Please note that this article contains spoilers for Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery.

If there’s anyone who could make lockdown sound like a remotely fun experience, it’s definitely Kate Hudson. During 2020, the actor was not taking a daily walk during her lunch hour or enduring Friday afternoon Zoom quizzes; rather she was hanging out on the sun-soaked Greek shores with a roll call of actors that can only be described as dream dinner party guests: Daniel Craig, Janelle Monáe and Kathryn Hahn, to name but a few. There was, of course, a purpose to the star-studded merriment: the group were gathered to film Glass Onion, the highly-anticipated sequel to Rian Johnson’s 2019 whodunnit Knives Out; and according to Hudson, it really was “a blast”.

“We had so much fun together,” she says breezily when I meet her at a London hotel. “We had such a beautiful time. You know, we were in a green room, just all of us together. We weren’t even in separate trailers or anything. And playing each other music and having to share intimate things that were happening. Janelle and I would get into these long conversations about everything”. The circle of trust was obviously strong, because there are no “juicy” stories she can share. What did they talk about? “Just, you know, life, like how you do with your friends, talking about your families and relationships and all that. So we really got to really know each other’s heart. And then that lends itself to when you want to go have fun”.

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