Josh O’Connor on Mastermind, Kelly Reichardt, Paul Mescal’s idiot commentary

Josh O’Connor praised her director of “The Mastermind” Kelly Reichardt at the Cannes film press conference on Saturday, saying “There is a kindness” to work with her “that you do not get often”.

“I do not know that I had necessarily aware at the time, but there is something to work with Kelly,” said O’Connor. “There is a kindness to work with Kelly that you don’t get often. I find that it really informs a performance. ”

“The Mastermind”, a pricing film of the 70s with O’Connor as a thief of art on the race and Alana Haim as a woman, obtained a standing ovation of 5.5 minutes during his first Thursday evening. Earlier in the press conference, O’Connor said he was “a great follower of Kelly’s films” before signing the project and that he had been attracted by his character because of his “ordinary” nature.

“When we go to the theater, we often see the most extreme versions of the characters and human nature, and that is what we know as a drama,” he said. “I find that now I often want to see ordinary people putting so extraordinary positions.”

O’Connor, who is in a second Cannes competition film with “The History of Sound” alongside Paul Mescal, was also invited to answer his co-star the calling “silly” against the pressure of this film earlier in the week. O’Connor missed the first of “The History of Sound” due to the shooting of Steven Spielberg’s next film.

“It seems a little shy but Josh is incredibly silly for me,” said Mescal on Thursday. “We were obsessed with this regime during the filming process, but we have also become obliged to have eight joyful breeders per day … There is a microcosm of our relationship that I think of Josh and I think of Jolly Ranchers.”

O’Connor replied: “Regarding Paul, I am silly. And we did it – every Friday, we eat candies, it was our treat. »»

When he was asked what it feels to have two films in competition and to be an “actor of the moment”, O’Connor said: “I spend less time at home, it’s the song that fears”, adding: “I feel very lucky to work. It’s just a little while, it’s going to pass. It’s going to go at a minute now, so for now I’m just soaking everything. “

Alongside O’Connor and Haim, “The Mastermind” also features John Magaro, Hope Davis, Bill Camp, Gaby Hoffmann, Eli Gelb, Cole Doman, Javion Allen, Matthew Maher, Rhenzy Feliz and Ryan Homchick. In addition to the realization, Reichardt also wrote the script.

After the ovation standing during the first in the film on Thursday evening, Reichardt delivered a poignant message: “America is in a ditch right now, but we will be released. But in the meantime, we have the films.”

Reichardt developed at the press conference, saying: “It’s really scary. It is surprising to know how far it has left at what speed. More scary for me, he looked at Tufts, the college where I went, looking at a young woman getting out of the class and was growing in a van and out of the country. It’s more frightening. “

Magaro then entered, the caller “ridiculous”. “We have a leader who has anger attacks every day, but that affects millions and millions of people,” he continued. “It is difficult for me to remain full of hope, but we always have a legal system to a certain extent in this country and I have the impression that it will be difficult for him to maintain this crazy order in place.”

Although “the brain” does not have a foreign political message, it takes place in the context of the Vietnam War, which said O’Connor added to the way he built his character.

“We are surrounded by men who often have low self-esteem and a large ego,” he said. “It comes from the privilege, a total privilege. This comes from generations of men who said they deserve something more. ”