Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery – it gay, your honor!
At a press conference yesterday, the director of the much-anticipated Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery confirmed that Daniel Craig’s character Benoit Blanc is “obviously” gay. Rian Johnson, who directed Knives Out as well confirmed this news at the BFI London Film Festival on Sunday.
Netflix and Johnson’s representatives have double and triple confirmed Blanc’s sexuality as well. Glass Onion is rumored to include a scene with a former lover of Benoit Blanc.
While the identity of the actor playing Benoit Blanc’s love interest is being kept under wraps, Craig himself gives a nod to the actor and says, “No spoilers [but] who wouldn’t want to live with that person?”
Johnson added that there is no one else in the world that would bring him more joy for Benoit Blanc to be with than the man they cast to star alongside Craig.
According to Netflix, the story is definitely in keeping with the whodunnit genre.
“When tech billionaire Miles Bron (Edward Norton) invites some of his nearest and dearest for a getaway on his private Greek island, it soon becomes clear that all is not perfect in paradise. And when someone turns up dead, well, who better than Blanc (Daniel Craig) to peel back the layers of intrigue?”
Johnson says that, in Glass Onion, viewers will get to know their leading man quite a bit better.
“You definitely get to know him a little bit better,” Johnson told Netflix. “In the first one, because of the way it was structured, Marta, Ana de Armas’ character, was very much the protagonist. In a big way, Blanc was the threat. He was almost the antagonist in terms of just the story structure, because you were worried, even as they got closer, that he was going to catch her and he was going to have to turn her over at the end.
“So Blanc was always outside of the sphere of our protagonist and was a little bit more of an enigma in the first movie. Whereas, in this one, Blanc gets an invitation to come to this murder mystery on this island. We’re very much meeting these people and getting into this world through his eyes.”
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery will premiere in select theaters on a to-be-announced date, and globally on Netflix on December 23. You can add Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery to your Netflix “My List” here. Follow us on Twitter and Instagram for all queer stuff.
