Posted on 05/01/2014 7:04:02 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Josh Hartnett is 35 now and mostly acts in indie films, but he was a hot commodity back in the early 2000s, and almost every big picture wanted him in the lead.
"Spider-Man was something we talked about. Batman was another one. But I somehow knew those roles had potential to define me, and I didn't want that," he told Details magazine of passing on the iconic characters.
He also passed on 2006's "Superman Returns."
"I didn't want to be labeled as Superman for the rest of my career. I was maybe 22, but I saw the danger."
Hartnett admits that he and his agents even parted ways after passing on such projects.
"I didn't have those agents for much longer after that,” he said. “There was a lot of infighting between my manager and agents, trying to figure out who to put the blame on. It got to the point where none of us were able to work together.”
Indeed, Hartnett got so sick of fame in his 20s that he moved back to his home in Minnesota.
"I was on the cover of every magazine. I couldn't really go anywhere. I didn't feel comfortable in my own skin. I was alone," he said. "I didn't trust anyone. So I went back to Minnesota and got back together with my old friends — ended up getting back together with my high-school girlfriend for a while — and I didn't do any filming for 18 months. I'm still finding my way through all that."
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LOLOL!! {^)
Sue me. I'm one of those wierdos who loves L.A., in many ways one of the coolest cities on the planet. Hollywood Homicide's humor is totally L.A. "The kid," as I think of Hartnett, was perfectly cast, even more reading this about him. He basically played himself! Handsome, naïve, debonair, sexy, and "deep"!! {^)
"Stella! STELLA!"
It was a hoot!
I thought it was because he can’t act ....
Superman Returns pretty much flopped and the lead, Brandon Roush has not had a career since then. And if they were trying to get him to be in “batman and Robin” passing that up was a great idea. Again, another flop that killed careers.
“Thirty Days of Night”.....to this day, that is the single most frightening vampire movie I have EVER seen.
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