***Warning: This article contains spoilers for Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery***
paid a wonderful tribute to Janelle Monae as he presented her with the supporting actress prize at the National Board of Review Awards Gala.
The 54-year-old former actor was on honour his Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery co-star at the ceremony in New York City on Sunday night, and he admitted she ‘lifted [him] up’ every day they were on set together.
‘When Janelle floats, when she glides into a room, the chemicals in the air change. When I had the privilege of working with her, every day she lifted me up,’ he said.
Janelle, 37, was accepting the prize for her Glass Onion performance as Andi Brand, and she joked about the event organisers landing the 007 star for the ceremony.
She quipped: ‘Are you kidding me? You guys got f***ing James Bond?’
Janelle recently admitted she wanted to take home some of Craig’s costumes for his second turn as investigator Benoit Blanc.
‘On a personal level, I actually loved all of Blanc’s outfits. I was like, “Okay Jenny, shrink these just a little bit for me, please please please”. I actually kept thinking that,’ she told.
‘Big shout out to Jenny Eagan, our costume designer. She has such a great, intuitive eye and she’s a great listener too. I think I had one call with her, and then when I showed up to the first fitting, I was just blown away by all of the options.’
Meanwhile, director Rian Johnson has revealed he had to be ‘dragged kicking and screaming’ to the movies big twist involved Janelle’s character – this is your last warning, look away if you’ve not seen the movie yet.
In Netflix’s new Blanc adventure, there is a mid-movie reveal involving Janelle’s character Andi, who has actually been murdered with Monae playing her identical twin sister Helen posing as her sibling to find her killer.
Speaking to , Rian said: ‘I guess the primary thing was, it can’t just be seeing it from a different angle. It has to be enough of a basic perspective shift that there’s a new tension that’s introduced in the repeat of all the different scenes.
‘This is what led to the idea of twins. By the process, I was dragged kicking and screaming to identical twins. I didn’t want to do it, it seemed like a horrible trope.’
