Josh Oconnor attracted to lack of protagonist in Cannes -entry to the brain

* Britain’s O’Connor in two Cannes competition entries * Director Kelly Reichardt investigates the ‘Bumbing Jerk’ by Miranda Murray Cannes, France, May 24 (Reuters) -Rising British Actor Josh O’Connor is attracted to how normal his character in ‘The Master looked at the US to the US director. Film that appeared at the Cannes Film Festival. “When we go to the theaters, we often see the most extreme versions of characters, of human nature. And that’s what we know is drama,” O’Connor told journalists on Saturday. “However, I now find that I regularly want to see ordinary people in an extraordinary positions,” said the actor who played Prince Charles in the TV series ‘The Crown’. James Mooney of O’Connor is an unemployed carpenter with a woman, played by Alana Haim, and two children in the 1970s Massachusetts who decide to steal four paintings from the early American modernist Arthur Dove of the local city museum. The plan almost begins to unravel from the beginning, as Mooney, with no criminal experience, steals the art, but is forced to hide, away from his family, while the police are looking for him. “The Mastermind” is one of two films in the competition for the best prize of the festival that O’Connor, the other, is the romance of gay period “the history of sound” with Paul Mescal. The actor described Mooney’s too confident plan as a ‘artwork in itself’, one who comes from the privilege and ‘of generations of men who are told that they deserve something more.’ For the film, director Reichardt said she was interested in exploring the typical “bumbling jerk” character of the new Hollywood who could do what he wanted and still held through the audience. Examples are Robert de Niro’s Travis Bickle in ‘Taxi Driver’ or any Jack Nicholson character, the director of films said, including ‘First Cow’, ‘Old Joy’ and ‘Wendy and Lucy’. “I’m interested in the tradition, but I’m also interested in breaking it down a bit and seeing how the parts of it work and then fall apart,” she told journalists. Reichardt said the streaming platform Mubi, who bought the Mastermind, gave the resources and did not impose it. “All the arts in America are, like science and education, of course in a very dangerous situation,” Reichardt says, adding, “America is in such a dark place.” (Reporting by Miranda Murray; Editing by David Evans)