‘It’s normal’: Daniel Craig says gay relationship in Knives Out ‘reflects my life’

Daniel Craig says his character’s gay relationship in Glass Onion “reflects my life”.

The actor reprises his role as Benoit Blanc in the Knives Out sequel, which was released in cinemas in November and will arrive on Netflix later this month.

Blanc’s sexuality was the point of much speculation given that the film features a particular scene that suggests Blanc is living with a man. Director Rian Johnson has since confirmed the character is queer.

Speaking about the revelation of his character’s sexuality in a new interview with The Times, Craig said that when making films, “you are supposed to reflect life. And that [gay] relationship reflects my life”.

Craig, 54, added: “It’s normal. But we don’t want to make a song and dance out of it. It just feels right.”

Johnson said: “It just made sense to Daniel and me [for Blanc to be queer]. We didn’t want to be coy or cute about it. We just wanted it to be a fact of the character.”

The James Bond star has previously said he does not want viewers to become “politically hung up” on Blanc’s sexuality.

Last year, the actor spoke about his own sexuality during an appearance on restaurateur Bruce Bozzi’s Lunch with Bruce podcast.

In it, Craig addressed reports that he and Bozzi had been seen kissing at a gay bar called Rooserfish in Venice Beach, California in 2010.

“For me, it was one of those situations and, and, and the irony is, you know, we kind of got caught, I suppose, which was kind of weird cause we were doing nothing f***ing wrong,” Craig said to Bozzi.

He continued: “What happened is we were having a nice night and I kind of was talking to you about my life when my life was changing and we got drunk and I was like, ‘Oh, let’s just go to a bar, come on, let’s f***ing go out.’ And I just was like, I don’t give a f*** and we’re in Venice [California].”

Craig went on to say that he has been going to gay bars “for as long as I can remember”.

“One of the reasons, because I don’t get into fights in gay bars that often… because the aggressive d** swinging in hetero bars, I just got very sick of [it].”

He said that the gay bars were a safe place to be and that “you didn’t really have to sort of state your sexuality”.

“And I could meet girls there,” he added. “Because there are a lot of girls there for exactly the same reason I was there. It was kind of an ulterior motive.”

Glass Onion features an ensemble cast that includes Edward Norton, Janelle Monáe, Dave Bautista, Kathryn Hahn, Leslie Odom Jr, Jessica Henwick and Kate Hudson.

The film sees Blanc travel to Greece after being invited to a murder mystery party hosted by a controversial tech billionaire.

It will be released on Netflix on 23 December.