Remember in Rian Johnson’s Knives Out sequel, Glass Onion, when Natasha Lyonne, Stephen Sondheim, Angela Lansbury, and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar video chatted with Daniel Craig’s character Benoit Blanc while he played Among Us in the bathtub? It turns out there’s more to Lyonne’s delightful cameo than meets the eye.
When chatting with Johnson about Poker Face, his new mystery-of-the-week “howcatchem” series starring Lyonne as unlikely detective Charlie Cale, Decider asked if her Glass Onion cameo meant we’d never get to see a Charlie Cale/Benoit Blanc crossover. According to Johnson, we did get to see one Well…sort of.
“Here’s an interesting thing,” Johnson told Decider over Zoom. “So if you look at [Lyonne’s] cameo on Glass Onion she’s in the Charlie Cale makeup and look in her trailer in between setups on Poker Face. So it’s Natasha, [and] in the world of Glass Onion, Poker Face is a show that his friend Natasha is shooting.”
Johnson has mastered the art of pulling back onion layers and finding more holes in donuts, so of course he thought ahead and established a connection between the two projects before filming. However, you might be asking yourself, “If Glass Onion and Poker Face exist in the same universe, how do we explain the shared Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Noah Segan cameos?” Simple. We don’t. We just accept and enjoy them, as Johnson intended.
For those who have yet to see the Netflix film and the Peacock series, Gordon-Levitt and Segan — who also had cameos in Knives Out and several of Johnson’s other projects — both have Glass Onion and Poker Face cameos. In Glass Onion, Segan plays a rando stoner named Derol, and in Poker Face, he plays an officer at the County Sheriff’s department. Meanwhile, Gordon-Levitt simply voices Glass Onion’s iconic “DONG,” but snagged himself a starring role in Episode 9 of Poker Face.
It’s a classic Columbo and Johnson move to recast these two pals in projects. (Heck, Johnson and his Poker Face showrunners even told us they would be open to casting Segan as a new character in a potential Season 2.)
We’re down for all the Segan/JGL cameos we can get. And we hope we’ll get to see more Benoit Blanc/Poker Face crossovers some day, because the idea of Blanc and Cale teaming up to crack cases is just too good not to entertain.
The first four episodes of Poker Face are now streaming on Peacock. New episodes premiere weekly on Thursdays.
