Josh Hartnett was one of my favourite heartthrobs in the 2000's, and I love that he's still steadily working away. He's really brilliant in "Penny Dreadful."
That show completely changed my opinion of "Hotnett". It's not like I had anything against him beforehand, but thought he was a flash in the pan beefcake.
It’s the Joshaissance and I’m here for it! IMO he could’ve been as big as DiCaprio if he stayed in the system but chose his own path instead, he’s obviously happier doing what he’s been doing so good for him
He was outstanding in Penny Dreadful. I'm glad to see him on screen again. He seems like a very down to Earth guy. Also, his jawline is impeccable. I had no idea he was stalked numerous times until an article mentioned it the other day resulting in his absence.
Paparazzi parked in his front yard. Sometimes he had to get into the trunk of a car to go somewhere. Fangirls chased him down the street and yes, he was stalked. No wonder he slipped under the radar and out of the Hollywood limelight!
Always liked him, seems like the opposite of the typical Hollywood types, just does his thing. Very talented and likable actor who makes some interesting choices.
I like how Josh Hartnett’s having a renaissance now. After doing some pretty big movies, he took a step back from major film roles and is now getting back into the limelight again. I know he regrets not actually pursuing to play Bruce Wayne/Batman in Batman Begins due to being more interested in The Prestige at that point and thus losing out on a partnership with Christopher Nolan since Christian Bale was cast as Batman and was then in The Prestige once Nolan decided to make that his next project after Batman Begins, but it’s great he got to work with him on Oppenheimer. He did a great job in that and I’m very curious to see what he’ll do next. Great video Brandon, keep up the great work and take care!
I wish that damn rumor would STOP going around! Nolan and he had a phone conversation about Batman. That’s it. Nolan says he understood that Hartnett felt he didn’t want to be a superhero tied to three films in 10 years. Or a war hero. He did not want to be typecast. The Superman role was offered to him and he turned it down for the same reason. THREE times.
If you didn't see him in "Black Dahlia" or "30 Days of Night", you're missing out, and "Penny Dreadful" is just incredible from the entire cast. "Lucky Number Slevin" and "The Faculty" are also really not talked about a lot, both incredible.
Nothing “happened” to Josh. He gracefully bowed out when the Hollywood machine tried to make him THAT guy, years ago. He would’ve been Superman, some version of Batman, and everything in between. He values his life, family, and chooses his roles carefully. Much respect to this talented, levelheaded, beeeeautiful man.
@@basedarsonist The Hollywood Heartthrob of the Year Guy. He had paparazzi camped at his house, fan girls chasing him down the street; he had to hide in the trunk of a car to go places and even had a guy pull a gun on him at a premiere. As he’s said for years, some actors can deal with all that and work through it but he decided to walk another path. I say good on him.
We're the same age, Narrator, and I actually was aware of Hartnett in the 1990s ... but I didn't care one way or another about him or his work. I saw "The Virgin Suicides" but none of his other movies. He was just another teen heartthrob to me. Then I saw him in "Penny Dreadful" in 2014, and that performance changed my entire opinion about him. He held his own against Eva Green (one of my absolute favorites) and Timothy freaking Dalton, as well as all the other members of the very solid cast. It wasn't an accident; the dude can act. Now I enjoy his past performances when they come across my screen, and am excited to see what he does in the future!
Bunraku is a BRILLIANT film! Woody Harrelson, Josh, Ron Perlman, Kevin McKidd, Demi Moore and a Japanese pop star were excited to be asked by the auteur director to be in it. They had a ball! “What’s it about?” “Well, it’s a Sergio Leone spaghetti Western, a Kurosawa samurai quest, a Broadway musical wrapped in German Expressionism origami and pop-up books. And it’s a comedy.” 😂
His scene in The Bear is so anxiety inducing for the first two minutes because he can't spit out what he wants to say. You think its going to be awful the more he tip toes around it, but when he finally breaks and is iust the sweetest dude, I let out an audible "Awww". Also I get what hes saying about 40 Days & 40 Nights. It's an absurd concept that has some funny moments. Him and Shannyn Sossamon have great chemistry...but I'd be lying if I didn't say the ending isn't completely botched. It's really icky.
