Angela Lansbury’s final film appearance will be alongside her famous gay best friend
Murder She Wrote star, alongside her dear friend: the late, legendary composer Stephen Sondheim.Related: Let’s not forget what Angela Lansbury did during the worst years of the AIDS epidemicLansbury and Sondheim filmed a brief appearance for the Knives Out sequel, due to hit a limited number of theaters on November 23.
After a short theatrical run, Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery will then be streaming on Netflix over Thanksgiving weekend.Like its predecessor, the movie will star Daniel Craig as Detective Benoit Blanc.Playbill says Lansbury and Sondheim’s scene was shot in late summer 2021.
People says it’s a brief appearance by the duo in a Zoom call with Craig’s character.Lansbury and Sondheim, who passed away last November at the age of 91, collaborated several times in life.
Lansbury famously originated the role of Mrs. Lovett in the Broadway production of Sweeney Todd (for which she nabbed a Tony Award).On Saturday night, Broadway theaters dimmed their lights for one minute in the actress’ memory.Related: Stephen Sondheim made a place for usThe Knives Out sequel co-stars Edward Norton, Janelle Monáe, Kathryn Hahn, Kate Hudson, and Dave Bautista, among others.The first movie, a modern homage to the Agatha Christie-style whodunnits of old, was one of the biggest box office hits of 2019.
