{"id":1698055,"date":"2022-10-17T10:32:47","date_gmt":"2022-10-17T14:32:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1698055"},"modified":"2022-10-17T10:37:25","modified_gmt":"2022-10-17T14:37:25","slug":"knives-out-director-says-daniel-craigs-character-is-obviously-queer-in-new-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/knives-out-director-says-daniel-craigs-character-is-obviously-queer-in-new-film\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Knives Out\u2019 Director Says Daniel Craig\u2019s Character Is \u2018Obviously\u2019 Queer In New Film"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fknives-out-director-says-daniel-craigs-character-is-obviously-queer-in-new-film%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1698055&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/daniel-craig\">Daniel Craig<\/a>\u2019s character in the upcoming <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/watch\/movies\">film<\/a> \u201cGlass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery\u201d is meant to be queer, the director confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>Rian Johnson made the clarification during a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/entertainment\">press conference<\/a> at the London Film Festival, as Entertainment Weekly <a href=\"https:\/\/ew.com\/movies\/knives-out-sequel-glass-onion-daniel-craig-benoit-blanc-gay-queer\/\">reported<\/a>. Craig plays Detective Benoit Blanc in the movie, and fans had already assumed he was part of the LGBTQ community based on clues from the previous installment of the franchise.<\/p>\n<p>When Johnson was asked if a scene that seemed to depict Blanc with a male live-in lover indicated the character is \u201cqueer,\u201d the director clarified, \u201cYes, he obviously is.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Before, Blanc\u2019s sexuality was a bit more vague, though he was described as a mix of Truman Capote and Foghorn Leghorn, who the publication describes as two \u201cgay icons.\u201d This led most movie fans to assume the character was gay as well.<\/p>\n[embedded content]\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s nobody in the world I can imagine in bringing me more joy for Benoit Blanc to be with,\u201d Johnson said of Blanc\u2019s male lover debuting in the new \u201cKnives Out\u201d installment.<\/p>\n<p>Craig is also on board for it. He said, \u201cNo spoilers [but] who wouldn\u2019t want to live with that person?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The original \u201cKnives Out\u201d film was a critically acclaimed success that debuted in 2019. Johnson had conceived the project sooner but waited to make it due to his commitment to \u201cStar Wars: The Last Jedi.\u201d It grossed more than $300 million and earned three Golden Globe nominations that year. The Netflix description for the movie describes the plot as, \u201cA detective unravels the tangled web of secrets and lies surrounding the death of a successful crime novelist and his unsettling, eccentric family.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Netflix paid $469 million for the rights to two sequels written and directed by Johnson in March 2021. The \u201cGlass Onion\u201d cast includes Craig plus other stars, including Kathryn Hahn, Dave Bautista, Leslie Odom Jr, and Janelle Mon\u00e1e. The movie trailer shows the new storyline involving Blanc taking a trip to Greece to solve his latest case with a slew of eccentric new characters.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Hahn said filming during the pandemic made the co-stars especially close. \u201cIt did feel like we were this traveling circus together which added, I think, to the texture of the movie,\u201d she said during the press conference, per <a href=\"https:\/\/www.insider.com\/knives-out-rian-johnson-benoit-blanc-is-queer-glass-onion-2022-10\">Insider<\/a>. \u201cThat kind of closeness that we were able to create under those circumstances really added [to the movie].\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGlass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery\u201d premieres in theaters on November 23 and will become available on Netflix on December 23.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daniel Craig\u2019s character in the upcoming film \u201cGlass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery\u201d is meant to be queer, the director confirmed. Rian Johnson made the clarification during a press conference at the London Film Festival, as Entertainment Weekly reported. Craig plays Detective Benoit Blanc in the movie, and fans had already assumed he was part &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1890378,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"\u2018Knives Out\u2019 Director Says Daniel Craig\u2019s Character Is \u2018Obviously\u2019 Queer In New Film","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1698055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"\u2018Knives Out\u2019 Director Says Daniel Craig\u2019s Character Is \u2018Obviously\u2019 Queer In New Film","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1698055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1698055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1698055\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1890378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1698055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1698055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1698055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}