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    Janelle Monáe explains how ‘Glass Onion’ created twists hiding ‘in plain sight’

    by Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times Dec 30, 2022 6 minutes
    Janelle Monáe in“ Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery.”.

    It’s right there in the title, then explicitly stated during the movie: “Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery” is a movie with layers. Layers that somehow manage to reveal and conceal in equal measure, as writer-director Rian Johnson and his cast unveil surprise after surprise.

    In the film, tech billionaire Miles Bron (Edward Norton) invites a group of old friends to his private Greek island for a weekend-long murder mystery party at which he will be the victim and they will solve his (pretend) death. Among his guests — played by Kate Hudson, Kathryn Hahn, Dave Bautista, Leslie Odom Jr., Jessica Henwick and Madelyn Cline — are unexpected faces. One is world-renowned detective Benoit Blanc (Daniel Craig, reprising his role from “Knives Out”); the other is Andi Brand (Janelle Monáe), a former partner who recently lost a contentious lawsuit against Bron.

    One of the most inventive and playful aspects of the film is the way in which “Glass Onion” reveals itself to be much more than a

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