{"id":2395443,"date":"2026-04-30T01:31:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T01:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2395443"},"modified":"2026-04-30T01:31:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T01:31:07","slug":"josh-oconnor-reveals-the-amazing-advice-he-got-from-steven-spielberg-that-was-actually-a-mixed-up-text","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/josh-oconnor-reveals-the-amazing-advice-he-got-from-steven-spielberg-that-was-actually-a-mixed-up-text\/","title":{"rendered":"Josh O&#8217;Connor reveals the &#8216;amazing&#8217; advice he got from Steven Spielberg \u2014 that was actually a mixed-up text"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-article-body=\"true\">\n<h3 class=\"mb-4 text-lg font-bold\">Key Points<\/h3>\n<ul class=\"mb-4\">\n<li class=\"ml-4 list-disc\">\n<div class=\"\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Josh O&#8217;Connor is recalling a hilarious mix-up that led to an acting breakthrough on the set of <em>Disclosure Day<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"ml-4 list-disc\">\n<div class=\"\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The English actor was &#8220;thrilled&#8221; to receive a late-night text from Spielberg with helpful advice about a tricky scene.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"ml-4 list-disc\">\n<div class=\"\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">But when he arrived the following day on set, he learned what Spielberg really meant by the message, leading to a &#8220;very big joke&#8221; amongst the cast and crew.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-yga=\"{\" ylinkelement=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/ew.com\/person\/steven-spielberg\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:Steven Spielberg;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Steven Spielberg<\/a> is cooking with gas even when he doesn&#8217;t mean to be.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-yga=\"{\" ylinkelement=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/ew.com\/person\/josh-oconnor\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:Josh O'Connor;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Josh O&#8217;Connor<\/a>, one of the stars of the great American maestro&#8217;s mysterious new UFO film <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-yga=\"{\" ylinkelement=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/ew.com\/disclosure-day-trailer-steven-spielberg-11869918\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:Disclosure Day;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \"><em>Disclosure Day<\/em><\/a><em>,<\/em> eagerly shared &#8220;the greatest Steven Spielberg story&#8221; in an interview with the <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-yga=\"{\" ylinkelement=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/disclosure-day-preview-josh-oconnor-steven-spielberg-c06b8de7edee26d3e4f80c63e7f8f7f6\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:Associated Press;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Associated Press<\/a> on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;When it happened, I was sort of like punching the air for this very reason, knowing that when it comes to doing press for this film, I can tell the story,&#8221; O&#8217;Connor began, setting the stage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The rising English star of films like <em>Challengers <\/em>and <em>La Chimera <\/em>explained that &#8220;halfway through the shoot,&#8221; he was preparing for &#8220;quite an emotional scene and I was struggling with it. I was in my hotel room trying to prep it&#8221; when Spielberg &#8220;brilliantly&#8221; offered his perspective on &#8220;the emotion of the scene and how to access that and what we\u2019re ultimately aiming to show in the story. And I felt quite satisfied, but not completely.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Then came a most unexpected late-night text.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"relative mb-4\">\n<div class=\"relative\"><button aria-label=\"View larger image\" class=\"group absolute bottom-0 size-full\" data-ylk=\"elm:expand;itc:1;sec:image-lightbox;slk:lightbox-open;\"><span class=\"absolute bottom-3 right-3 rounded-full bg-primary p-3 opacity-100 shadow-elevation-3 transition-opacity duration-300 group-hover:block group-hover:opacity-100 md:p-[17px] lg:bottom-6 lg:right-6 lg:bg-primary\/90 lg:p-5 lg:opacity-0 lg:shadow-none\"><svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"24\" height=\"24\" viewbox=\"0 0 24 24\" aria-hidden=\"true\" focusable=\"false\" class=\"flex-none size-4 -scale-x-100 text-primary lg:size-6 [&amp;_path]:fill-current\"><path fill=\"currentColor\" d=\"M3.1 3.1V11h1.8V6.314l5.392 5.393 1.415-1.414L6.313 4.9H11V3.1zm17.8 17.8V13h-1.8v4.686l-5.393-5.393-1.415 1.414 5.393 5.393H13v1.8z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/button><dialog aria-label=\"Modal Dialog\" aria-modal=\"true\" class=\"fixed bottom-0 left-0 right-0 top-0 z-4 size-full max-h-none max-w-none bg-primary hidden\"\/><\/div><figcaption class=\"relative text-sm mt-1 pr-2.5\">\n<p><i>Emily Blunt, Steven Spielberg, and Wyatt Russell on the set of &#8216;Disclosure Day&#8217;<br \/>Credit: Niko Tavernise\/Universal Pictures and Amblin Entertainment<\/i><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;I got a text from him quite late at night, just saying, &#8216;The door is on the latch, just push.