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  • My name is Rian Johnson, and I wrote and directed

  • 'Knives Out.'

  • So this is a scene about 45 minutes into the movie,

  • where we first get to meet Chris Evans' character, Hugh

  • Ransom Drysdale.

  • He goes by Ransom.

  • And there's Chris Evans, a rare moment of dogs

  • not liking Chris Evans.

  • You can't really tell here, but this

  • is a real mansion in the middle of Massachusetts

  • that we shot in.

  • It was a gorgeous murder mystery mansion

  • that we just found and we shot inside and outside of it.

  • This is LaKeith Stanfield and Noah Segan as the two

  • local cops right here.

  • "Excuse me.

  • Sir, we're officers of the law."

  • And here comes Daniel Craig as the eccentric detective,

  • Benoit Blanc, and Ana de Armas as Marta.

  • "So what's this arrangement?"

  • "Mr. Drysdale."

  • "CSI KFC?"

  • I'm very proud right here of the staging of this,

  • trying to stage everybody so the dialogue scenes worked.

  • Like with this, we come in and first

  • meet the family in this room doing this wide panning

  • over shot to establish the geography of it.

  • In the close up of Chris, you see Daniel coming back there.

  • We get Toni's entrance.

  • "Hey.

  • Hey."

  • And this is Frank Oz.

  • Frank Oz, who did a little cameo for us.

  • I'll try and go through and introduce

  • the cast a little bit.

  • You saw Toni Collette there, who plays a lifestyle guru.

  • This is Michael Shannon, who plays Walt, the youngest

  • brother.

  • Jamie Lee Curtis, who plays Linda, the eldest sister.

  • And Don Johnson will be seen here

  • in a moment, who plays her husband.

  • There's Don right there.

  • Look at all the great sweaters.

  • And then hanging in the background,

  • that's Katherine Langford and that's Riki Lindhome.

  • "Jacob was in that bathroom the night of the party."

  • And that's Jaeden Martell, who plays the younger son.

  • So an example of that three-shot right there,

  • like this shot right here, figuring out

  • how to just get everybody comfortably in frame it

  • in a way that feels natural.

  • This scene was one of the most fun scenes in the whole movie

  • to shoot, just because all of these actors

  • were together in this room.

  • We had a couple big scenes like this,

  • where all of these amazing actors were together,

  • and they all got to play off of each other.

  • "You want to go?"

  • "You bet, Skippy, let's go."

  • So, yeah, everyone kind of goes at each other here.

  • I love this ridiculous little slap fight between the two

  • of them.

  • I mean, it's kind of silly.

  • But that's kind of the tone of the movie.

  • It's a murder mystery, but it kind of, you can tell,

  • has like a sense of humor to it.

  • [INTERPOSING VOICES]

  • "We got to do this more often."

My name is Rian Johnson, and I wrote and directed

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