Josh Hartnett on Black Mirror, Oppenheimer and saying no to fame: ‘I was on a different path’
For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Another came plastered with words no aspiring serious actor wants to be associated with: “Free Josh Poster Inside!” “There’s no reliance on ‘the movie star’ like there was in the late 1990s or early 2000s,” he says. Like why not just kiss the brass ring?” open image in gallery Spaceman: Hartnett in the new season of Netflix’s ‘Black Mirror’ Or play a superhero. open image in gallery Vintage duds: Hartnett in Brian De Palma’s 2006 thriller ‘The Black Dahlia’ “The thing about genius filmmakers is that they’re always gonna be around, so I hoped at one point that we’d work together,” Hartnett says. I’m a big believer in things working out when they’re supposed to.” The Oppenheimer set, Hartnett says, was “how filmmaking should be”.
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