Josh O’Connor Stars in Wake Up Dead Man Alongside Glenn Close and Daniel Craig

On the surface, Benoit Blanc, the besuited detective played by Daniel Craig, is the main character of Rian Johnson’s whodunitfranchise. However, as both 2019’s Knives Outand 2022’s Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery have illustrated, “There’s always a[nother] protagonist who has some real stakes and skin in the game,” says the Academy Award–nominated writer-director. In Johnson’s latest installment, Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery, that person is Father Jud Duplenticy, played by Josh O’Connor.

Jud is a boxer turned priest who found his spiritual calling after he killed someone in the ring when he was a teenager. Self-described as “young, dumb, and full of Christ,…