That is such a f*cked up movie by today's standards. Even at the time it was kind of cringe. 40 days of no sex? (Or complete abstinence from everything - I can't remember and I don't care enough to look it up.) Who makes a movie based on how 'hard' that is? Like, what?
Check his filmography. There are some great performances in his indies there! We especially like the bonkers film Bunraku with Woody Harrelson. You haven’t seen the series Penny Dreadful?! Gold! Recently we got Inherit the Viper (2019) and Ida Red (2021). Last year was such a bumper crop of Hartnett! Besides Oppenheimer and Black Mirror (his episode with Aaron Paul won an award), he also starred in Guy Ritchie’s Operation Fortune and the UK series The Fear Index. My hubby and I have been huge fans for 20 years!
I thought he was gone around 2005. But no, he just stopped appearing in these massive films which seem to drive half the lead actors in them insane anyway.
O, the modern day high school version of Othello, is an unsung movie that doesn't get discussed enough. It came out when there was a bunch of those modern takes on Shakespeare, but it was one of the better ones and really well thought out. Hartnett is a really good Iago.
When I saw the trailer for Trap (on the big screen!) I was bewildered by not knowing who Hartnett was despite him having such a magnetic presence. So thank you for this refresher.
No comeback. The guy’s been acting for 20+ years. He liked to fly under the radar, picking only roles he thought would challenge him. Some of his indie performances are terrific!
That's right, Josh Harnett in the late 90s, early 2000s was like the new Leo Di Caprio, the new Brad Pitt of those times and it seemed that he was going to become the new Hollywood star, with massive hits like Pearl Harbor and Black Hawk Down, they gave him so much visibility that we thought he was going to stardom and no, after those movies, he was overwhelmed by so much exposure, he felt not ready to be a star and decided to lower his profile, not taking on popular projects and going more on the independent side and simply disappeared from the popular radar for many years.
He also had paparazzi camped on his doorstep and fangirls chasing him down the street. He said he knew that was not the life he wanted to have. He even had to ride in the trunk of a car sometimes to escape the paps. Wow.
I completely forgot about him until this video... Then I remembered I had a friend in middle school who wouldn't stop talking about him because that was her actor crush. I only knew him from J-14 magazine covers lbs 😅😅😅
I randomly watched pearl harbor some 5 6 days ago cause a clip of it came on my insta feed and i like the clip so i was like lets give this movie a watch, and man oh man, it the the first movie i watched of josh hartnett and i fell in love with him and mind you today is 11 sep 2024 so basically i discovered him in sep 2024( saw him in oppenheimer last year but didnt know who he was and didnt try to search further upon him), anyways i liked him sm in peearl harbour i downloaded all his famous movies from the early 2000's and late 90's and now I've watched 4 to 5 of his movies and going to watch more, I absolutely love him and ik I'm some 20 years late to crushing on him and he has a wife and 4 kids, but it just makes sense why he was a heartthrob in the 2000's and he is still loved sm today due to his charisma, it was kinda a shame he got fed up of hollywood and the whole system and took so many years off but he's back now and the movie trap,oh my god just watched it 2 days ago and i've watched a psychological thriller this good after such a long time, i think trap is going to be his comeback and now he's going to do so much more good movies consistently hopefully
The Coppola anecdote is this. Josh turned 20 during filming. She gave him a birthday cake (?) and said, “Here, you’re not a teenage heartthrob anymore.” 😅
Brandon.. Your talent is vast... Thank you for making great work for nearly decades!.. I thank you so much for the great videos, I've been watching since the beginning. 🙏
missed your content. glad your still up and running & hopefully doing well. Josh has always been an underrated actor, which all makes sense with his first audition and early films, he was always playing the "hot" nonchalant high school character. After Sin City, he vanished, so it's nice to see him find a passion for the art again and is getting more attention.
He did not vanish! Grrrrr. He’s into independent films and has made at least one a year for 20 years! He’s got a great reputation (ask Nolan and Guy Ritchie) and picks the roles that interest him. He’s a multimillionaire living his best life with his wife and 4 kids in England.
