Why Josh O'Connor Was 'Dreading' His First Scene with Josh Brolin in 'Knives Out'

Why Josh O'Connor was 'dreading' his first scene with Josh Brolin in 'Knives Out'

"It's a brilliant scene," O'Connor tells EW. "But if you'd seen the earlier coverage, you wouldn't be saying it was amazing."John Wilson/Netflix Josh O'Connor and Josh Brolin in 'Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery'Even Emmy-winning actors get nervous sometimes.Josh O'Connor stars alongside a roster of acting legends in the new Knives Out whodunnit, including Daniel Craig, Josh Brolin, Glenn Close, Kerry Washington, Jeremy Renner, Mila Kunis,…

Josh O'Connor Steals the Spotlight in 'Wake Up Dead Man'

Though we don’t get one every year, people seem to look forward to every installment of Rian Johnson’s Knives Out series, which kicked off in 2019. That first movie introduced the world to Daniel Craig’s Benoit Blanc, a detective whose manners and Louisiana accent are as smooth as churned butter; in that picture, his job was to solve the mystery of a best-selling crime novelist’s sudden death. Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery, released by Netfl…

Knives Out’ Takes on a Locked Room Mystery in ‘Wake Up Dead Man’

Father Judd (Josh O'Connor) is a good man. After a minor slip-up, he is assigned to be the second-in-command of a shrinking parish headed by Monsignor Wicks (Josh Brolin), a firebrand of the pulpit who spews hate and division to... Read more...

'Wake Up Dead Man' Defines Justice Differently

There are only so many ways to surprise in the construction of a murder mystery, which is why the set-up of Wake Up Dead Man is understood from the start and goes so far as to cite its sources: Here is a locked-room murder, a la John Dickson Carr's The Hollow Man, and, as we all know, there are only four ways to commit a theoretically possible locked-room murder. If you don't know, the movie will teach it to you. By nature of the genre, the endi…

Josh O’Connor as a Beatific Priest Steals the Spotlight in Wa

Though we don’t get one every year, people seem to look forward to every installment of Rian Johnson’s Knives Out series, which kicked off in 2019. That first movie introduced the world to Daniel Craig’s Benoit Blanc, a detective whose manners and Louisiana accent are as smooth as churned butter; in that picture, his job was to solve the mystery of a best-selling crime novelist’s sudden death. Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery, released by Netfl…