
HE to Weintraub: You knew “almost nothing” before seeing it? You knew it would be a UFO-slash-alien movie. You knew that many in the cast would be wearing “Spielberg alien gaze face” in certain scenes. You knew that a young, watery-eyed British actor with jug ears (Josh O’Connor) would be playing a lead role. You knew that Emily Blunt’s weather-girl character would experience a bullshit on-air meltdown. You knew that Janusz “milky bleachy gray” Kaminski had shot it. You knew Spielberg and Universal didn’t want Disclosure Day playing Cannes, presumably for a reason. You knew lots of things so don’t give me that babe-in-the-woods routine.