'I Come with the Rain' is insanely underrated josh hartnett movie, 00s cyberpunk vietnamese/american hard boiled neo-noir with Elias Koteas as a very memorable serial killer role
Saying he did not turn down Batman Begins is misleading. This was mid 2003, he was the most famous and popular young "serious" actor in the world, and this was the same studio that offered him the potentially largest contract ever for Superman during that same year. If Josh Hartnett had been interested in the role, it was 100% his. That he told Nolan he was not interested in it is, in a practical (if not legal) sense, turning it down.
He’s been doing one or two independent films every year, just not major studio ones. It’s what he left Hollywood to do. He’s got a great reputation with directors and he’s a multimillionaire living the good life.😊
Bunraku IS a great movie! Bonkers, and funny as hell. Hartnett, Harrelson and McKidd are freaking brilliant in it. You can rent it on TH-cam, see for yourself!
He was cast in The Faculty first, which started shooting first. Then he was cast in Halloween: H20, went back and forth on both while shooting, and Halloween was released first.
@@TheBackFocus You are right. In an out take, the director in H2O yelled at him for not knowing his lines, accusing him of playing around instead of learning them. “ Man, I only got 2 hours of sleep last night,” he whined. And Jamie consoled him. He was so cute! 😊
Interesting career, he would have made a great Batman or Superman, he was much younger than most people realized when he first blew up, the rare star in his true early 20s actually playing characters his own age or a bit older. He was a good 6-7 years younger than Affleck and Beckinsale in Pearl Harbor but has to play their same age. Will be interesting to see where his career goes.
He always reminded me of Tommy Lee Jones as if he could be his son or a younger version. I never got my wish of them playing relatives to my knowledge.
I dont know if you have or not, but could you do a run down of The Faculty? It has but hasnt reached "cult classic" just yet... I remember watching the tv promos and reading about it in the teen rag mags 😅.
Years ago, I heard that he wouldn't wax his unibrow anymore because he found it to be too painful. He'd even put it in his contract, and it prevented him from getting roles. No idea if there's even a sliver of truth to that, but that was a rumor which was spread around.
Among all those other rumors that have swirled around him for 2 decades 😂 In an interview not too long ago he said some of the stories about him are “pretty silly” and he just won’t talk about them anymore.
He had a similar career path to Heath Ledger but disappeared before, becoming the next Matt Damon or Ben Affleck. Wicker Park is another good movie of Josh Harnetts from the mid-2000s
I love it when Hartnett shows up. He's basically an established character actor in his own right. That being said, Trap looks terrible. I could be wrong and the doubt is compelling me to go see what I'm convinced will either be gold or garbage
Trap is totally different from other M Knight movies. It’s a suspenseful cat and mouse thriller with outrageous improbabilities and a preposterous concept. Don’t let the negative reviews put you off. This film is off the wall and Hartnett is GOLD. 😊
Trap is fiction! 😂 There’s no blood, guts, slashing from Cooper the serial killer. It’s a look into the mind of a psycho masking around as the doting daddy. The concept is preposterous, the improbabilities hilarious. M Knight told us this movie was not like his usual twisties. This is a suspenseful cat and mouse thriller with a parody undertone. Just suspend your disbelief and go with the flow! Hubs and I watched it twice it was that entertaining.
He did not disappear! He didn’t like the persona Hollywood was creating for him so as soon as his studio contract expired he went back to independent films. I was always impressed by that self-awareness at only 24 years old. Hubs and I have been following his career for 20 years! Some of his indie performances are phenomenal.
@mgariepy42 mate you just rephrased what I exactly said. Obviously, he didn't enjoy being a mainstream actor. Even Health Ledger wasn't the limelight type either.
