Josh O’Connor Drawn to Flawed Protagonist in Cannes Entry ‘The Mastermind’

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Josh O’Connor drawn to flawed protagonist in Cannes entry ‘The Mastermind’

By Miranda Murray CANNES, France (Reuters) -Rising British actor Josh O’Connor was drawn to how normal his character in “The Mastermind”, a suburban dad who cooks up an art heist, seemed when he signed on to U.S. director Kelly Reichardt’s new film that premiered at the Cannes Film Festival. “When we go to the theatres, we see often times the most extreme versions of characters, of human nature. And that’s what we know is drama,” O’Connor told j…

The Mastermind review: Josh O'Connor leads art-theft film that will "stay with you in its aftermath"

“Honestly, I don’t think you’ve thought things through enough.” So James Mooney (Josh O’Connor) is told in Kelly Reichardt’s art-theft tale.Unveiled in competition at the Cannes Film Festival, The Mastermind might yet be Reichardt’s most commercial vehicle, although up against her earlier films like Wendy and Lucy, First Cow and Certain Women, all delicate, nuanced and often slow-moving works, that’s hardly saying much.Set in the early 1970s, O’…

Josh O’Connor Says ‘There’s a Kindness’ to Working With ‘Mastermind’ Director Kelly Reichardt and Responds to Paul Mescal Calling Him ‘Silly’: ‘I Am’

Josh O'Connor heaped praise on his "The Mastermind" director Kelly Reichardt during the film's Cannes press conference on Saturday.

On Friday night, the director of "First Cox" presented a deafened thriller in the Americas of the Seventies, worn by a delicate Josh O的Connor. ...

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