Josh Hartnett is opening up about leaving Hollywood.
during an interview protector Published on Sunday trap The actor reflects on why he went from being famous to keeping a low profile over the years. After 18 months off work, Hartnett left Los Angeles, moved back to his hometown, and changed the films he expressed interest in starring in.
Despite having a Hollywood trajectory and achieving huge success with films such as Pearl Harbor and black hawk down Harnett even turned down the role of Superman twice, noting that there was no clear line between “happy Josh and unhappy Josh,” explaining, “The attention paid to me at the time was borderline unhealthy.”
“There were incidents. People showed up at my house. People who were following me,” he said.
When he was 27, he revealed, “A guy showed up at one of my premieres with a gun, claiming to be my father. He ended up in jail. There were a lot of things. It was a weird time. And I didn’t Will become grain in the mill.
After cutting back on heartthrob roles and stepping away from major studio mainstays, Harnett pushed for more challenging, smaller projects: “I just didn’t want my life to be consumed by my work,” he explains. “There was an idea of giving up everything. You saw what happened to some people at the time. They were wiped out by it. I didn’t want that myself.
Harnett explained that he only spends time filming the parts that interest him, and that may not always be the high-profile parts, including movies like Mozart and the Whale (2005), resurrected champion (2007) and black dahlia (2006). “Some of these movies were successful. Some of them were flops. But I always went for something that exceeded what people expected of me,” he said.
He also met with Christopher Nolan about playing Batman, but instead opted for a role in Nolan’s thriller prestige. The roles eventually went to Christian Bale.
“I realized I had missed an opportunity to work with someone like Chris,” Harnett said. “I’ve found that as much as you worry about orienting your career around things that interest you, I don’t think that’s the most important thing anymore. It’s about finding people you really trust.
Starring M. Night Shyamalan’s works trapwhat has Harnett experienced recently? guardian Starred in Guy Ritchie’s film, known as the “Joshua Renaissance” Operation Fortune: Tricks of Waran episode of black mirror And got the second opportunity to work with Nolan on an Oscar-winning film Oppenheimer.
Hartnett, 46, said it seemed like “the rest of the industry” was “catching up with what I’d always wanted to do.” But also pointed out, “Maybe it’s also because of my age. I can give you a million examples of actors who become more interesting as they get older. You can’t be an innocent person forever, can you?”
