As we enter these final weeks of the year, Wake Up Dead Man, a.k.a. the third Knives Out movie, is one of the biggest releases still left to arrive on the 2025 Netflix schedule. This Benoit Blanc mystery sees Daniel Craig’s character investigating the death of Josh Brolin’s Monsignor Jefferson Wicks, and among the people he’ll speak to is Glenn Close’s Martha Delacroix, Wick’s right-hand woman and a devout church lady. As it turns out, Close was well equipped to tackle this kind of character given her experience with a cult-like group as a child.
Ahead of Wake Up Dead Man beginning its limited theatrical run on the 2025 movies calendar, Variety spoke with the actress about her role in the lates Rian Johnson-helmed whodunit. The toxic Christian fundamentalism on display in the next Knives Out movie struck a chord with Close, because when she was seven years old, her parents joined the Moral Re-Armament, an international moral and spiritual movement started in 1938 by Frank Buchman. She described this movement as a “cult” in the interview, saying:
