Josh Hartnett is largely oblivious to the popularity of his own projects.
Josh Hartnett lives “outside” of the Hollywood “system”.
The 48-year-old actor stars alongside Anne Hathaway and Dakota Johnson in Verity, the new psychological thriller film directed by Michael Showalter, while he also stars in Below, the thriller miniseries created by Jesse McKeown – but Josh is largely oblivious to the hype surrounding his work because he lives a quiet life in England.
Josh – who has four children with his wife, actress Tamsin Egerton – told Variety: “It is wild. At the same time, because I live so far outside of the system, maybe a little bit less wild for me when I have to get up in the morning and do a school run.
“I’ve got my kids complaining about a million things over the course of the weekend that I have to take care of, and there aren’t any posters around me. It’s not like I see the event happening.
“I get more questions from the teachers and parents on the school run than I usually do about my work. But all of the conversations with people back in L.A. who are in the thick of it, and talking to Jesse, talking to Jessica, getting this sense of like how people are responding, not just in terms of numbers, but in terms of conversations they’re having … it seems like people really get the show, and that’s incredibly gratifying, because everybody who was involved worked really hard on it.”
Josh loves that Verity – which is based on Colleen Hoover’s 2018 novel of the same name – has caught the imagination of the public.
The actor said: “As far as Verity goes, I was still doing press the week after that. So I was in New York, able to see that come out and subsequently become successful over the course of that week.
“It’s always a surprise to me, but a very pleasant surprise, when something that you’ve worked on becomes a part of the conversation and the culture. I love that.”
Hollywood star Josh Hartnett: I live outside of the system
