A biography for Josh O'Connorhasn’t been written yet.
“Fame isn't something I signed up for, it's just a by-product of what I wanted to do.”
“We're living at a time when people are questioning what it means to be male in modern society, and I'm finding it very helpful to explore it through these roles.”
“You have to stop yourself midway through a scene and be like, 'I'm acting with Olivia Colman!'”
“I remember thinking this is everything that England means to me. The huge, flat landscapes with deep reds and greens. Daunting and terrifying and incredible. We should see it more on film, I think.”
“All good art should be political, I think, and inevitably it all becomes political really, in one way or another.”
“I don't think anyone is purely evil or purely brilliant, certainly for Prince Charles.”
“Y'know, even in a lot of heterosexual cinema it's always kind of miserable. Love doesn't work and then, if it does work, it's suddenly a rom-com.”
“I have so much respect for the Queen and for Charles, and what the family represents. And yet there's still a conflict about whether we can abolish the class system while also having a Royal family.”
“Yeah, I guess for years I wanted to be an artist, and when I was growing up, lots of my family were artists, so I was kind of surrounded by that world. Then acting came along, and I loved it immediately.”
“The thing is, I was always a republican, but I have to say I've become completely obsessed with the Queen.”
“Our leaders are archaic masculine figures in so far as they are aggressively old-fashioned in their masculinity, people like Trump, potentially Boris Johnson.”
“I had one lesson with Devil's Horsemen, who do a lot of the horse-riding stuff for films. They train actors to look reasonable on horses. They do 'Game of Thrones', everything.”
“If Leonardo DiCaprio calls, I'll hang out with him, sure.”
“When I left school, all I wanted was to buy a van.”
“When I left drama school I was prepped to be in shows and tour around England by van.”
“I think I'm generally quite good at being able to put things in the past and let them go, as it were.”
“Richard II is my dream part.”
“Regardless of the size of the budget or the name of the director, if the story is really interesting, then I can get on board with it. If it's not, then they're not gonna cast me anyway, because I'll just give a terrible audition.”
“Royals are always very clear about where they're moving, because they've been told by protection officers exactly what they're doing.”
“I love theater and I really wanted to do more theater.”