Daniel Craig says his character’s gay relationship in Knives Out ‘just feels right’

Daniel Craig has spoken out on his character’s gay relationship in the Knives Out sequel Glass Onion.

The 007 actor returns to his role as detective Benoit Blanc in the follow-up to the 2019 movie Knives Out, with the second offering, which arrives on Netflix on December 23 after a cinema release last month, showing his character living with another man.

Speaking about the relationship, Daniel, 54, told the Sunday Times that it ‘just feels right’ and the romance ‘reflects people in my life.’ 

‘Let’s not make a song and dance out of it’: Daniel Craig has spoken out on his character’s gay relationship in the Knives Out sequel Glass Onion

Daniel explained that when making movies ‘you are supposed to reflect life’ And that [gay] relationship reflects people in my life.’

The actor, who married Rachel Weisz in 2011, added: ‘It’s normal. But we don’t want to make a song and dance out of it. It just feels right.’

The movie’s director Rhian Johnson added that ‘it just made sense to Daniel and me. We didn’t want to be coy or cute about it. We just wanted it to be a fact of the character.’ 

Lead role: The actor returns to his role as detective Benoit Blanc in the follow-up to the 2019 movie Knives Out, with the second offering showing his character living with another man

It was during a press conference at the London Film Festival in October that Rhian first revealed that Blanc is queer.

When asked about a particular scene in Glass Onion which shows Benoit with a male companion, the director responded when asked if that meant that character is gay with ‘Yes, he obviously is.’

The identity of the actor who plays Benoit’s partner is being kept a secret for moviegoers and while Daniel has refused to name his onscreen lover in interviews, he did tease Deadline in a recent interview that ‘who wouldn’t want to live with the human being that he happens to live with?’ 

‘The less of a song and dance we make about that, the better, really, for me, because it just made sense,’ he said. 

Detective: Speaking about the relationship, Daniel told the Sunday Times that it ‘just feels right’ and the relationship ‘reflects people in my life’ (pictured with co-stars Edward Norton and Madelyn Cline)

‘And also, as I said at the LFF, who wouldn’t want to live with the human being that he happens to live with? It’s nice, it’s fun. And why shouldn’t it be? I don’t want people to get politically hung up on anything.’

There’s more to come from Benoit as Rian has revealed he is already planning the third installment of the Knives Out franchise.

In a new interview, the 48-year-old director got candid about progress towards the third installment in the series.

‘It’s interesting. We structured the [Netflix deal] so that if I wanted to do something else next, I could. And I think everybody assumed I’d have a couple other random ideas — unrelated projects — that I’ve been kicking around. But, honestly, over the past couple of months, the most exciting creative thing to me right now is that third movie,’ he told Deadline.

At the helm: The movie’s director Rhian Johnson added that ‘it just made sense to Daniel and me. We didn’t want to be coy or cute about it’

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Johnson confirmed that the process has already begun as he is the creative mind behind the mystery series and also the director.

‘I’ve got a Moleskine notebook that I carry everywhere, and I’m constantly jotting stuff down in it. The first 80 percent of the process, for me, is scribbling in notebooks and structuring it all out,’ he shared.

‘I’m trying to get ahead. Even when I’m doing all the publicity for this film, I’m trying to start building up a structure, an idea, so that after New Year when it’s time to actually get to work, I’m hopefully not just staring at that horrible blank page. But you always are, I guess.’

Glass Onion arrives on Netflix on December 23. 

All-star: As with the first Knives Out movie, Johnson assembled an all-star cast for Glass Onion including Edward Norton, Daniel Craig, Kate Hudson, Janelle Monáe, Leslie Odom Jr., and Dave Bautista