It seems that Odom Jr. is looking to expand his murder-mystery repertoire with "Knives Out 2." He plays Lionel Toussaint, the head scientist at Miles's company. Odom Jr. has experience with mysteries and crime dramas — he was previously seen as Dr. Arbuthnot in 2017's "Murder on the Orient Express," Maliko Christo in "Vanished," Peter Collier in "Person of Interest," and Reverend Curtis Scott in "Law & Order: SVU."
Odom Jr. told Indiewire about his character's dilemmas in the movie, "Part of the tension of him at the top of this film is because he is so close to achieving something that would honor his years of study and the things that he cares about most, but he is aligned with someone that is duplicitous, and that is manipulative and very wealthy and someone who pulls the strings." He added, "A lot of us find ourselves in that situation in the real world. There's a lot of tension in the relationship dynamics at the top of this movie."
