To celebrate the release of Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery Daniel Craig and Rian Johnson visit WIRED to answer the most Googled questions about the Knives Out films.WAKE UP DEAD MAN: A KNIVES OUT MYSTERY Is Available to Stream On Netflix December 12, 2025. https://www.netflix.com/title/81458424
00:06Hello, I'm Daniel Craig and I'm Ryan Johnson and we're here to answer the most googled questions about Knives Out
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00:23Okay, do it. Okay. Yeah, what state is Benoit Blanc from? That's a good question
00:31We know we just don't want to say is the mystique of the character
00:38You know the thing about the one look he's traveled a great deal
00:41He has even he doesn't at this point who's to tell what is Marta's reaction to lying?
00:48Projectile vomit. She has a regurgatory
00:52Regurgatory reaction. Oh
00:56What is the title of Harlan's final book? Oh
00:59Boy Wow. Wow. Hold on. Let me google this real quick. Yeah
01:04I don't know
01:06That's a good question. That's got a very good question. You've certainly got me
01:10You've stumped me. I don't know. I should just make something up. I should write. Yes. Blood like wine
01:16Final book. Yeah, it's very tragic. Where does wake up dead man take place takes place in the town in the fictional town of
01:24Chimney Rock in upstate New York, New York
01:28Who solves the fake murder game instantly? Fake murder game. Yeah. Oh, you mean as an art thing?
01:33Yeah, yeah, I mean, I'll give you a hint you play him really did I hear
01:38Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I see you mean
01:47Who designed the dong sound in glass onion well by that I think probably it was designed by our sound designer
01:54But I think we who who performed it do you remember you know this? No. Oh, but that wasn't it supposed didn't he say that that's who had done it
02:03Yeah, you know, he said it was a philip glass. Oh philip glass. Yeah, that's yes
02:06But this is actually a little Easter egg here. My buddy Joseph Gordon-Levitt
02:11Oh
02:13That's right
02:18Oh, what is Blanc doing when he receives his invitation box? He's having a bath having a bath as one as one does
02:25What does the glass onion title reference? It's a Beatles song. It's a Beatles song. It's a Beatles song, but it is also
02:32Yeah, I mean it's what's the word allegorific. Yeah, it's it's allegor. It's metaphoric horrific metaphorical metaphorical metaphorical allegorical
02:42What musical instrument does Benoit Blanc play? I think he plays the ukulele doesn't he plays the ukulele and maybe a bit of the harmonica
02:49A little harmonica. Yeah, yeah
02:52Down the road. We'll have that in a movie. What song plays over the ending montage as the mansion burns
03:01Mona Lisa
03:03And now why it has to clear that song
03:05Uh-huh. What phrase does Blanc say about gravity's rainbow? No one's read it
03:12Yeah
03:14What does miles say is powering his mansions lights that would be?
03:25The this hydrogen fuel source called clear with a K
03:32Who explains what a fugue is in glass onion? What is a fugue a fugue as as yo-yo ma?
03:38Oh, yes planes. That's right is a musical piece that I remember layers on top of itself. That's right
03:44Mary
03:45Who plays Harlan Thrombey? Well, that would be the great legendary Christopher Plummer?
03:52What does the word clear written on miles his napkin mean with a K well it refers to the hydrogen fuel source that
04:02But he's very excited about putting on his rock manned rockets
04:07Miles completely fictional character based on nobody in the real world
04:10So now what inspired knives out go over to you because you did really invent it. I mean Agatha Christie
04:16Yeah, I got the Christie and just my love of who done it's I love I love a good mystery
04:21What does Marta say before vomiting on?
04:25Ransom oh, well cool. Yeah on the phone call she says she tells everyone that Fran is
04:31Okay, and she's ready to talk. Yeah, and then from there on out. She's basically trying not a lot of vomit
04:37Yeah, until the very last minute. It's great this yeah, yeah, oh, you won't know this
04:42Where was wake up dead man shot? It was shot in London and then around London, right? Boom. That was easy
04:49What does Bernie?
04:51Accidentally confess to again, but what doesn't what doesn't
04:56Feel like she lets a lot of stuff. Yeah slip. Yeah, I think maybe what those are hers too is that she
05:02Signed off on she gleefully signed off on having a sweatshop create her because she thought a sweatshop is where the you make sweatpants
05:10Yes, so for her sweatpants company, I think that's yes, that was her accidental confession. Oh
05:16What type of mysteries does Blanc prefer well in this particular one? He likes a
05:23what's we allowed to say commonly known as a
05:27As a locked-door mystery and possibly an impossible crime. Yeah, so I'd say impossible mysteries
05:32I think it's probably possible mysteries. Yeah, like that covers it who came up with knives out idea. I did
05:42Was that the answer I did that hey, that's it. Okay. Now you own it now all the comments can come to you
05:49Motherfucker
05:51What is Blanc doing when he is first introduced in the first movie? I guess in the first movie when we first introduce him
05:59He's fucking with everybody. He is he's messing about with it. Yeah, he's questioning the suspects and and
06:05prying open their heads
06:07Manipulating them. Yeah as he does
06:09Okay
06:11Who is the priest and wake up dead man? Well, there were Josh O'Connor Josh O'Connor is one of the priests because we have a we have a
06:20couple of priests we have a murder of priests Josh O'Connor of Josh Brolin, you know, and Jeffrey and Jeffrey writes also a priest
06:27How does Bertie J open her invitation box? Bertie just kind of follows
06:34Instructions from everybody else everybody else. Yeah. Yeah
06:36Yeah, it's like it's like Kate you says about Bertie. She understands every third word
06:44What famous painting is in miles mansion there's a bunch of them
06:48I mean, I guess the main one miles is mansion miles is mansion miles is man. I literally was going which one's miles
06:58That sounds like a part you remember making that movie. I promise you it sounds like a prog rock
07:03Yeah, yeah, there were all good reconstructions
07:07I mean, there's a Hockney there's a bed a bed them in the Mona Lisa is the big one
07:10That's probably what they're doing whether what they're going for. I'm guessing what metaphor does Blanc use to describe solving mystery
07:17What metaphor doesn't he use?
07:19Thank you
07:21Every metaphor I throw eight metaphors a movie at you. What does the napkin reveal the napkin reveals that Andy who is
07:29Janelle Monae's character had the original idea for the company that miles stole
07:37That's the big reveal. So now I've spoiled glass onion. What's birdie birdie's assistant's name?
07:45It will come back to you
07:49Yeah, it's peg played by
07:52Jessica. Yeah, I think we did great. Yeah, I got no notes for us
07:58Yeah, I feel like just I don't I don't think we could have done it any better
08:02I don't think we could but I may mean that we couldn't have done it any better
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