- There's a lot of humor in this, but then it's like scary.
It feels Joker-ish in a sense.
- Coming in real hot.
- I was thinking about all these fun characters
but you don't know they could kill you right now.
Hi, I'm Edward Norton.
- And I'm Janelle Monae.
- And we're going to take you through a scene in
Glass Onion shot by shot.
- I think that belonged to Liberace.
- Janelle's character definitely reaches a breaking point.
- Yeah, I am fed up.
I am completely fearless.
I don't care.
- Nothing left to lose.
- I have nothing to lose.
- Nothing to lose.
Yeah, it's an emotional breaking point
she manifests as a physical breaking point.
- And it feels so damn good.
It's so cathartic, too.
It's exactly how I'm feeling inside.
- Hell yeah.
- She does it once.
The hovering question is how far is she going to
actually go with this?
- It was one of the most fun performances
for me because I got an opportunity to really
be the most crazy I've ever been on the scene.
Like, I'm breaking millions and millions of dollars worth
of things and I just don't have anything to lose.
It's like seeing somebody at their most fearless time.
- There's a little bit of a game of chicken in it, too.
It's a little bit like, how far is she gonna go?
And he has, he has to keep pretending
that it doesn't bother him
- Right? He's like, yeah, okay, that cost a million dollars.
I can buy another one.
Who cares?
And it's actually funny as well.
There's a lot of humor in this, but then it's like scary.
- It feels Joker-ish in a sense.
And I was thinking about like Joker
and I was thinking about all these fun characters
but you don't know, they could kill you right now.
- A funny thing happens when you have to do something
like this 'cause it gets set up, you know, it's fake glass.
But at the same time it's all been meticulously set
up by a crew.
A lot of work has gone into the making
of these glass sculptures.
In the back of your mind,
you know that it's a lot to reset it all.
They only have a couple
of them, and this tension builds in you.
- Yeah.
- That you don't want to get it wrong, right?
- Yeah. Yeah. Because we're gonna have to start
everything over. - And you had to be feeling that.
You didn't get to practice it.
- No.
- You know what I mean?
There's no way to practice it.
So it's like there's a certain tension when you have to
do something like this and you know you're not
gonna get a lot of swings at it, you know?
- Yeah. I had to, in my mind
know the arc of when I was gonna really, you know
ramp it up because you didn't get an opportunity.
So every frame I had to think
about like the build of it all.
I didn't want to do the same facial expressions or if,
if I'm gonna throw it down, make sure that it breaks
making sure that we just get it right in those two takes.
I only had two takes to do this scene.
- You can see the nature of this scene.
- The cleanup.
- The cleanup alone.
- It took a lot to clean up.
Once we broke everything, crew
incredible crew had to come in
and literally sweep up the entire place.
So we as like actors, we were just like, okay
let's get this shit right.
- Yeah.
- The first time so that we don't have to wait, you know
40 minutes or however long it takes for them to clean
up and you know, just be respectful of people's time.
- Hell yeah.
- I think also looking
at everyone's faces from Kathryn to Kate to, you know
everybody getting so inspired by what I was doing.
It was also a moment there where I wanted to be like,
"Shut up." Like, cuz all of those people are not good people
to me in the film, right?
But they're, they're egging me
on and then they join in with me.
And so there was just this moment
of I wanted to address them, but I was like, you know what
let me keep with the plan.
So I thought that was a really interesting turning point
for how the relationship with me and them even shifted.
- We're not..
- Oh my God. Whoa.
- Hey, we hope you enjoyed the scene, shot by shot.
Please watch Glass Onion on Netflix.