In 2001, 22-year-old Josh Hartnett was considered the next Leonardo DiCaprio or Matt Damon. Thanks to his outstanding performances in Pearl Harbor and Black Hawk Down, he made it to the A-list cast, appearing on the covers of numerous magazines.
However, in 2006, he declined the invitation to "Superman" and slowly faded from the public eye. He has only made occasional appearances in small movies for the past decade. It turned out that he had been carefully raising his two children. Now that the child is older, the 41-year-old is ready to return, and he will play the lead role in the upcoming "Escort".
As a father, he does not want to bring home the dark role he has played, which is very bad for bringing children, of course, this is not his own story, he has to do his best to play the role of father first.
2020 will be the year of Hartnett's return, he has read many scripts, and he really enjoys reading them, especially the rare and wonderful scripts. When he discovers stories written from a fresh perspective, he gets excited, and the more he reads, the more excited he gets.
He reads two scripts a week, which doesn't seem like a big number, but it's also very good, and someone helps him read it so as not to miss a good story. He is now in London filming the TV series Paradise Lost.
For the current film industry, he believes that there are many products, but few audiences. It's too hard to organize the right people together to make a small movie, and when it's made, the audience doesn't necessarily pay for it.
For Hartnett, the movie is mainly about whether anyone wants to see it, and if it's just that people see the film online after 10 years, or happen to see it in their dormitory 5 years later, that's not the original intention of the movie. Ideally, people walk into a movie theater and then share the movie-going experience with different people.
When Pearl Harbor was popular, Hartnett felt that he had suddenly lost his life, that he was no longer himself, and that he was now quiet, and that he felt his presence. When he was young, he wanted to know who he was and what kind of life he wanted. Now he was relieved, and if he needed to get back in the spotlight, he was willing.
He wants to be a creative actor, not to expose everything to the media, he's trying different directions, he wants him to be an actor who can play multiple roles.
Hartnett likes to be part of a movie, play interesting roles, and he's written a script himself, and he's directed some of the music videos, but he doesn't deliberately become a film director unless the story gets him passionate.
In the past three years, Hartnett has written 3 screenplays. After having children, he has more time to stay at home, and when the children go to bed, he starts thinking and starting to write.
Hartnett lives with his girlfriend, Tamsin Egerton, who has been in a good relationship while not married. They have two daughters. His girlfriend, Tamsin Igerton, is a very good looking actress and model who protects their two children very well.
Such a caring father, such a responsible boyfriend, Harnett faded out of people's vision when he was popular, and chose the family in front of career and family.