“I just asked her if she could make this dress,” LaTorre continued.

“Well, of course, she said yes.

So, I drew up the idea, and it took two weeks I think.

Kali Reis, Meghann Fahy, Lily LaTorre, Max Walker-Silverman and Josh O’Connor attend the “Rebuilding” Premiere during the 2025 Sundance Film Festival at Eccles Center Theatre on January 26, 2025 in Park City, Utah

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We made the dress, we sewed it all together.

It was quite fun.”

The frothy white dress featured a large skirt made of mounds of tulle.

Josh O’Connor and Lily LaTorre appear in Rebuilding by Max Walker-Silverman, an official selection of the 2025 Sundance Film Festival

Josh O’Connor and Lily LaTorre in ‘Rebuilding’.Jesse Hope/Courtesy of Sundance Institute

“Ultimately the story was catalyzed a few years ago,” he said.

“My grandmother’s house burned in a fire.

It was a devastating loss of things physical and then emotional that those things held.”

“I was very scared to see it,” he continued.

“I put it off for a very long time.

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O’Connor, an Emmy winner forThe Crown,connected with Walker-Silverman’s sense of existing in the present.

“It’s rare.

Max speaks so beautifully and from the heart.

I was just really excited to go and hang out in a land that he knows.”

Rebuildingdoes not yet have a distributor or a release date.