Warning: Spoiler below if you haven’t seen “Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery.”
Edward Norton shocked Rian Johnson by dressing like Tom Cruise from “Magnolia” for one scene.
“I started cracking up. But then I thought, ‘Is this too much?'” Johnson told Insider.
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You aren’t seeing things, Edward Norton really dressed like Tom Cruise from “Magnolia” in his new movie “Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery.”
And director Rian Johnson had no idea the actor was going to do it.
Norton’s hat tip to Cruise’s macho motivational speaker Frank T.J. Mackey in the 1999 Paul Thomas Anderson movie occurs in the middle of the new Benoit Blanc whodunit.
During a flashback scene in which Norton’s character Miles Bron is first introduced to best friends played by Janelle Monáe, Kate Hudson, Leslie Odom Jr., Kathryn Hahn, and Dave Bautista, Bron shows up at the Glass Onion bar wearing long hair, a black leather vest over a velvet shirt with the top buttons undone.
This is the exact look Cruise wore to play the Mackey character in “Magnolia.”
Tom Cruise in “Magnolia.” New Line Cinema
“He and Jenny Eagan, our costume designer, came up with the look and I had no idea,” Johnson told Insider. “I started cracking up. But then I thought, ‘Is this too much?’ I also thought, ‘What is Paul going to think of this?’ Hopefully he takes it in the right spirit.”
The wardrobe choice was in no way a knock on Anderson or his movie, but a subtle indication that Norton’s Bron character lacks any original ideas. Even when it comes down to the clothes he wears, he can’t help but steal someone’s look.
Norton’s choice was just one example of how Johnson and the cast had fun on the set of “Glass Onion.”
Shot in Greece as the COVID-19 Delta variant spread wild around the world, Johnson’s longtime producer Ram Bergman recalled another way they all had a good time without the fear of contracting the virus.
“Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery.” Netflix
“Rian basically every weekend did a murder-mystery night,” Bergman told Insider. “We would rent out a bar and then they can have fun together.”
But all that fun on set can come with a price. Bergman jokingly pointed out the wasted cost for on-set trailers for the stars that were never used in both “Knives Out” and “Glass Onion.”
“Every star had to have their own trailer and I thought the actors were never going to go to their trailers, I guaranteed it, they’ll want to hang with each other and that’s what happened on both movies,” he said. “I lost millions of dollars for all the trailers because they never went in them, but it starts from the top with Rian, everyone gets along so well.”
“Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery” is currently available on Netflix.
Why Edward Norton Dressed As Tom Cruise From ‘Magnolia’
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