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Josh O'Connor takes the lead in 'Disclosure Day'

6/11/202644 min

O'Connor stars as a cybersecurity expert who decides the world deserves to know the truth about alien life in the Steven Spielberg film Disclosure Day. He speaks with Tonya Mosley about preparing in secret to star in the summer Blockbuster, why he initially had no interest in playing Prince Charles in The Crown, and why he gets sick after completing almost every role.

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Spielberg Text Mix-Up
Secret Script Delivery
Reluctant Royal Republican
Farmhand Between Takes
Gift Of Dyslexia

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First 90 seconds

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  2. Tonya Mosley· Host0:15

    This is Fresh Air. I'm Tonya Mosley, and my guest today is actor Josh O'Connor. Many of us first came to know O'Connor as a young Prince Charles in the Netflix series The Crown, as a charming washed-up tennis player in Challengers, and the young priest in the latest Knives Out film. But for a significant portion of his career, he's also worked in independent film, including the British drama God's Own Country. This summer, he turns up somewhere different as the lead in Steven Spielberg's latest blockbuster, Disclosure Day. It's Spielberg's return to the question that gave us Close Encounters of the Third Kind and E.T.: Are we alone? O'Connor plays a cybersecurity expert who gets hold of the government's proof that aliens are among us and decides the rest of the world has a right to see the evidence. In this scene we're about to hear, O'Connor's character, Daniel, has just shown the woman he's seeing, played by Eve Hewson, video proof.

  3. Josh O'Connor· Guest1:16

    There's more. Seventy-nine years more. There have been retrieval programs of exotic craft, interrogation of non-human

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