#josh-oconnor

#josh-oconnor

The Saturday Night Live fangirls (and Challengers-enjoyers) were well fed last night. Josh O'Connor was kissing a lot of boys on SNL. Well, okay, just two boys. But if you had a nickel for every not ready for primetime fella Josh O'Connor kissed last night, you'd have two nickels. And that's two more nickels than you had before. In the first sketch, Bowen Yang's inscrutable doctor did a lot of nonsense instead of giving Andrew Dismukes the results of his blood work.

Kelly Reichardt has been called one of America's greatest filmmakers, and also one of its quietest. But her latest, The Mastermind, centered on an art heist that goes off the rails, is probably her loudest movie yet and definitely her biggest budget to date.

We meet young priest Reverend Jud Duplenticy (O'Connor), who turned to Christ after he killed a man in the boxing ring, assigned to the small parish in upstate New York. It's here, in a house of God, where an impossible murder plays out like a biblical miracle. Arriving in the quaint village, Jud is met with the fiery wrath of Monsignor Jefferson Wicks (Josh Brolin). Jefferson immediately sets the tone for Jud's new priest tenure with detailed confessions of his masturbation sins.

Paul Mescal and Josh O'Connor cannot do an interview together for their new film, The History of Sound, without cracking each other up. It's an affliction with no cure. Director Oliver Hermanus called them out after the film's premiere at Cannes. "It was a really strong bond," he said of his leading men, "and they were naughty." That naughtiness has not subsided - they laugh at each other's voices, their postures, their anecdotes.