@@TheBackFocus I guess any time someone makes a video anthology of an actor’s performances you have to say No Spoilers. Like we’re dunces or something.🤦♀️
I hear you. We’re going to be more careful with spoilers going forward. We initially didn’t think it was a big deal to spoil Pearl Harbor, but I think we’ve been underestimating what you guys don’t want spoiled. Peace and love
Why would you think a video like this would focus on Josh’s great performances and not show why? why does the guy have to put No Spoilers on a video that says the actor is Hollywood’s best-kept secret? 🤔
@@TheBackFocus It might seem silly but watching a film appreciation channel that degrades my ability to sit down and enjoy films just doesn't make sense to me. Take care.
@@oscarwright179 sometimes I read the plot in Wikipedia and while watching the film I am not bothered with the fact that I know how it's gonna twist, develop and end. Furthermore if a film is great, or at least good and appealing to me, I'll return to it despite my first "spoilery" watching. That applies to Kurosawa's "7 Samurai", Peckinpah's "The Wild Bunch" or Lean's 'Lawrence of Arabia". I'll even rewatch "The Usual Suspects" and Jeremy Brett's 1980s-1990s Granada TV "Sherlock Holmes". Hell I already did half a dozen times during the last 40 years!
@@oscarwright179 Whaaaat? Having to put Spoiler Free on videos that focus on performances is just nuts. He says Best Kept Secret and that didn’t give you a clue he was going to talk about why? 🤦♀️
He was never gone. And what 3 movies are you talking about? Some films he’s made aren’t particularly good but his performances are 👌 His last 3? Oppenheimer, Ida Red, Inherit the Viper are all 5*
I remember him from "the faculty " when i was lik 10. Of course i remember him ..his name was zeek and he sold drugs. The drugs (cocaine) was the only thing that could kill the parasite.
I love that he did 40 days and 40 nights and then he did the prequel. 30 days of night.
😂
Thats so good
😂
Josh Hartnett was one of my favourite heartthrobs in the 2000's, and I love that he's still steadily working away. He's really brilliant in "Penny Dreadful."
He’s the only reason I watched. Came for Josh, stayed bc it legit was a great show.
Excuse me, Eva Green?
That whole cast is BRILLIANT. And I do not know how Eva Green didn’t win an award for Vanessa. Not even a nomination!
Penny Dreadful appreciation society up in this post. Loved the show, I want to rewatch it now.
That show completely changed my opinion of "Hotnett". It's not like I had anything against him beforehand, but thought he was a flash in the pan beefcake.
It’s the Joshaissance and I’m here for it! IMO he could’ve been as big as DiCaprio if he stayed in the system but chose his own path instead, he’s obviously happier doing what he’s been doing so good for him
He was outstanding in Penny Dreadful. I'm glad to see him on screen again. He seems like a very down to Earth guy. Also, his jawline is impeccable. I had no idea he was stalked numerous times until an article mentioned it the other day resulting in his absence.
Paparazzi parked in his front yard. Sometimes he had to get into the trunk of a car to go somewhere. Fangirls chased him down the street and yes, he was stalked. No wonder he slipped under the radar and out of the Hollywood limelight!
@mgariepy42 Wow, that's insane.
Always liked him, seems like the opposite of the typical Hollywood types, just does his thing. Very talented and likable actor who makes some interesting choices.
That’s almost exactly what Nolan said about casting him for Oppie 😊
Dude, the last 30 seconds of this video makes me so happy to have grown up in the 90s. Not only was Robin Williams still alive, so was Don LaFontaine!
I like how Josh Hartnett’s having a renaissance now. After doing some pretty big movies, he took a step back from major film roles and is now getting back into the limelight again. I know he regrets not actually pursuing to play Bruce Wayne/Batman in Batman Begins due to being more interested in The Prestige at that point and thus losing out on a partnership with Christopher Nolan since Christian Bale was cast as Batman and was then in The Prestige once Nolan decided to make that his next project after Batman Begins, but it’s great he got to work with him on Oppenheimer. He did a great job in that and I’m very curious to see what he’ll do next. Great video Brandon, keep up the great work and take care!
I wish that damn rumor would STOP going around! Nolan and he had a phone conversation about Batman. That’s it. Nolan says he understood that Hartnett felt he didn’t want to be a superhero tied to three films in 10 years. Or a war hero. He did not want to be typecast. The Superman role was offered to him and he turned it down for the same reason. THREE times.
