{"id":200335,"date":"2025-10-14T21:42:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T21:42:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/200335\/"},"modified":"2025-10-14T21:42:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T21:42:14","slug":"josh-oconnor-is-trying-not-to-spoil-his-spielberg-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/200335\/","title":{"rendered":"Josh O’Connor is trying not to spoil his Spielberg movie"},"content":{"rendered":"

Very little is yet known about Steven Spielberg\u2019s next film, except that it\u2019s a sci-fi story. It sounds like that\u2019s about all the info Josh O\u2019Connor got before signing on, too. \u201cHe just said to me, \u2018I\u2019ve got this idea for this movie I\u2019ve wanted to make for a long time.\u2019 And he sort of described it, but not enough,\u201d O\u2019Connor recalls of their first meeting in a new profile for <\/a>GQ<\/a>. \u201cHe didn\u2019t tell me the story of the movie. He just said, \u2018It\u2019s kind of like this, and there\u2019s like these two characters.\u2019 And I was like, \u2018Right.\u2019 And he was like, \u2018It is kind of this, but it\u2019s not.\u2019 And I was like, \u2018Right.\u2019 And he was like, \u2018Sound good?\u2019 And I was like, \u2018Yeah, but not because of that, because it\u2019s you! You haven\u2019t told me anything.’\u201d<\/p>\n

Notice how O\u2019Connor is also not telling us anything; he\u2019s very careful not to reveal too much about the plot. Previously, he told <\/a>Deadline<\/a> that he shares the screen most with Emily Blunt, and that their characters are related \u201cin some way,\u201d though he wouldn\u2019t say how. For GQ, he described the movie as \u201can ensemble thing,\u201d hesitating to even call his character the lead. \u201cI think he\u2019s the lead!\u201d Blunt countered, adding, \u201cIt is a big ensemble piece, but Josh is very much the heartbeat.\u201d<\/p>\n

That still doesn\u2019t give much away, does it? Returning to facts we know: O\u2019Connor and Blunt co-star in the movie with Colin Firth, Eve Hewson, Colman Domingo, and Wyatt Russell. The as-yet untitled film is based on an original story treatment from Spielberg with a screenplay by David Koepp (with whom he collaborated on Jurassic Park and War Of The Worlds). It\u2019s been called a \u201cUFO film<\/a>,\u201d and O\u2019Connor described it to Deadline as \u201cold-school Spielberg\u201d in the world of Close Encounters Of The Third Kind and E.T.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy first day of filming, there was a lighting rig that was just a big beam of light from car headlights, smoke, rain dripping off pipes,\u201d he now shares with GQ. \u201cAnd you\u2019re like, \u2018This is such a Spielberg setting.\u2019 In some ways you don\u2019t even acknowledge it. But for you and I\u2026 Steven Spielberg has been the architect of our childhood. Little things penetrate your mind, whether it\u2019s the headlights [in] Jurassic Park with the rain coming down\u2026 or those kids eating all that pudding before their little Tyrannosaurus Rex comes in the window.\u201d<\/p>\n

On working with the filmmaker, O\u2019Connor gushed to Deadline in May that Spielberg is \u201cjust the most special person.\u201d The actor said, \u201cHe seems to have the most incredible amount of energy I\u2019ve ever witnessed. He comes up to you, he whispers in your ear like an excited child about an idea, a thought, and it\u2019s truly inspiring.\u201d<\/p>\n

The film reportedly wrapped in June<\/a>, and while O\u2019Connor remains mum on spoilers, he continues to praise the legendary director. \u201cHe\u2019s not in any way complacent. He\u2019s still calling you the night before, being like, \u2018What do you think of this line?’\u201d the Challengers star says to GQ. He tells an amusing anecdote about getting texted a note from Spielberg\u2014\u201dThe door is ajar, just push\u201d\u2014that completely unlocked an emotional scene O\u2019Connor was struggling with. It turns out, the text was actually meant for Spielberg\u2019s wife about a literal door, but it was in keeping with the way the auteur \u201cwill say something that\u2019s mind-blowing and poetic and incredible,\u201d O\u2019Connor explains. \u201cI was right to investigate it, because it is the kind of thing he would write. And it fucking worked!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Very little is yet known about Steven Spielberg\u2019s next film, except that it\u2019s a sci-fi story. It sounds…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":200336,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-200335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200335\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}