He had apparently been a fan of Johnson's for a while, so he jumped at the opportunity to work with the director. So Hawke trekked over to the Glass Onion set for a weekend with his family and shot one scene before much of the production took place.
Knives Out 2: Meet The Real Derol Who Inspired The Glass Onion Character. Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery director Rian Johnson created the hilarious stoner for Noah Segan to play based on his childhood friend.
The four friends on the screen are actor Natasha Lyonne, basketball star Kareem-Abdul Jabbar, and musical legends Angela Lansbury and Stephen Sondheim. While these appearances don't impact the plot of Glass Onion, it adds some humor and more star power.
His name is Phillip. I just basically thought who would it give me the most joy for Benoit Blanc to be with, and I thought Hugh Grant. He was such a joy to be with, he came to set for one day, did that one disconnected scene and trusted us to put it in the movie.
“Here's an interesting thing,” Johnson told Decider over Zoom. “So if you look at [Lyonne's] cameo on Glass Onion she's in the Charlie Cale makeup and look in her trailer in between setups on Poker Face. So it's Natasha, [and] in the world of Glass Onion, Poker Face is a show that his friend Natasha is shooting.”
"When we were writing Poker Face, Rian was editing Glass Onion," Lilla Zuckerman told Mashable. "So sometimes we would pitch things, and he would say, 'No, let's not do that. ' And now I realize it was because it was in Glass Onion."
More than anything, Glass Onion is a pastiche of rich people and the super-rich. The message is threefold: Rich people are not necessarily clever or wise (or more accurately, they're often stupid). Rich people are not normal (or more accurately, they're weird).
In an interview with Collider, Hugh Grant confirmed that his cameo character in Rian Johnson's Glass Onion, Phillip, is, in fact, married to Daniel Craig's character, the illustrious detective Benoit Blanc.
Are Hugh Grant and Daniel Craig a couple in Glass Onion?
Hugh Grant has confirmed that his character is married to Daniel Craig in "Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery." Grant only appears briefly in the film, which premiered on Netflix in December, answering the door at the home of Craig's lead character Benoit Blanc while he's in the bathtub.
As Glass Onion progressed, it was revealed that Helen, Andi's twin sister, was impersonating Andi to uncover the mystery of her twin's death and find her sister's killer.
Miles does, though, so did he clue into who his surprise guest really was at any point? Rian Johnson says the answer is no. After all, "Glass Onion" makes Klear that Miles Bron is an idiot. Supporting this, Johnson notes that Miles is just as shocked as the other characters when they realize "Andi" is really Helen.
In Glass Onion, Angela Lansbury plays one of Blanc's friends when the detective is shown playing Among Us in a video call with some friends, all of whom are a fun celebrity cameo for the audience to discover.
But this is a twisty film, and we soon learn Andi died before the island getaway, supposedly by suicide. Her twin sister, Helen, kept Andi's death under wraps, and went on the trip pretending to be her twin to try to solve the murder.
As the flashback catches up to real time, Benoit tells Helen to pretend to be dead as he figures out who shot her. The group gathers once again, and Benoit reveals it was Miles who killed Duke after Duke connected the dots that Miles killed Andi, and it was Miles who shot Helen.
In this case, they're all a group of close friends who used to meet at a bar named The Glass Onion. The mystery begins when one of them sends out an elaborate invitation to spend a weekend on his private estate in Greece.
Over the span of eight years, the Notting Hill actor welcomed five children with actress Tinglan Hong and his now-wife Anna Eberstein. Though Grant has kept his kids out of the public eye, he has occasionally discussed his family life. In 2018, the father of five shared that he loved making his kids laugh.
But it's not the all-star cast or Rian Johnson's new whodunit mystery that has fans talking–it's the cameo made by none other than the Love Actually star, Grant. Spoiler alert! In the film, Grant and Craig are living together as lovers–a detail that audiences can't help but celebrate and, in some cases, demand more of.
It is not known how much Hugh Grant was paid for his brief role in 2022's Glass Onion, the sequel to 2019's Knives Out. As Grant only had a cameo in the film, it is unlikely he was paid a large amount, possibly being paid in the hundreds of thousands or doing the part as a favor.
Netflix. Continuing with Birdie, the film further uses this character to shed light on sweatshops. Sweatshops are workplaces that are crowded, lack acceptable working conditions, and provide poor and unfair wages to the workers. In fact, these places violate a lot of labor laws and sometimes, child rights as well.
That is essentially how Glass Onion begins." Johnson wanted the film's title to refer to something hidden in plain sight. He chose "glass" because it is clear. He searched his phone for songs with the word, finally settling on "Glass Onion" by the Beatles.
While not every character has a direct celebrity parallel, a number can be tied to a variety of real-world events through the film's time setting. However, one character with a more overt connection is Edward Norton's Miles Bron, who is almost a carbon copy of Elon Musk and other billionaires.
Glass Onion features more sexual content than its predecessor, with a couple laying in bed and making out while wearing bathing suits. This scene is shown twice. Sex toys and sexual references are present as well. Language is heavy for PG-13 standards.
What could be interesting is Benoit Blanc, a famous detective in this world, appearing in an episode of Poker Face, perhaps as a nod to his friendship with Lyonne.