If you didn't see him in "Black Dahlia" or "30 Days of Night", you're missing out, and "Penny Dreadful" is just incredible from the entire cast. "Lucky Number Slevin" and "The Faculty" are also really not talked about a lot, both incredible.
Not talked about now but they were very popular at the time. And Penny Dreadful had/has a rabid fan base 😊
I love penny dreadful
I love PD
Nothing “happened” to Josh. He gracefully bowed out when the Hollywood machine tried to make him THAT guy, years ago. He would’ve been Superman, some version of Batman, and everything in between. He values his life, family, and chooses his roles carefully.
Much respect to this talented, levelheaded, beeeeautiful man.
You nailed it. Some of the many indie roles he’s chosen show his immense versatility. August, Bunraku, and Ida Red are three of my favorites.
What's wrong with being THAT guy? Any examples of other actors who've become THAT guy?
@@basedarsonistLeonardo DiCaprio.
@@basedarsonist The Hollywood Heartthrob of the Year Guy. He had paparazzi camped at his house, fan girls chasing him down the street; he had to hide in the trunk of a car to go places and even had a guy pull a gun on him at a premiere. As he’s said for years, some actors can deal with all that and work through it but he decided to walk another path. I say good on him.
We're the same age, Narrator, and I actually was aware of Hartnett in the 1990s ... but I didn't care one way or another about him or his work. I saw "The Virgin Suicides" but none of his other movies. He was just another teen heartthrob to me.
Then I saw him in "Penny Dreadful" in 2014, and that performance changed my entire opinion about him.
He held his own against Eva Green (one of my absolute favorites) and Timothy freaking Dalton, as well as all the other members of the very solid cast. It wasn't an accident; the dude can act.
Now I enjoy his past performances when they come across my screen, and am excited to see what he does in the future!
I love Josh. He is one of my Favorite Actors Ever! 💯
Bunraku is a BRILLIANT film! Woody Harrelson, Josh, Ron Perlman, Kevin McKidd, Demi Moore and a Japanese pop star were excited to be asked by the auteur director to be in it. They had a ball! “What’s it about?” “Well, it’s a Sergio Leone spaghetti Western, a Kurosawa samurai quest, a Broadway musical wrapped in German Expressionism origami and pop-up books. And it’s a comedy.” 😂
His scene in The Bear is so anxiety inducing for the first two minutes because he can't spit out what he wants to say. You think its going to be awful the more he tip toes around it, but when he finally breaks and is iust the sweetest dude, I let out an audible "Awww".
Also I get what hes saying about 40 Days & 40 Nights. It's an absurd concept that has some funny moments. Him and Shannyn Sossamon have great chemistry...but I'd be lying if I didn't say the ending isn't completely botched. It's really icky.
That is such a f*cked up movie by today's standards. Even at the time it was kind of cringe. 40 days of no sex? (Or complete abstinence from everything - I can't remember and I don't care enough to look it up.) Who makes a movie based on how 'hard' that is? Like, what?
@squamish4244 Its what he was giving up for Lent.
@@squamish4244At the time it was a hit among the Twenty-Somethings. I thought it was really sweet and funny because I was that age, too 😊
Moved to UK, best decision he ever made!!
I loved Lucky Number Slevin!
One of my all-time favorite movies. 🤩
Damn I don't know why I thought he legitimately retired in like 2010, he's been everywhere! "Oh Lucy" is definitely one I'm going to seek out
Check his filmography. There are some great performances in his indies there! We especially like the bonkers film Bunraku with Woody Harrelson. You haven’t seen the series Penny Dreadful?! Gold! Recently we got Inherit the Viper (2019) and Ida Red (2021). Last year was such a bumper crop of Hartnett! Besides Oppenheimer and Black Mirror (his episode with Aaron Paul won an award), he also starred in Guy Ritchie’s Operation Fortune and the UK series The Fear Index. My hubby and I have been huge fans for 20 years!
I thought he was gone around 2005. But no, he just stopped appearing in these massive films which seem to drive half the lead actors in them insane anyway.
