Warning! This article contains spoilers for Glass Onion.Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery features plenty of humorous references to many A-list celebrities, with Jeremy Renner seemingly taking the brunt of the majority of the film’s jokes. In this way, Glass Onion continues the first film’s meta references to wider real-world issues and humorous celebrity jokes. While the film certainly features a lot of references to other celebrities, with Edward Norton’s Miles Bron clearly being based on the likes of Elon Musk, the ones invoking Jeremy Renner seem to crop up more often.
The first and most prominent joke in Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery revolving around Jeremy Renner is that of his private line of hot sauce. Besides this, there are a few references to Jeremy Renner’s very eventful 2019 summer. The hot sauce joke, however, remains the pick of the bunch. However, what began as seemingly humorous commentary on Miles’ wealth allowing him to have direct connections to celebrities and their brands actually ends up being vital to the plot in one very funny way, potentially explaining the sheer volume of references.
Real Life Makes Glass Onion’s Jeremy Renner Jokes Funnier
One of the questions many might have after seeing Glass Onion is why Jeremy Renner in particular saw many jokes levied against him. While the actor does not actually have his own line of hot sauce, there are some real-life elements that likely factored into the film’s Jeremy Renner-centered jokes. One of these slightly links to the hot sauce, in that Renner featured in the highly popular Youtube series Hot Ones. However, Renner’s very eventful summer of 2019 also features in the Glass Onion movie to some capacity.
In 2019, shortly after the release of Avengers: Endgame, Renner had a very busy year. From the release of plenty of music to his own app aptly titled Jeremy Renner and owning his own Amazon store, Renner’s celebrity ventures provide a lot of ammo for humorous references in Glass Onion. With the Amazon store receiving a few digs in Glass Onion, it is clear that Rian Johnson was attempting to simply poke fun at the way celebrities can expand their status through a variety of ways, none summed up more than the hot sauce gag.
Jeremy Renner’s Hot Sauce Is Glass Onion’s Best Celebrity Joke
In a twist that Jeremy Renner himself is undoubtedly appreciative of thanks to his receiving the brunt of the jokes, Renner’s hot sauce ends up being vital to the plot, therefore making it one of the best in the film. Some other Glass Onion celebrity references have plot elements also though, such as Jared Leto’s Kombucha, which allows Janelle Monáe’s Helen to go on a drunken rant throughout the film in a recurring gag. Renner’s hot sauce though is vital to the final deducing scene from Benoit Blanc, with the scene failing to work without the joke.
After Andi – revealed to be her twin sister Helen – is supposedly shot and killed, Blanc covers her with the hot sauce to fake her death and convince Miles to reveal his guilt – which Blanc further sells by rubbing the hot sauce in his eyes to make him seemingly weep. While the jokes in and of themselves are funny, the fact that the hot sauce plays such a vital role in the film’s central plot just highlights Rian Johnson’s best subversion trait and his attention to detail present in the script, all the while proving why Glass Onion and its meta murder mystery is a worthy successor to Knives Out.
