who reportedly performs Blanc’s lover within the movie, remarking that there’s “no person on the planet I can think about in bringing me extra pleasure for Benoit Blanc to be with.”
Craig, in the meantime, added, “Who wouldn’t need to stay with that particular person?”
Whereas that cameo remains to be being stored below wraps, a plotline from the movie involving performances from Angela Lansbury and Stephen Sondheim, who each died since filming, has been revealed on-line.
“Glass Onion” marks the ultimate onscreen appearances of Lansbury and Sondheim, whom Johnson described as “so form and so beneficiant.”
“We thought, my God, would both of them ever do it? We didn’t suppose they might. And each of them had been so cool,” he mentioned, in response to Deadline. “For each of them, in addition to simply the distinction of getting them within the film, personally simply having the ability to have 10 minutes with every of them to inform them what their work has meant to me was actually particular.”
The sequel, which additionally stars Kate Hudson, Leslie Odom Jr., Kathryn Hahn, Edward Norton, Janelle Monae, Jessica Henwick, Madelyn Cline and Dave Bautista, picks up with a brand new homicide thriller on a paradisal Grecian isle.
“A tech billionaire Miles Bron (Edward Norton) invitations a few of his nearest and dearest for a getaway on his non-public Greek island, it quickly turns into clear that every one is just not good in paradise,” per the official synopsis. “And when somebody turns up useless, nicely, who higher than Blanc to peel again the layers of intrigue?”
The movie, which arrives on Netflix Dec. 23, will first be screened for a restricted one-week theatrical launch a month prior as a part of a historic deal with the streaming service and three main home film chains.
“I’m thrilled that Netflix has made this deal for theatrical in November,” Johnson mentioned on the press convention. “I really like individuals watching it at dwelling. Although if individuals need see it within the theater, I need them to have the chance to — and to see it with a crowd.”
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