Josh O'Connor Talks Finding the Pete Postlethwaite Vibes and His New Feature Rebuilding

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Director Max Walker-Silverman's latest feature Rebuilding is a special one. The story of a young man (Josh O'Connor) who loses everything in a fire and ends up building a strong relationship with his daughter (Lily LaTorre) is a simple, enigmatic story about relationships, community and the ways we cope when our timelines don't align with our personal beliefs. It's a feature that sees almost out of the past in the world of IP and movies dumbed down for audiences.

These are themes close to Walker-Silverman's heart; they were displayed in his previous film, 2022's A Love Song. "That's why poems exist, and music, and maybe even movies, I guess," Walker-Silverman tells The Film Maven. For him, he returns to these themes as indicative of the "great and ongoing human struggle" of wondering if we'll find someone to connect with and, more importantly, can you hold onto it. "The actual experience of that is not someone that anyone has ever summarized," he says.