“There’s a touch of Tennessee Williams in there,” Daniel Craig says of Benoit Blanc’s now-iconic drawl. “There’s a touch of the historian Shelby Foote. It’s trying to create something that’s a bit otherworldly.”Photographs by Emily Soto
“What I love the most is that I got an opportunity to now call these people family,” Janelle Monáe says of her Glass Onion castmates.
“It helped make the moments feel even more real and the fun more genuine.”
Monáe plays Cassandra “Andi” Brand in the film.
“Are you innocent? Are you guilty?” Glass Onion’s Kate Hudson asks.
“You play into certain things differently for the sake of the roller coaster you want the audience to be on.”
Hudson plays disgraced former model Birdie Jay in Glass Onion.
“Rian’s just the most fantastic puzzle maker,” Edward Norton says of Glass Onion director Rian Johnson.
In Glass Onion, Norton plays lynchpin tech billionaire Miles Bron.
“We were able to play both guilty and innocent at the same time,” Kathryn Hahn says; Hahn plays political aspirant Claire Debella.
“People are all that all the time, all at once. Nobody is as righteous or good or whatever we're projecting to be all the time.”
“Being a fan of the first movie, I saw Rian’s real love for the ensemble nature of the storytelling,” Glass Onion ensemble member Leslie Odom Jr. says.
Odom Jr. takes on the role of scientist and Bron consultant Lionel Toussaint in Glass Onion.
“One of my favorite movies growing up was Clue,” says Jessica Henwick.
“And ever since then, I have been obsessed with trying to get into one.” Mission accomplished.
In Glass Onion, Henwick plays Birdie’s long-suffering assistant, Peg.
“I loved knowing what was going to happen,” Madelyn Cline gloats on the twists and turns of Glass Onion.
In Glass Onion, Cline plays Whiskey, sidekick and partner to Dave Bautista’s macho meathead Duke Cody.
It gives the audience some expectations and the appearance of a puzzle to solve,” Glass Onion writer/director Rian Johnson says of playing in the murder mystery genre. “You can take that and put it over other genres, and have a lot of fun and play with the form.”
