Josh Hartnett‘s diving into scary moments in his previous … revealing he left Hollywood as a result of he was being stalked — together with by a person he says as soon as arrived at his location with a gun.
The actor spoke with The Guardian by way of Zoom from his property in Hampshire, England … a sprawling countryside the place he lives together with his spouse partly as a result of residing in L.A. began to really feel too harmful.
JH says it isn’t the one purpose he left L.A. about 20 years in the past … however, it did not assist that folks began exhibiting up at his home.
Hartnett says these had been straight-up stalking incidents … including {that a} man as soon as “showed up at one of my premieres with a gun, claiming to be my father. He ended up in prison.”
Mainly, Hartnett anxious he’d get crushed by fame … and determined to vary his life earlier than Hollywood might finish it.
Clearly Hartnett nonetheless makes films … together with M. Night time Shyamalan’s “Trap” — a psychological horror-thriller popping out this week the place he performs a serial killer who has to flee a stadium-wide police operation, an ideal position for getting within the thoughts of his personal stalkers.
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Hartnett says his profession trajectory’s simply positive with him FWIW … including he spends a ton of time together with his youngsters he in any other case in all probability would not have.
That mentioned, it appears his profession might’ve gone method in another way … however, H’wooden itself made the person really feel trapped.