In the new film La Chimera (now in select theaters), Josh O’Connor’s Arthur, an irascible British archeologist reunited with his old gang of Italian tomb raiders, embarks on a personal quest with no particular destination. He is ostensibly after a lost love, and maybe a gateway to the afterlife. But as he goes about discovering valuable artifacts deep in the Tuscan ground, we observe a man fueled by endless curiosity. His motivations are less material than those of his fellow grimy scavengers—but perhaps similar to those of Alice Rohrwacher, a filmmaker of melancholic, mystical whimsy.
After spending an hour with O’Connor, it’s clear these traits also align with him. The British actor best known for originating the role of Charles in The Crown, to Emmy- and Golden Globe-winning acclaim, is graduating to movie-star status this spring with his double bill in La Chimera and Challengers, the latter of which hits theaters on April 26. (It was delayed from a planned September 2023 premiere due to the SAG-AFTRA strike.) He demonstrates startling range in each film, and arguably steals both. In the former, he’s the lead, speaking (deliberately) clunky Italian among a fluent cast, violent storms of feeling playing out across his watchful gaze. In the latter, he’s one third of a heated love triangle with Zendaya and Mike Faist, playing a pulsating psychosexual power game in classic Luca Guadagnino fashion.
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There’s a powerful connection between performer and character in La Chimera, a perfect showcase for O’Connor’s gifts. But Challengers’ braggadocious Patrick, his buoyant grin and sculpted physique (including, so we’re told, a certain large external organ) throwing chaos into the lives of all around him, feels equally thrilling, presenting O’Connor at his sexiest and most mercurial. Naturally, for our wide-ranging conversation over Zoom, we began there.
Vanity Fair: There’s a real swagger to Patrick in Challengers that felt distinctive from most of your past work. How do you relate to his personality?
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Josh O’Connor: I don’t. [Laughs] It is a tricky one. Generally speaking, when I go into any character, I’ll try and find the things that are different about a character. Most actors, we’re all deeply insecure, don’t love ourselves. Even if they portray this idea that they do, most people don’t. So the joy of being an actor is you don’t have to be yourself for a bit, and don’t have to be in your head. Truly, I have no interest in tennis, apart from the fact that I like watching it. The idea of competitiveness, I think I understand. I have an element of that inside me, although not like Patrick in the slightest.
But the idea of flow is something that I really focused on with Patrick. When he’s playing tennis at its best, it’s the back and forth. He has very little interest in just being a tennis player. What’s interesting to him is playing people who can challenge him, and where it’s a give-and-receive. It’s a really tough question because I find it hard to relate to him, which is probably a good thing.
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