Exclusive: Leslie Odom Jr. Talks his New Movie, Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery

Leslie Odom Jr. sat down and chatted his brand new movie. Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery. A sequel to the hit 2019 movie, Knives Out, Odom Jr. talked the movie’s ensemble, his love of murder mysteries, an so much more. Check out what he had to say below.

On joining a great ensemble cast: “I’ve had a couple opportunities to be a part of great ensembles with Hamilton and One Night in Miami. And this is one of the best, you know. But it’s really an impossible thing I think to achieve without the leadership. It happens from the top down. You really can’t lead from the rear or from the bottom of the call sheet, as it were, or the middle of the call sheet. It’s really Rian [Johnson] and Daniel [Craig] and Ram [Bergman] making it feel that creative and that permissive and that fun.”

On whom he considered the greatest disrupter onset: “It’s probably a toss-up between Janelle [Monáe] and Kathryn [Hahn], for me. Right? I mean, super disruptive.”

On his love of murder mysteries: “When I grew up, it was a weekly thing. It was Murder, She Wrote and Perry Mason, and my parents were still watching Columbo and Baretta, you know what I mean? So, I have sort of have warm and fuzzy memories around a weekly murder and a person that you have a real affection for getting to the bottom of it.”

Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery premieres on Netflix tomorrow, December 23.

*This interview has been edited for length and clarity

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