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Challengers-goers are leaving theaters with an affliction: being unable to talk about anything else butChallengers.
Not aboutChallengers, but about the 2007 animated Pixar film (and TikTok musical)Ratatouille.
And yet, OConnor has gone to great pains to praise the film while promotingChallengers.
But OConnors love forRatatouilleis not a bit.
Hes been singing its praises since at least 2021 and was being suggested for the role even earlier.
Below, every time Josh OConnor has publicly brought upRatatouille whether he was asked or not.
The comment received over 3,600 likes one of which, Im assuming, is from OConnor.
if he gets emotional during movies.
I cant even tell you because Im gonna cry.
In the span of 30 days, he publicly praisesRatatouillethree times, the first withVogue.
It becomes clear whyRatatouilleis about to come up so frequently in this press tour.
This same day, theChallengerscastsinterview withTotal Filmhit newsstands.
In it, they describe the summer camp feeling of training together.
This meant working out in the day and relaxing at night, including movie nights (plural) watchingRatatouille.
Some light-heartedness to balance some of the talk and the energy of these characters, Zendaya told the outlet.
August 22, 2023:Yet again,OConnor tellsVManthat he, Zendaya, and Faist watchedRatatouilletogether during filming.
It comes up while talking about his apartment.
I had the biggest contrast last year.
Ina video for Letterboxd, the actor shares his four favorite films.
Just after 1961 Italian dramaAccattonecomes the 2007 childrens comedyRatatouille.
I dont need to say anything aboutRatatouille, he says.
Its always nice to just watchRatatouille, you know what I mean?
Thats the message for everyone, OConnor adds.
In a video recently shared on its Instagram from the April 10ChallengersU.K.
premiere, Letterboxd asks OConnor for the last four films hes seen.
Dune 2, which I loved, and I watchedFemme, which I really liked.
Actually, I watchedSoul, the Pixar movie, which I loved, he says, getting warmer.
And also, I think I probably did watchRatatouilleagain.
Like 100 times, he says as he starts to turn away from the conversation.
Hes got places to be and, more importantly,Ratatouilleto watch.
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