&#8217; And it made so much sense. I was like, &#8216;of course.&#8217; The character&#8217;s kind of got all this emotion, it&#8217;s built up and it&#8217;s like a door on the latch and you just push and it all comes out and it&#8217;s an emotional release,&#8221; O&#8217;Connor shared.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">He waltzed back onto the set of Spielberg&#8217;s highly anticipated return to extraterrestrial cinema &#8220;so thrilled with that note,&#8221; and went straight to Spielberg to thank him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;&#8216;Steven, you totally unlocked it for me. That was amazing,'&#8221; O&#8217;Connor recalled. &#8220;And he was like, &#8216;What are you talking about?'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;I said, &#8216;The text about &#8216;the door on the latch just push&#8217; it&#8217;s incredible.&#8217; And he laughed and said that that text was supposed to be for his wife. It became a very big joke for all of us. But it did unlock the scene for me, so, fair play,&#8221; O&#8217;Connor explained.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><strong><em>Get your daily dose of entertainment news, celebrity updates, and what to watch with\u00a0our\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-yga=\"{\" ylinkelement=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/ew.com\/ew-dispatch-newsletter-11812417\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:EW Dispatch newsletter;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \"><strong><em>EW Dispatch newsletter<\/em><\/strong><\/a><strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><em>Disclosure Day<\/em> is Spielberg&#8217;s 37th feature film as a director and another in his career exploration of life beyond life on Earth, adding to a lineage that includes <em>E.T.,<\/em> <em>Close Encounters of the Third Kind,<\/em> <em>War of the Worlds<\/em>, and, yes, <em>Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The film co-stars O&#8217;Connor, Emily Blunt, Colin Firth, and Colman Domingo and premieres in just over a month, but little is known about its plot and themes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Spielberg ventured out to Las Vegas earlier this month to <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-yga=\"{\" ylinkelement=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/ew.com\/steven-spielberg-shows-off-disclosure-day-aliens-cinemacon-11950592\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:tease new footage from the film;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">tease new footage from the film<\/a> during the Universal presentation at CinemaCon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Though there was significant overlap between footage used in the film&#8217;s official trailer and what was shown at CinemaCon, that latter presentation included a first look at <em>Disclosure Day<\/em>&#8216;s aliens.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">One intriguing shot toward the end of the new footage showed several human figures holding umbrellas over the heads of smaller humanoid creatures that bear a striking resemblance to the small aliens at the end of <em>Close Encounters<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Fans will have to wait until <em>Disclosure Day <\/em>premieres on June 12 to see what Spielberg&#8217;s been cooking up.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Read the original article on <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-yga=\"{\" ylinkelement=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/ew.com\/josh-oconnor-reveals-amazing-advice-from-steven-spielberg-mixed-up-text-11961818\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:Entertainment Weekly;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Entertainment Weekly<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Key Points Josh O&#8217;Connor is recalling a hilarious mix-up that led to an acting breakthrough on the set of Disclosure Day. The English actor was &#8220;thrilled&#8221; to receive a late-night text from Spielberg with helpful advice about a tricky scene. But when he arrived the following day on set, he learned what Spielberg really meant [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2395444,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[467455,467454,387120,395171],"class_list":["post-2395443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-disclosure-day","tag-josh-o39connor","tag-spielberg","tag-text"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Josh-OConnor-reveals-the-amazing-advice-he-got-from-Steven.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2395443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2395443"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2395443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2395445,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2395443\/revisions\/2395445"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2395444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2395443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2395443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2395443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}