Josh Hartnett Knows We’re in a Josh Hartnett Renaissance, and He’s OK With It

The Parting Shot with H. Alan Scott

M. Night Shyamalan is probably the only person who looked at Josh Hartnett and thought he’d make a great serial killer, but Hartnett is glad he did. “This is going to surprise people. It’s a little bit different than other films that he’s made.” In Trap, Hartnett plays Cooper, a killer inadvertently lured to a concert with his teenage daughter as a trap set up by authorities to catch him. While that may seem like it’s giving too much of the plot away, Hartnett says viewers will see there’s so much more going on. “It’s all about your hope that people will be taken on the journey, and you don’t want to ruin it for them.” Fresh off appearing in last year’s Best Picture Oscar-winning film Oppenheimer, there’s been renewed interest in his past work. “It’s nice to hear that people are responding to films I did earlier in my career because I think a lot of them were really cool.” Hartnett skyrocketed to fame at 20 with hits like The Faculty and The Virgin Suicides. “I didn’t think I was going to be successful. And then when the movies became successful, it was almost confusing.”

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