Josh O’Connor Details Disclosure Day Secrecy in Motorbike Delivery
Josh O’Connor said disclosure day came with an unusual level of secrecy: Steven Spielberg’s script arrived at his UK hotel by motorbike, and another motorbike came back the next morning to take it away. He called it a very strange experience, and one that fit a film Spielberg has kept tightly under wraps before its June 12 theatrical premiere.
Motorbike Delivery in the UK
O’Connor was filming Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery in the UK when the script arrived. He said, “There was, of course, a level of secrecy.” The delivery itself sounded engineered to avoid leaks: “When I received the script I was filming Knives Out and I was in a hotel and a motorbike turned up with the script, and a motorbike turned up to take away the script the next morning.”
“That’s the first time that’s happened for me,” he said, adding, “It’s a very strange experience but it makes sense.” For a production built around secrecy, the physical handoff is the point. The script did not sit in a mailbox or move through an ordinary office chain; it moved in and out of his hotel under guard-like timing.
Spielberg Keeps Disclosure Day Hidden
Spielberg said at CinemaCon that the movie is “entirely shrouded in mystery.” He also said, “There are those who know exactly what is happening in our skies [and] this movie will cause you to ask a lot of questions.” His other line was even more direct: “This is a movie that needs to be experienced, and what you need to get from the beginning to the end is a seatbelt.”
O’Connor said he understood the motive behind the secrecy: “You know, anytime you hear that Steven’s got a film coming out, everyone, myself included, wants to know what it is, so I totally understand why.” That control extends beyond the marketing language and into the handling of the screenplay itself, which was written by David Koepp.
Daniel and the June 12 Premiere
O’Connor plays Daniel, a cyber security expert with access to long-held government secrets about extraterrestrial life who plans to become a whistleblower. That role places him inside the film’s central leak risk: a character built around hidden information in a project that has been protected with unusual care.
Disclosure Day is scheduled to premiere in theaters on June 12, and Spielberg’s approach suggests the sell is not plot summary but controlled revelation. He has previously made films about life on other planets, including Close Encounters of the Third Kind in 1977 and E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial in 1982, but this one is being sold on secrecy rather than exposition.
