Daniel Craig: 'Knives Out' Aims To Be One Of Those 'Grand Pieces Of Entertainment'
As a kid, Craig remembers Agatha Christie "event movies" such as Murder on the Orient Express and Death on the Nile. He says his new whodunit, Knives Out, strives for a similar effect.
Knives Out is a human jigsaw puzzle of a whodunit: a dead, rich novelist on a divan upstairs; scheming, back-stabbing family members downstairs quarreling over the spoils; an appealing family attendant; and a famously astute detective in the drawing room, armed only with his wits — and, in this case, a slow Southern drawl.
Daniel Craig, who plays detective Benoit"I may not have done that, but I went for it," Craig says. "He wanted something that placed him, that separated him from the rest of the characters — kind of maybe leaves him open for ridicule."
