Daniel Craig is once again solving a mystery as Benoit Blanc in Glass Onion, the sequel to Rian Johnson’s hit Knives Out. However, since his last outing it has been confirmed by Johnson that the character is gay and living with another man. While this has become a focal point for some reviews of the movie, Daniel Craig has warned people about getting “hung up” on the character’s sexuality.

Recently, there has been a lot of backlash against straight actors playing LGBTQ+ roles. For that reason, the revelation that Craig, who is married to actress Rachel Weisz, is playing a man who is queer has caused some to call out the casting on social media. Considering Craig has already successfully played the role once, there was never going to be a chance that he would be recast just because of his confirmed status, and it is something that Craig himself has addressed. In an interview with Deadline, Craig said:

“The less of a song and dance we make about that, the better, really, for me, because it just made sense. And also, as I said at the [London Film Festival], who wouldn’t want to live with the human being he happens to live with? It’s nice, it’s fun. And why shouldn’t it be? I don’t want people to get politically hung up on anything.”

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Is Daniel Craig’s Queer Character Just Another Hollywood Tick Box Exercise?

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While there is certainly no end of well-established movie characters who have been “revealed” to be representative of an LGBTQ+ groups over the last few years, as Hollywood continues to attempt to show its diversity, Glass Onion’s Benoit Blanc may not be so cynical a gesture. The character is well-written and through both Knives Out and its sequel, the character’s dress-sense, as well as the dynamics of his interaction with other characters has been enough to suggest that he was always orientated the way he has now been revealed to be.

However, his sexuality is not a central plot theme, does not encroach on the story, and even though his status is plain for most people to see in Glass Onion, it is not painfully forced or shoehorned in as a key moment in the movie. It simply is, and comes with a subtlety that’s establishes the fact and moves on. This comes back to Craig’s comments about not making a song and dance about it. There has been no mass promotion made about the character’s sexuality, and the film hasn’t changed because of it. It is just an addition to the character’s depth and fleshes him out more in the same way it would if the scene had revealed him to be married with kids.

Glass Onion certainly has more to it than just the orientation of its central character, and Craig has certainly managed to establish himself with a role that can help him get out of the shadow of his recent departure from the James Bond franchise. Glass Onion is out now in selected theaters and arrives on Netflix on December 23.