Interview With "Rebuilding" Star Josh O'Connor & Filmmaker Max Walker-Silverman

The Next Best Picture Podcast

Tv & Film

4.2 • 542 Ratings

🗓️ 15 November 2025

⏱️ 16 minutes

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"Rebuilding" is an American independent drama film written and directed by Max Walker-Silverman, starring Josh O'Connor, Lily LaTorre, Meghann Fahy, Kali Reis, and Amy Madigan. The film follows a cowboy named Dusty (O'Connor), who ends up in a FEMA camp after a wildfire destroys his ranch, and he finds community with others who have lost their homes, including his daughter and ex-wife. The film had its world premiere at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival, where it received positive reviews for Max Walker-Silverman's storytelling and filmmaking, as well as O'Connor's nuanced lead performance. O'Connor and Walter-Silverman were both kind enough to spend a few minutes speaking with us about their work and experiences making the film, which you can listen to below. Please be sure to check out the film, which is now playing in theaters from Bleecker Street. Thank you, and enjoy! Check out more on NextBestPicture.com Please subscribe on... Apple Podcasts - https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/negs-best-film-podcast/id1087678387?mt=2 Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/7IMIzpYehTqeUa1d9EC4jT YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWA7KiotcWmHiYYy6wJqwOw And be sure to help support us on Patreon for as little as $1 a month at https://www.patreon.com/NextBestPicture and listen to this podcast ad-free Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You are listening to The Next Best Picture podcast, and this is Giovanni Logo's interview with the director and writer for rebuilding Max Walker Silverman and the film star Josh O'Connor.
0:12.5	What am I doing here?
0:17.8	I know about the ranch.
0:21.6	The way the bank sees it, there's no farm here to borrow against for a house
0:25.6	and no house here to borrow against for a farm.
0:28.6	I'm gonna be staying somewhere else just for the time being.
0:32.6	What's the Wi-Fi?
0:35.6	Wi-Fi? How's your mom?
0:39.3	Mom says you didn't imply yourself.
0:41.3	Yeah, that's true, I guess.
0:43.3	She don't need my help with nothing.
0:45.3	I know you feel like nothing right now, but to her you're reborn.
0:48.3	You ain't earned it, but that's how it is.
0:51.3	Hey there. I'm Mula. Dusty.
0:55.0	Where was your spot?
0:59.0	Up in the hills there?
1:01.0	Yeah, we were all up in them hills.
1:03.0	Why you're here now?
1:05.0	Just between spots, you know.
1:08.0	I'm gonna build this part back just the way it was.
1:11.6	There's a sorrow in they win.
1:16.6	I bet I could be one.
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