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Director Kelly Reichardt, left, and Josh O'Connor pose for a portrait to promote the film "The Mastermind" in London on Monday, Oct. 13, 2025. (Photo by Scott A Garfitt/Invision/AP)

NEW YORK – The first thing Kelly Reichardt saw Josh O’Connor in was his 2017 breakthrough film, “God’s Own Country,” in which he played the sheep farmer Johnny Saxby.

“The next thing I knew of him was ‘The Crown,’ but I didn’t really realize it was the same actor. Then I got hip to that,” Reichardt says. “I thought he had a kind of timeless face.”

This fall, that face is everywhere. O’Connor stars in four films, including the New England romance “The History of Sound,” with Paul Mescal; “Rebuilding,” in which he plays a Colorado rancher whose home is taken by wildfires; Rian Johnson’s w

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