- Daniel Craig said the cast was “blessed” by Angela Lansbury’s cameo in “Glass Onion.”
- Lansbury died of natural causes on Tuesday at the age of 96.
- At a press conference at the London Film Festival, Craig said Lansbury had lived an “incredible” life.
“Glass Onion” star Daniel Craig said the cast is “blessed” to have the late Angela Lansbury appear in the upcoming “Knives Out” movie.
Lansbury, best known for her role in the long-running CBS murder mystery, “Murder I Wrote,” died of natural causes Tuesday at the age of 96. The Tony Award winning actress makes her last appearance in the sequel “Knives Out.” .
During a press conference at the London Film Festival, Craig and director Rian Johnson spoke about the “honour” of Lansbury having agreed to appear in the much-anticipated mystery film.
“Angela Lansbury has been in my life my whole life,” Craig said. “I mean my favorite movie is Bedknobs and Broomsticks.”
Lansbury starred in the 1971 Disney film, playing a witch’s apprentice.
Craig added, “We’ve been so lucky and what an incredible life it has been.”
Stephen Sondheim, who died in November 2021, also made a cameo alongside Lansbury due to their past affiliations with onscreen murder mysteries.
“They were so kind and generous,” Johnson said of the late celebrities. “When we thought, ‘Oh my God, do you think they’d ever do that?'” “We didn’t think they’d do that and both were great and Angela was so much fun.”
He continued, “I went to her house with my laptop to photograph her doing a little thing and saying, ‘I don’t know what any of this means, so just tell me if I’m saying it right’.”
Johnson also said it was “really special” that he was able to tell both stars what their work meant to him as a “murder and mystery junkie”.
“Anyone who knows this kind of mystery game, Sondheim has deep roots in it,” Johnson said. “He was a puzzle addict but also co-wrote one of my favorite films, ‘The Last of Sheila’ with Anthony Perkins, from which we took a page on this movie. So, for a number of reasons, that meant a lot of being hosted there.”
“Glass Onion,” starring Janelle Mooney, Catherine Hahn and Dave Bautista, hits theaters November 11 for a limited time. It arrives on Netflix on December 23.
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