With several successful films in the 2000s, Josh Hartnett stepped away from Hollywood due to personal and professional pressure before returning
Despite being successful with films like Pearl Harbor (2001), Checkmate (2006) and 30 Days of Night (2007), Josh Hartnett he even interrupted his acting career for many years before returning Oppenheimer (2023), Trap (2024) and third season of The Bear. In the meantime, he refused the role of Superman twice.
During an interview with The Guardian, Hartnett explained how the departure came about as a result of some episodes with clueless fans. “I don’t want to give it more weight than necessary, but I had some incidents,” he said. “People started showing up at my gate, following me down the street.”
“A guy showed up at the premiere of one of my movies carrying a gun and saying he was my dad. He got arrested. A lot of stuff like that happened back then, it was really weird for me,” the 46-year-old artist recalled.
So he decided to take a step back even when he was offered big roles in Hollywoodas the two contacts to live Superman: “I didn’t want my life to be swallowed up by work, and back then, even more than today, there was this notion that you had to give up everything else [para ter uma carreira de sucesso em Hollywood].”
We’ve all seen what happened to some people who accepted this – they were obliterated. I didn’t want the same thing to happen to me.
Source: Rollingstone
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