Rian Johnson On Angela Lansbury's Glass Onion Cameo: "She Couldn't Have Been Lovelier"

Angela Lansbury "couldn’t have been lovelier and more generous" when filming a cameo for Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery, according to director Rian Johnson. 

The late actress — who died in October 2022 aged 96 — made her final film appearance in the Netflix movie and Johnson was thrilled she agreed to take part.

He told the New York Times: "She couldn’t have been lovelier and more generous."

Lansbury's cameo shows her playing the computer game Among Us with Daniel Craig's detective Benoit Blanc, but Johnson shared that Murder, She Wrote star was "not a gamer".

He added: "And so she was very patient in letting me describe the rules of Among Us, up to a point. At which point she just said, ‘You know what? Just tell me what the lines are. I’ll trust you."

Johnson also managed to get musical maestro Stephen Sondheim a cameo in Glass Onion, before his death in November 2021 aged 91. In fact, if it weren't for the West Side Story songsmith, Johnson wouldn't have gotten Lansbury involved.

Explaining about working with Sondheim, he added: "I mentioned to him that we were trying to get Angela Lansbury. And he said, ‘Oh, Angie — I’m friends with her. Tell her I’m doing it. She’ll do it.’"

The Brick filmmaker admitted that he was star-struck by both legends. 

He said: "I allowed myself to have that little awkward moment of saying to them what I’m sure every person who meets them says. But still, it felt really nice to tell them that I wouldn’t be here doing this if it weren’t for them.

"It’s sad, because as a fan, I wish they were still around and making stuff. I hope they would have enjoyed the little scene and gotten a laugh out of it."

Russian Doll's Natasha Lyonne, who also cameoed alongside Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, added: "It goes without saying that they were giant losses of two incredible lives well lived. I guess we’ll only know if I make it to 90, if I was actually worthy of being up there with them."

Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery is now on Netflix. — BANG SHOWBIZ

Photos: TPG News/Click Photos