Casting directors from the Glass Onion movie, Netflix’s current high-flying murder mystery flick, explained the celebrity cameos from the Queen of court, Serena Williams, to 19-time-Grammy-winner, Yo Yo Ma, and the invisible Joseph Gordon-Levitt. Read on for everything you need to know!
Two days before Christmas, Netflix debuted Rian Johnson’s new film, Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery. Within hours of its release, The Glass Onion movie was streamed for 82.1 million hours.
But despite the impressive figures, it did not top the network’s film debut charts. The modern mystery became the sixth biggest film debut behind Sandra Bullock’s The Unforgivable and Ryan Gosling’s The Gray Man.
Yet fans of Johnson’s brilliant work have only shown interest in the storyline, making it almost impossible to amass criticisms. Its score on Rotten Tomatoes is 93%, and on IMDb, 7.3.
Ranking the Movie as a must-watch is not challenging as its writer supported the suspense-filled story with talented actors and celebrity cameos. As if that wasn’t enough, Glass Onion movie directors have blessed fans with exclusive details on casting the cameos.
Glass Onion Cameos Breakdown
The Glass Onion movie directors, including Mary Vernieu and her colleague, Bret Howe, whom she worked with on the first Knives Out, teamed up for the latest casting.
Vernieu admitted that some of the cameos celebrities, including Angela Lansbury, Stephen Sondheim, both deceased, and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar & Natasha Lyonne, have a connection to mystery. She said:
Truly, Lansbury headlined “Murder, She Wrote,” while Jabbar has authored books about Sherlock Holmes. Also, Lyonne appears in Johnson’s detective series “Poker face, while Sondheim is a mystery lover.
Others included tennis pro Williams, the 19-time Grammy-winner Ma, and Gordon-Levitt. Williams, who was cast because of Johnson’s likeness for her sports, first appeared as a poster in Miles Bron’s gym room (Edward Norton), but she offered the witty detective Benoit Blanc (Daniel Craig) session.
On the other hand, Gordon-Levitt, who was invisible in the film, providing the hourly gong noise on Bron’s Island, has been a steady feature in Johnson’s works.
He played a cameo in Knives Out, and teamed up with the winter in the action-comedy The Brothers Bloom.
Ma was the party guest who assisted Birdie (Kate Hudson) in decoding the complex invitation box from Bron.
