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Emily Blunt, Colman Domingo, and Josh O'Connor on the director's alien obsession and meeting fellow believer Barack Obama on set_  by [Eliana Dockterman](https://time.com/author/eliana-dockterman/)  ## Eliana Dockterman Correspondent Jun 10, 2026 12:00 PM UTC  by [Eliana Dockterman](https://time.com/author/eliana-dockterman/)  ## Eliana Dockterman Correspondent Jun 10, 2026 12:00 PM UTC Steven Spielberg has been making movies about aliens for half a century, and each blockbuster reflects the time in which it was made. _Close Encounters of the Third Kind_ is a post-Watergate movie about distrust in government; _E.T._ channels the consumerist, suburban anxieties of the Reagan era; _War of the Worlds_ captures post-9/11 panic. Now _Disclosure Day,_ out June 12, tells the story of a planet on the brink of world war, where a furtive battle breaks out over what to do with a radical new truth: we are not alone. The debate over whether the disclosure of this information will bring humanity together or fracture it further puts corporate titans, scientists, broadcasters, and even nuns at dangerous odds with one another. Colman Domingo plays a soothsayer orchestrating the revelation of decades’ worth of evidence that aliens have visited earth in peace. Josh O’Connor and Emily Blunt are his overwhelmed disciples, imbued with discomfiting powers that could be key to making contact with these otherworldly guests. A mysterious company in cahoots with the government, both of which stand to benefit from suppressing the information, gives chase to the would-be whistle-blowers. The trio of actors spoke with TIME about how Spielberg persuaded them to believe in alien life, their encounter with fellow believer former President Barack Obama, and how the movie will continue to shift the cultural conversation around extraterrestrials.  Josh O'Connor in Disclosure Day Niko Tavernise—Universal Pictures and Amblin Entertainment #### TIME: What made you want to do this movie, besides the fact that Spielberg was directing it? Blunt: I mean, we would all do craft services for Steven. Domingo: We would do anything, anything. Blunt: I ran home with a hard copy \[of the script\], and I read it so fast, and I called him—Colman, we both called him and cried. We were just so overwhelmed by how breathtaking the script \[by frequent Spielberg collaborator David Koepp\] was. #### Did he discuss his preoccupation with alien life with you before or during filming? Blunt: It’s evident in his movies, even some of his earliest work that he would shoot as a 17-year-old boy, that he has always had a fascination with what’s beyond the stars. Some directors have explored going there themselves. He has been interested in how visitations would affect us, and I think that is very true to Steven’s humanistic tendencies: How would we be shifted as a civilization? Domingo: It sort of upends us and makes us rethink everything—government, religion, division, race, you name it. It puts that all aside, and we have to form another union. I think, in a beautiful way, we’re all together in this. O’Connor: We’re living in an incredibly hostile, fractured world politically. In those times, what we need is humility, and there’s nothing better to see how small we are in the grand scheme of things than to have visitors come—visitors who have never caused any harm or violence or hatred. #### The movie reckons with how alien life would challenge the notion of God and our belief systems. Blunt: It brings into question how much really we can control. I think it would be an arrogant thing to presume we are alone in the universe or that we are the most powerful, technologically advanced civilization... All the research we did through the congressional hearings, the documentaries, what was evident is the people who had these experiences \[encountering UFOs\], whether they were from a religious background, wildly different political backgrounds, there was just a peacefulness that had taken over them. Whether they were discredited, laughed at, lost their jobs, they knew what they had seen, they had shifted because of it. It was inarguable they had experienced something profound.  