Josh O'Connor felt 'punked' filming "Knives Out": 'Always seemed to be raining on me, never on Daniel Craig' Sydney BucksbaumDecember 14, 2025 at 2:00 AM 0 Netflix Josh O'Connor in 'Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery' Josh O'Connor went through hell and back to film Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery because he had faith in Rian Johnson's vision. But even the most pious, devoted cast member has to admit that he didn't enjoy being covered in mud and soaked by rain machines while filming the new whodunnit.
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Josh O'Connor in 'Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery'
Josh O'Connor went through hell and back to film Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery because he had faith in Rian Johnson's vision. But even the most pious, devoted cast member has to admit that he didn't enjoy being covered in mud and soaked by rain machines while filming the new whodunnit.
"Yeah, not the easiest," the Emmy-winning actor tells Entertainment Weekly with a laugh.
The Crown alum stars in the third Knives Out film as the young, irreverent Rev. Jud Duplenticy, a tattooed, cursing ex-boxer who found religion late in life. But his faith is shaken when an impossible death strikes his small town congregation, and all evidence points to him as the murderer.
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Josh O'Connor and Daniel Craig in 'Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery'
Thankfully, the brilliant, eccentric detective Benoit Blanc (Daniel Craig) descends on Jud's parish to solve the case, because the Kentucky-fried sleuth actually believes in Jud's innocence. But as the two join forces to investigate the murder, Jud is put through the wringer mentally, emotionally, spiritually, but most of all physically, as he literally battles the elements in the forest during a rainstorm in the pivotal third act.
"The rain machines were absolutely extraordinary," O'Connor says. "But I felt like I was being punked every day. It was like, 'And then get the rain machine in,' and I'd be like, 'I don't think it was raining in the script.' And they were like, 'No, no, Josh, it's raining.' It always seemed to be raining on me and never on Daniel Craig, which really wound me up."
The actor laughs again as he admits, "It was definitely uncomfortable, but it was a sacrifice I was willing to make to be part of the Rian Johnson world."
Mud and pouring rain aside, O'Connor loved getting to join the Knives Out universe, especially during his first two weeks of filming with Craig and Mila Kunis (who plays no-nonsense local police chief Geraldine Scott) before the rest of the star-studded cast arrived.
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"We had such a laugh," O'Connor says of their trio. "The three of us really created a bond and a chemistry, and then suddenly it was extraordinary — suddenly Glenn Close walks up, and then [Josh] Brolin arrives, and suddenly there's Kerry Washington, and it just keeps getting better and better and better."
Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery also stars Andrew Scott, Jeremy Renner, Jeffrey Wright, Thomas Haden Church, Cailee Spaeny, and more. The film is now streaming on Netflix.
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Published: December 13, 2025 at 08:36PM on Source: RED MAG
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