In an interview with Vainness Honest, Johnson revealed that he wrote “Glass Onion” as a bromide throughout COVID-19 lockdowns. He envisioned a distant, unique location in his thoughts at a time when worldwide journey was banned. The COVID information on display screen within the remaining lower of “Glass Onion” was based mostly on actual anxiousness. It additionally seemingly allowed Johnson to think about novel methods to movie, and his homicide thriller contained many notable cameos, all filmed individually, fully consistent with social distancing measures. /Movie beforehand wrote about how Angela Lansbury, Stephen Sondheim, Natasha Lyonne, and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar performed a recreation of “Amongst Us” with Benoit Blanc (Daniel Craig), the movie’s central detective. 

For Ma’s cameo, it seems he did not movie his half till many months after the actual fact. On the commentary, Johnson described it thus:

“Yo-Yo Ma. He is not right here. I am making a gift of the film magic. Months and months after we shot this scene — Jess [Henwick] was wanting off-screen there at nothing — Yo-Yo Ma got here in and sat in entrance of a inexperienced display screen and delivered his traces to a tennis ball on a C-stand, for Jess. What I am saying is he did a incredible job in a really excessive diploma of problem; simply strolling onto a blue display screen stage and delivering these traces.”  

Ma’s traces are a little bit foolish, in fact. Whereas he does establish the Bach tune in query, he additionally explains briefly what a fugue is, explaining that it’s one melody layered over itself to create a brand new aural dynamic. His clue, maybe weirdly, evokes Lionel to drag on the puzzle’s knob. The cameo is extra enjoyable than the clue.