The following contains minor spoilers glass onion.
love you knives out first, from Netflix glass onion It has an absolutely stellar cast. However, Rian Johnson’s new film takes it a step further as not only is the cast of suspects filled with top-notch talent, but a scene early in the film includes four absolutely astounding cameos and it just so happens to be thanks to that of those cameos Rian Johnson managed to get another, because Stephen Sondheim was the reason Johnson was able to bring in Angela Lansbury.
Apparently getting Stephen Sondheim to make an appearance was pretty easy, as Rian Johnson’s producing partner Ram Bergman said. New York Times who just told his agent they wanted Sondheim, and minutes later the deal was done. It was when Rian Johnson was recording the part of Sondheim, via Zoom, that the subject of Angela Lansbury came up and the musical theater icon told the director to let it go. Johnson explained…
i mentioned [Sondheim] that we were trying to get Angela Lansbury. And he said, ‘Oh, Angie, I’m a friend of hers. Tell him I want it. She will.
That really seems like all it took for Angela Lansbury to come together glass onion. The cameos are very special now that Sondheim and Lansbury are dead after filming their scene. Johnson is apparently a huge fan of musical theater and a big one too The murder he wrote fans, then make them appear on glass onion it was a big deal to him.
The first time we see Daniel Craig’s Benoit Blanc in glass onion the detective is sitting in his bathtub playing video games. It lines up with an absolutely stellar cast of Stephen Sondheim, Angela Lansbury, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Johnson’s Poker face protagonist Natasha Lyonne. We also find out later that Hugh Grant is in the next room. Blanc and his famous friends play a multiplayer video game Between us, for which white is particularly bad. In reality, the video game element was much more difficult for Lansbury to understand. Johnson continued…
He’s not a player. And he was very patient with letting me describe the Among Us rules, up to a point. At that point, he just said, ‘You know what? Just tell me what the lines are. I will trust you.’
It appears that all of the individual video segments were shot separately, so none of the other artists worked directly with Stephen Sondheim or Angela Lansbury. Yet, glass onion it can become an iconic film simply by being the latest on-screen representation of two absolute legends of entertainment. glass onion is now available to stream on Netflix.
Source: Cinemablend
