It’s the morning after the European premiere of Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery at the London Film Festival, where it played as the closing night gala. Total Film was also in attendance, in what’s probably the first time we’ve ever been part of the same cinema audience as Edgar Wright and Grace Jones.
If anyone’s feeling worse for wear, it’s not showing. “I was a little bit sore, but not as sore as some other people,” grins Daniel Craig, looking predictably sharp in a dark blue knitted jacket. “It was amazing,” he says of the previous evening’s revelries. “They don’t come around very often. But it was proper. It was the London Film Festival. It all came together. It was great.”
The film’s writer/director Rian Johnson (Brick, Looper, Star Wars: The Last Jedi) is also in typically unflappable form. The film’s rapturous reception at the previous month’s Toronto International Film festival “takes the edge off it a little bit” of the experience of watching the film in a packed house, with the extended ensemble, celebrity guests and the occasional film journalist in attendance. “But there’s still always nervous energy to it.”
“It was a good party,” adds Edward Norton. “But we had to be up, so we can talk to you,” interjects Janelle Monáe. “We didn’t get into too much trouble.”
“I’m still trying to understand why press tours choose the one day to start early as the day after the premiere,” ponders Kate Hudson.
“It does feel like an inside joke,” retorts Kathryn Hahn.
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