Colman Domingo in Disclosure Day Niko Tavernise—Universal Pictures and Amblin Entertainment #### Did Spielberg change your mind on whether aliens exist? Domingo: I leaned in. There’s one gentleman named John E. Mack who was a clinical psychiatrist and Harvard professor, and really kind of an inspiration for \[my character\] Hugo. He practiced as a psychiatrist and found that the people he studied really had full experiences and emotionally connected to it, and he believed they were telling the truth. Someone who was a bit more of a scientist, he was shunned. But he believed. #### Do you believe, Josh? O’Connor:It’s not that far-reaching that there’s life beyond, for sure. Whether they’re visiting us? Part of me thinks, don’t bother. It’s not that great here. \[_Laughs._\] When you hear accounts of people who have had these experiences, they weren’t traumatic. The traumas come from the way people responded, how they’ve been patronized and gaslit and shunned. I completely believe that they had those encounters. #### In the past year, Barack Obama said he believes in extraterrestrials. Meanwhile, the Pentagon released papers related to UFOs. Why do you think the conversation around aliens is shifting? Blunt:It’s great that it’s converging with this film. It’s hit a critical mass of people who really want to know that truth. For those who are concealing it, they want to know why? A few crumbs of extraterrestrial life have been released, but I think there’s a bakery. **Domingo:** We want full disclosure. #### Speaking of Obama, he visited the set of _Disclosure Day._ Did you speak with him? O’Connor: We were not scheduled to work that day. But we needed to go in. Blunt: Dressed to the nines. O’Connor: I bowed. I promised myself I wouldn’t, but it just happened. Blunt: It was an incredibly low bow. O’Connor: And what did he say to me? Blunt: He said, “Oh, we have the same ears.” O’Connor: I felt very seen for the first time.  Emily Blunt and Josh O'Connor in Disclosure Day Universal Pictures and Amblin Entertainment #### Famously, Spielberg movies feature what’s come to be known as “the Spielberg face.” Are you familiar? Domingo: I didn’t know what that was. We look into the light, right? Blunt: Remember that amazing bit in _Jurassic Park_ where Laura Dern is looking through stuff, and the hand comes down and turns her head, and she looks up \[at the dinosaurs\]? O’Connor: Oh, I love that. #### It’s when he zooms in close on your face during a moment of awe. I think you all had to do it in this movie. Does he give specific direction for that? Domingo: To say, “Come on, give me Spielberg face”? O’Connor: No, mostly the way he and \[cinematographer\] Janusz \[Kaminski\] light a scene, you just sort of fall into it. Spielberg films are all in our subconscious, so I think you know if there’s a big beam of light shooting down, look into it. #### Colman, you worked with Spielberg on _Lincoln,_ which was released in 2012\. How has he changed as a director since then? Domingo: Listen, I think I worked with him for four days on that movie. And he was very warm, but maybe because of what that film needed he was probably in video village more for the big shots. Here, he had his handheld, and he was close to the action most of the time, right there with us. He also had a joy every single day. He would come in excited, so you got excited. Blunt: I’ll never forget seeing him direct the little girl \[played by Delaney Anne Cuthbert\]. The way he was like, “Look up and what do you see? Oh, look at that,” talking her through it. You just realize how gifted he is with children. All the kids in Spielberg movies are always incredible. O’Connor: Because he also still sees as a child sees. He’s still so in touch with his childhood wonder. #### **He’s also known for his blocking. Emily and Josh, you have a scene where you need to jump from a car that’s being pushed into a moving train.** Blunt: I don’t know anyone who can convey more with a camera than Steven. He dreams it up in the moment a lot of the time. But for an action sequence, mainly for safety because he’s like everyone’s dad, that was very carefully shot-listed from when the car rear-ends our car to when the window would blow out to shots of my feet on the brakes. It was all very carefully orchestrated because you have to tell so much geographically to build tension. O’Connor: Like Emily said, he has this parental side. He really wants to make sure you’re safe, and that can be in a stunt situation. But it’s also true of emotional scenes. There’s a vulnerability you have to take on, and Steven understands that. In the same way he works with kids, he’s all about creating an environment that feels safe, that has wonder if it needs wonder, has quiet if it needs quiet. If there’s an intensity, he’ll cry. Blunt: If you’re emotional, he will be emotional. O’Connor: The famous thing is when he calls “Cut!” and says, “That’s in the movie.” But then the other thing I found incredibly moving to witness is that he would call “Cut!” and there would be silence because he’s crying. He’s gathering himself. It’s so moving. 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