Hugh Grant confirms his character is married to Daniel Craig's Benoit Blanc in 'Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery'
- Hugh Grant confirmed he's married to Daniel Craig in "Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery."
- "It is true, I'm married to James Bond," Grant told Collider.
Hugh Grant has confirmed that his character is married to Daniel Craig in "Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery."
Grant only appears briefly in the film, which premiered on Netflix in December, answering the door at the home of Craig's lead character Benoit Blanc while he's in the bathtub.
"It is true, I'm married to James Bond," Grant told Collider when asked about his cameo in the film.
"It's the tiniest little moment," he added. "I don't really know why they wanted to do it but anyway, I thought 'Knives Out' was brilliant, and so yeah, I thought why not?"
Speaking with The Times of London prior to the release of 'Glass Onion,' writer-director Rian Johnson said that Blanc being gay "just made sense" to him and Craig.
"We didn't want to be coy or cute about it," said Johnson. "We just wanted it to be a fact of the character."
Craig said: "You are supposed to reflect life. And that [gay] relationship reflects people in my life. It's normal. But we don't make a song and dance out of it. It just feels right."
"Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery" was watched for 82.1 million hours over its first weekend on Netflix, according to NME.
Netflix paid a reported $469 million for the rights to two sequels to "Knives Out," the first of which was "Glass Onion."
The third installment in the series is already in development. Johnson told Insider that it will be set in America.
"There's a lot of tempting things of going to — Paris or the Alps — but I feel it's really important that these are American movies," he said.