A few days ago I posted some thoughts on my Thanksgiving Day viewing of Rian Johnson’s latest Knives Out mystery: Wake Up Dead Man.  As I mentioned then, I really appreciated what Johnson was able to do with the sincerity of one the movie’s lead characters, Josh O’Connor’s Father Jud.  The movie did leave me wondering some about Johnson’s religious background.  Now that I’m not worried about spoilers (for myself, at least), I’ve done a bit more reading about the movie.  So:

[beware of the links below- spoilers lurk on the other side]

The Ringer recently posted a great piece on the movie that also praised O’Connor’s handling of Father Jud.  And in that piece was included a link to a bit of an interview between Johnson and the folks at Empire Magazine that speaks to his own religious background.  I’d be curious to hear more of his story; I’m grateful that he can talk about his change of worldview without deriding those who still hold to it.