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ITV News Entertainment Reporter Rishi Davda sits down with Steven Spielberg and Josh O’Connor ahead of the UK launch of sci-fi thriller Disclosure Day<\/p>\n
Steven Spielberg knows how to make a movie. He\u2019s got the Oscars, BAFTAs and Golden Globes to prove it. The filmmaker\u2019s trophy case also boasts Emmys, a Tony and a Grammy. <\/p>\n
The 79-year-old is part of the elite EGOT (Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, Tony) winners community. I do sometimes wonder if they have a group chat?<\/p>\n
He\u2019s masterminded so many iconic films, including Jurassic Park, E.T., the Indiana Jones franchise, Jaws, Saving Private Ryan and my own personal favourite The Terminal. The full list is way way longer.<\/p>\n
Spielberg\u2019s newest film is Disclosure Day, which details the race to reveal the truth about the existence of aliens.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
The director was inspired to make the film almost a decade ago, when media outlets in the US started to report on the Pentagon\u2019s secretive attempts to secure testimony from pilots and other US military personnel who claimed to have seen peculiar objects flying in the sky.<\/p>\n
Spielberg told me that “when the mainstream media started taking this seriously, it rekindled in 2017, my interest, which was reflected in \u2018Close Encounters of the Third Kind\u2019, and then \u2018E.T.\u2019 and \u2018War of the Worlds\u2019.”<\/p>\n
\u201cI suddenly started to look at this in a more realistic way, not as science fiction, but as something that was possibly starting to disclose itself.\u201d<\/p>\n
Spielberg spoke to ITV News about the upcoming release. Credit: ITV News<\/p>\n
Sat alongside Spielberg is British actor Josh O\u2019Connor. Perhaps best-known for his Emmy award-winning performance as Prince Charles in The Crown, plus starring alongside Zendaya in the pop culture-penetrating hit Challengers.<\/p>\n
When asked if working alongside Spielberg on Disclosure Day had changed his perception of the potential of extraterrestrial life, O\u2019Connor says he was \u201calways open to\u201d the idea of other lifeforms.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf you look up at the sky at night, it\u2019s very east to imagine that we\u2019re probably not alone….the information is out there. I\u2019m just kind of curious to have more of it released.\u201d<\/p>\n
Should the time eventually come that the existence of aliens is officially confirmed, Spielberg believes there would be a \u201cvariety of responses\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cSome people will say \u2018I knew all along and I\u2019ve been preparing myself all along, and it doesn\u2019t disturb me\u2019. <\/p>\n
\u201cOther people will feel an ontological shock of social dislocation, that this is turning what I consider to be a fundamental reality upside down and would not handle it well. Everybody would have a unique reaction.\u201d<\/p>\n
Disclosure Day will come out on Wednesday, June 10. Credit: Universal Pictures<\/p>\n
O\u2019Connor was drawn to Disclosure Day for two reasons, firstly there\u2019s the Spielberg element. <\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t think you can take out the Stephen factor. A director who has a clear vision is always very attractive and helpful.\u201d<\/p>\n
The 36-year-old is also keen that his filmography mirrors that of his idols.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think the actors that I aspire to, people like Tom Hanks, Robin Williams, Gene Wilder, people who have had diverse careers where they can do comedy and then they can do tragedy, they can do action.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI think about the young version of me at drama school and why I was so drawn to Shakespeare. You have that diversity of character across Shakespeare\u2019s works or in the theatre.\u201d<\/p>\n
Josh O’Connor and Emily Blunt star in the film. Credit: Universal Pictures<\/p>\n
Theatre is very much a traditional art form that has stood the test of time. As movies evolve and embrace new technology, Spielberg is still on the side of traditional tricks.<\/p>\n
In Disclosure Day, Emily Blunt briefly delivers dialogue in an entirely made up alien language.<\/p>\n
\u201cI would never have made that choice,\u201d Steven reveals. \u201cEven if Emily was unable to produce the sounds that she did produce organically, I would never have used AI (artificial intelligence).\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI would have probably gone the old-fashioned way. You get a dolphin or you get an elephant and you slow it down, or you speed it up or you play it backwards.\u201d<\/p>\n
Spielberg said he had been drawn back to UFO films after public attention returned to the topic in recent years. Credit: Universal Pictures<\/p>\n
Spielberg has been churning out flicks since the 60s, pretty much all of which would have been accompanied by a trailer.<\/p>\n
There\u2019s a skill to the perfect 2-minute teaser, that in recent years seems to have been watered down to basically give away the whole plot.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t believe in that\u201d, he laughs. \u201cThe sign for me of a good trailer basically is less is more. It\u2019s just kind of priming the engine of public interest.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cSome audiences like to see the whole film in two and a half minutes\u2026but the element of surprise is missing. The element of surprise is the whole reason I got into movies to begin with.”<\/p>\n