Director Rian Johnson has shared that he tried to show Homicide, She Wrote star Angela Lansbury methods to play Amongst Us for her cameo in Glass Onion, however admitted that she was “not a gamer”.
Chatting with The New York Times, Johnson mirrored on Lansbury’s cameo in Glass Onion: A Knives Out Thriller, which noticed the late actress play Innersloth’s standard whodunnit sport Amongst Us alongside Natasha Lyonne, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Stephen Sondheim, and Benoit Blanc (Daniel Craig).
Johnson shared that Lansbury “couldn’t have been lovelier and extra beneficiant,” however admitted that she was “not a gamer” when it got here to Amongst Us, a online game that attracts parallels to Knives Out and Glass Onion by pitting a staff of gamers towards a assassin disguised as their teammate.
“She was very affected person in letting me describe the principles of Amongst Us, up to some extent,” mentioned Johnson. “At which level she simply mentioned, ‘You realize what? Simply inform me what the traces are. I’ll belief you.’”
Glass Onion was Lansbury’s last movie look, as she handed away in October 2022 – simply over a month earlier than the movie debuted. In response to her household, Lansbury died peacefully in her sleep at dwelling in Los Angeles – simply 5 days earlier than her 97th birthday.
Lansbury’s “A-list cameo” was acknowledged in our four-star evaluate of Glass Onion, which praised the movie’s gripping plot and star-studded solid.
“Glass Onion is an even bigger, flashier, funnier, twistier, clever-er riff on the whole lot that labored properly the primary time,” reads our evaluate, which provides that it’s “nearly inconceivable to look at with out feeling as for those who’re being handled to one thing particular.”
As for Amongst Us, 2022 was a busy 12 months – except for that includes in Glass Onion, the multiplayer sport additionally took half in crossovers for House Warlord Organ Buying and selling Simulator and Fortnite.
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