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WTF Happened to JOSH HARTNETT?

posted 3 years ago by TMC-4 (20149)
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Josh Hartnett was the biggest heartthrob of the late nineties. Bursting onto the scene in Robert Rodriguez's The Faculty, his status was reaffirmed by Halloween H20 and Sofia Coppola's The Virgin Suicides. However, his career hit its stride in the early 2000s when he became a leading man in movies like Michael Bay's Pearl Harbor, Ridley Scott's Black Hawk Down and more. Yet, towards the middle of the decade, his career started to cool after a string of flops. He disappeared from the scene for a few years, only to return in the cult series Penny Dreadful. Recently, he's seemed on the cusp of a significant comeback following a scene-stealing turn in Guy Ritchie's Wrath of Man, with him set to star in the follow-up, Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre, while he's also in Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer. Join us in this episode of WTF Happened to this Celebrity as we dig into his surprisingly epic career.

[–] HarlemEagle42 (17745) 3 years ago

Heard he turned down both the roles of Superman and Batman. Not sure if he'd be a good fit for Clark Kent but I could buy him as Bruce Wayne.

[–] looper007 (1158) 3 years ago

He hated Hollywood and limelight he was getting and how they were trying to typecast him as the pretty boy actor. I don't think he liked the backstabbing and shitty behaviour he was seen either. He seems like he's a guy who likes the quiet life. He just picked up and went back home for a few years, I read that he started to hang out again with his hometown buddies and dated his high school sweetheart for a while.

He just got back into doing the films he wanted to do (mostly indie fare) and gradually started to rebuild up his career with Penny Dreadful and Guy Ritchie has used him quite a bit in his films and is in the new Christopher Nolan film (he was touted to be Batman for Nolan and to appear in the Prestige).

I think he's just happy to be a character supporting actor rather then been the leading man.