'Knives Out' Director Confirms That Daniel Craig's Character Benoit Blanc Is 'Obviously' Queer

Daniel Craig's Knives Out character Benoit Blanc is an individual from the LGBTQ people group, as indicated by the movie's chief.


Throughout the end of the week, movie producer Rian Johnson and Craig, 54, showed up at a question and answer session during the London Film Celebration, where the pair uncovered that the entertainer's eccentric analyst is in an equivalent sex relationship.


As per Insider, a scene in Glass Onion: A Knives Out Secret — the continuation of 2019's Knives Out — demonstrates that Blanc is living with a man.

'Knives Out' Director Confirms That Daniel Craig's Character Benoit Blanc Is 'Obviously' Queer

At the point when gotten some information about the scene and whether Blanc is eccentric, Johnson, 48, answered, "Indeed, he clearly is," the power source reports.


"Also, there's no one on the planet I can envision in giving me more pleasure for Benoit Blanc to be with," he kept, referring to the entertainer who will star as Blanc's sweetheart. Craig added, "No spoilers, [but] who would have no desire to live with that individual?"


Close by Craig repeating his job as Blanc, Glass Onion likewise stars Kate Hudson, Leslie Odom Jr., Edward Norton, Janelle Monáe, Kathryn Hahn, Jessica Henwick, Madelyn Cline and Dave Bautista.


In the mean time, Hugh Award, Yo Mama and the late Angela Lansbury and Stephen Sondheim are credited as playing themselves, as per Amusement Week after week.


The spin-off centers around tech very rich person Miles Bron (Norton, 53), who welcomes companions for an outing to his confidential island, however one of them before long breezes up dead.


Plans for a subsequent film were first declared in February 2020 and later affirmed in Walk 2021 as Netflix paid more than $400 million for the freedoms to the establishment. The film started shooting in Greece in June 2021 and closed in September of that year.


The main secret trailer for the film was delivered in September, making way for another homicide secret.


Beside Craig's Blanc being highlighted in the two movies, apparently there isn't any relationship between's the two activities, since they include two totally various killings and suspects. Johnson likewise explained that Knives Out 2 serves more as an independent than a spin-off.


"I've never truly been keen on doing spin-offs, yet this, accomplishing a greater amount of these with Daniel as his personality, isn't continuations," the movie producer told Uproxx in 2019.


He added, "It's exactly what Agatha Christie did. It's simply thinking of a totally different secret, a totally different area, all new cast, totally different mechanics of the allure of a secret and everything. It'd be an impact."


Glass Onion: A Knives Out Secret is spilling on Netflix Dec. 23.