Star-studded cameos in ‘Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery’

“Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery” is lastly out, and the movie has a stacked solid — and even consists of closing appearances from the late Angela Lansbury and Stephen Sondheim.

The sequel to Rian Johnson’s 2019 “Knives Out” has Daniel Craig returning to his position as detective Benoit Blanc, this time for a brand new journey with new characters.

The star-studded solid consists of Edward Norton, Janelle Monáe, Kathryn Hahn, Leslie Odom Jr., Jessica Henwick, Madelyn Cline, Kate Hudson and Dave Bautista.

However on high of the notable solid checklist, Johnson, 49, additionally threw in some shocking cameos.

In what in the end turned the ultimate on-screen look for both icon, each Lansbury and Sondheim seem early on within the film in a Zoom name with Blanc in the course of the early days of COVID-19.

The group within the Zoom makes an attempt to play the net thriller online game “Amongst Us.”

Lansbury died in October at 96 — just some days in need of her 97th birthday. She died at house in her sleep, in accordance with an announcement from her household despatched to The Publish.

The cameo she bought within the film honors her credit within the thriller style, particularly her position as Jessica Fletcher in “Homicide, She Wrote,” which ran for 12 seasons from 1984 to 1996.

Broadway legend Sondheim died in November 2021 at 91. 

“It means a lot that they had been within the film,” Johnson instructed Entertainment Weekly of the 2 late stars’ cameos. “It means much more to me that I bought 10 minutes with every of them to simply inform them what their work meant to me, which was very, very particular.”

Johnson defined that after they had been pondering of who they might have make a cameo for the “very small, enjoyable little second,” they thought, “‘Who can be the pie-in-the-sky, we’ll-never-get-them thought?’”

“With Angela Lansbury, she’s extraordinary in so some ways in her connection to the style. She’s only a hero,” he mentioned.

“After which Sondheim has a large connection to the murder-mystery style. He was a puzzle and thriller nut,” Johnson continued. “He co-wrote, with Anthony Perkins, ‘The Final of Sheila,’ which our movie takes an enormous web page from when it comes to the setup. And lots of people don’t know [it’s] the one straight play he ever wrote that wasn’t a musical was a whodunit.”

Additionally seen in the identical Zoom name as Lansbury and Sondheim had been NBA star Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and “Russian Doll” actress Natasha Lyonne.

Abdul-Jabbar wasn’t the one athlete to make a cameo in “Glass Onion.”

Serena Williams, 41, made a cameo via a health app positioned on the wall of the health club. 

At first, it seems Williams’ private coach character is proven via a pre-taped video, however as Craig and Monáe’s character chat within the health club, Williams asks the pair if both of them plans to work out.

One cameo within the sequel helps make a giant revelation for Blanc’s character.

Hugh Grant, 62, seems in a scene the place he opens the door after a field is delivered to Blanc’s condominium — acknowledging that Blanc lives with a male accomplice.

Craig, 54, instructed the Sunday Times that his character being gay “simply feels proper.”

“We didn’t need to be coy or cute about it. We simply needed it to be a truth of the character,” Johnson added.

Ethan Hawke made an “unplanned” cameo within the movie as “Environment friendly Man,” in accordance with the film credit.

Hawke, 52, greets Miles Bron (Norton) and Blanc’s company as they board a ship in Greece, spraying a substance into the company’ mouths that seemingly immunizes folks from COVID-19.

In an early scene from the movie, cellist Yo-Yo Ma may be seen at a celebration hosted by Hudson’s Birdie Jay through which he helps resolve Bron’s mysterious invite to his personal island.

There are additionally a few cameos within the movie that aren’t seen on-screen.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt, 41, provides the sounds for the hourly chime that rings on the personal island.

Jeremy Renner, 51, can also be not bodily within the movie, however the actor will get a shout-out when his faux superstar model sizzling sauce is used within the plot.

“Glass Onion: A Knives Out Thriller” is streaming now on Netflix.