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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.

Disclosure Day, which also stars Emily Blunt, Coleman Domingo, and Colin Firth, builds on the very real folklore of a government cover-up.

Roswell, crop circles, and people who say they've recovered memories of UFO encounters.

Josh O'Connor, welcome to Fresh Air.

The details of this film, as I mentioned, kind of like cloak and dagger even for you when you receive the script.

There's this funny story that you tell.

What's the story?

You mentioned maybe this happens for all blockbuster films, but this is your first real blockbuster film.

You've spent most of your career in these kind of small, quiet films.

What was it like to walk on a set, a Spielberg set of this size?

You know what's interesting is so many of your characters are quiet characters.

They live in what's not said.

It's what you bring out.

You pull off restraint so well.

Thanks.

Spielberg has this reputation, not every film, but many of his films, of being a maximalist.

There's the wonder and the awe and this feeling of being out front.

How did those two sensibilities meet in a room?