Josh O’Connor has had a banner 2025, starring in queer drama The History of Sound, art heist comedy The Mastermind, and highly anticipated whodunnit Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery.
But that’s not all! O’Connor’s busy 2025 slate actually kicked off back in Jan. with the Sundance Film Festival release of the upcoming drama Rebuilding, written and directed by Max Walker-Silverman.
Audiences have seen O’Connor as royalty in The Crown and as a tennis hotshot in Challengers. In Rebuilding, though, he’s in full-on cowboy mode. He plays Dusty, a Colorado cowboy who loses his entire ranch to a devastating wildfire. With no home left, he moves into a FEMA trailer camp, where he forges new bonds with his neighbors who, like him, have lost everything. He also reconnects with his ex-wife Ruby (The White Lotus Season 2’s Meghann Fahy) and young daughter Callie-Rose (Lily LaTorre).
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Rebuilding received largely positive reviews out of its premiere at Sundance, praising O’Connor’s performance as well as the film’s empathy for Dusty and his new community members. That quiet empathy is on display in the film’s first trailer, which promises O’Connor ruminating on life, family, and his daughter’s future.
In addition to O’Connor, Fahy, and LaTorre, Rebuilding also stars True Detective: Night Country‘s Kali Reis and Weapons‘ Amy Madigan.
Rebuilding hits theaters Nov. 14.
