Madelyn Cline shares a candid behind-the-scenes look at life on the set of Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery.
Working alongside the exceptional ensemble cast of Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery, relative newcomer Madelyn Cline (Outer Banks) had a very natural reaction: “In walked Edward Norton and Daniel Craig, and I just absolutely Error 404-malfunctioned. My brain had left the chat — to say it was intimidating would be the understatement of the year. I had to give myself a pep talk in the mirror every day.” For the second installment of this fan-favorite mystery, writer-director Rian Johnson assembled a fresh roster of dazzling talent — along with Craig and Norton, the cast includes Janelle Monáe, Kathryn Hahn, Leslie Odom Jr., Jessica Henwick, Cline, Kate Hudson, and Dave Bautista — to tell an edge-of-your-seat whodunit set in Greece. Cline plays Whiskey — the ambitious head-turning girlfriend to Bautista’s eccentric Duke — whose streaming mascara and shrill screams act as a barometer for the mystery’s unraveling.
Madelyn Cline admires her running mascara and sacrificed hair extension
Kathryn Hahn takes a load off between takes
Cline’s stick-figure drawing of the Glass Onion cast
Hahn and Cline embrace while cutting a rug
The shadowy figures of Cline and a castmate
Cline sipping wine with Rian Johnson after wrapping for the day, dance moves on the verge of eruption
The magnetic actor made the most of that intimidation, channeling her fish-out-of-water feeling into her character, and taking every opportunity to learn from the superb performers and director: “I felt like I was in a masterclass,” says Cline. “The way that [Johnson] was able to move and be so specific and present with us was just such a gift.” It turned out that the cast’s offscreen antics weren’t too far off from their characters’: “We would have dinners, and every single time we would play Mafia, which is a murder mystery game. We would go to the local vintage store and get costumes so we would actually play these characters, and it would turn into a dance party.”
