***Warning: This article contains spoilers for Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery***
Janelle Monae received the award for best supporting actress from Daniel Craig at the National Board of Review Awards Gala.
The 54-year-old former James Bond actor was in New York City on Sunday night to honour his Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery co-star, and he claimed she ‘lifted [him] up’ every day they were on production together.
‘When Janelle floats, when she glides into a room, the chemicals in the air change. When I had the privilege of working with her, every day she lifted me up,’ he said.
Janelle, 37, was presenting the award for her portrayal as Andi Brand in Glass Onion, and she joked about the event organisers securing the 007 star for the ceremony.
She quipped: ‘Are you kidding me? You guys got f***ing James Bond?’
Janelle Monae received the award for best supporting actress from Daniel Craig at the National Board of Review Awards Gala.
The 54-year-old former James Bond actor was in New York City on Sunday night to honour his Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery co-star, and he claimed she ‘lifted [him] up’ every day they were on production together.
The chemicals in the air alter when Janelle floats or glides into a room. ‘Every day she lifted me up while I had the opportunity of working with her,’ he said.
Janelle, 37, was presenting the award for her portrayal as Andi Brand in Glass Onion, and she joked about the event organisers securing the 007 star for the ceremony.
‘Are you kidding me?’ she joked. ‘Do you have a f***ing James Bond?’
Janelle recently confessed that she wants to borrow some of Craig’s costumes for his second appearance as investigator Benoit Blanc.

‘On a personal level, I actually loved all of Blanc’s outfits. I was like, “Okay Jenny, shrink these just a little bit for me, please please please”. I actually kept thinking that,’ she told Buzzfeed.
‘Big shout out to Jenny Eagan, our costume designer. She has such a great, intuitive eye and she’s a great listener too. I think I had one call with her, and then when I showed up to the first fitting, I was just blown away by all of the options.’
Meanwhile, director Rian Johnson has stated that he was dragged kicking and screaming to the film’s huge revelation involving Janelle’s character – this is your final warning, turn away if you haven’t watched the film yet.
There is a mid-movie twist in Netflix’s new Blanc adventure featuring Janelle’s character Andi, who has actually been murdered, with Monae playing her identical twin sister Helen pretending as her sibling to discover her perpetrator.
Speaking to The Wrap, Rian said: ‘I guess the primary thing was, it can’t just be seeing it from a different angle. It has to be enough of a basic perspective shift that there’s a new tension that’s introduced in the repeat of all the different scenes.
‘This is what led to the idea of twins. By the process, I was dragged kicking and screaming to identical twins. I didn’t want to do it, it seemed like a horrible trope.’