The “Teen Heartbeat” tag is hard for actors to get rid of, but Josh Hartnett After several interesting character choices, managed to do this in recent years, including well-received films Oppenheimer. Talk to it typeHartnett details what has changed since his youth.
Hartnett noted that his performance priorities have changed since he was a young man. He explained: “I used to be very interested in the effects of the character and how the character means to me. I wanted to find a specific type of character, when I had a choice when I was a kid. Then, as I got older, I realized that, in fact, I wanted to choose something beyond my understanding. I also didn’t really care what the character is, like I care about the people I worked with. If it’s great, it’s my job to figure out what the character is.”
As an example of his new challenge, Hartnett appeared in Netflix Season 6 Black Mirror As an astronaut, he has the ability to transfer his mind to the replicated corpses on Earth, but has to watch his wife and family be murdered. “We did it for two nights and it was really scary. It was conceivable, because that was the only way I could do it. I’m not an actor. I have to really put myself in a situation. That’s work. Sometimes you have to go where you don’t want to go.”
Unfortunately, Hartnett admits that he found it difficult to get rid of such heavy material after the shooting was over. “I’m not good at getting out of the situation, especially if it’s hard to get in. It takes about the same effort to come out because I can’t just pick it up and put it down,” he said.
Ultimately, Hartnett noted that these recent challenges helped him rediscover his passion for performance. He said:
“I love my job, I want to put it there, I want people to like it. But like me personally, I don’t feel like I was young because I’m not sure. I was 19, 20, 21 years old. So, I’m still trying to figure out who I am. The impact on me was affected by everyone knows and sees me as a character. In that era, it was always something I had to fight with, and I’m still trying to figure out what I mean to myself and the people around me. I don’t think that would happen again at 45 – I wish I had more stuff there.”