O, the modern day high school version of Othello, is an unsung movie that doesn't get discussed enough. It came out when there was a bunch of those modern takes on Shakespeare, but it was one of the better ones and really well thought out. Hartnett is a really good Iago.
His performance knocked me out. That’s when I knew this good looking kid had major acting chops.
Beautiful tribute video
When I saw the trailer for Trap (on the big screen!) I was bewildered by not knowing who Hartnett was despite him having such a magnetic presence. So thank you for this refresher.
Great video, fellow appreciator of Hartnett here as well, has always had great presence and makes terrific, interesting choices.
That’s what Nolan said. “We were really excited to get Josh. He’s made such interesting choices, always stretching himself.”😊
Love your video! And have loved Hartnett’s work for 20 years, especially some of his indie work. I love he’s Minnesota Nice in real life, too 😊
Josh Hartnett in Wicker Park was amazing. It was (still is) one of my favorite movies. I don't know why people don't talk about it more ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Mine, too! It’s such a sweet sappy romance it takes me back to my 20s ☺️ All 4 performances are just terrific.
Yeah, The Faculty came out way before 30 Days. He almost stole the show.
He DID steal the show 😊
I LOVED 30 days of night and bunraku growing up. Im so glad to see him getting his comeback.
No comeback. The guy’s been acting for 20+ years. He liked to fly under the radar, picking only roles he thought would challenge him. Some of his indie performances are terrific!
That's right, Josh Harnett in the late 90s, early 2000s was like the new Leo Di Caprio, the new Brad Pitt of those times and it seemed that he was going to become the new Hollywood star, with massive hits like Pearl Harbor and Black Hawk Down, they gave him so much visibility that we thought he was going to stardom and no, after those movies, he was overwhelmed by so much exposure, he felt not ready to be a star and decided to lower his profile, not taking on popular projects and going more on the independent side and simply disappeared from the popular radar for many years.
He also had paparazzi camped on his doorstep and fangirls chasing him down the street. He said he knew that was not the life he wanted to have. He even had to ride in the trunk of a car sometimes to escape the paps. Wow.
A Josh Hartnett + Colin Farrell collaboration onscreen would be a dream
Yes!😊
I completely forgot about him until this video... Then I remembered I had a friend in middle school who wouldn't stop talking about him because that was her actor crush. I only knew him from J-14 magazine covers lbs 😅😅😅
I randomly watched pearl harbor some 5 6 days ago cause a clip of it came on my insta feed and i like the clip so i was like lets give this movie a watch, and man oh man, it the the first movie i watched of josh hartnett and i fell in love with him and mind you today is 11 sep 2024 so basically i discovered him in sep 2024( saw him in oppenheimer last year but didnt know who he was and didnt try to search further upon him), anyways i liked him sm in peearl harbour i downloaded all his famous movies from the early 2000's and late 90's and now I've watched 4 to 5 of his movies and going to watch more, I absolutely love him and ik I'm some 20 years late to crushing on him and he has a wife and 4 kids, but it just makes sense why he was a heartthrob in the 2000's and he is still loved sm today due to his charisma, it was kinda a shame he got fed up of hollywood and the whole system and took so many years off but he's back now and the movie trap,oh my god just watched it 2 days ago and i've watched a psychological thriller this good after such a long time, i think trap is going to be his comeback and now he's going to do so much more good movies consistently hopefully
He was really good in The Faculty (1998) a very underrated movie 💪💪💪💪
It was a hit when it came out!
The Coppola anecdote is this. Josh turned 20 during filming. She gave him a birthday cake (?) and said, “Here, you’re not a teenage heartthrob anymore.” 😅
Brandon.. Your talent is vast... Thank you for making great work for nearly decades!.. I thank you so much for the great videos, I've been watching since the beginning. 🙏
“Hollywood Homicide” is one of my favorite buddy cop/ comedies ever lol.
My favorite movie will always be the faculty. Absolutely love this film and all the actors.
He was great in Black Hawk Down as well
missed your content. glad your still up and running & hopefully doing well. Josh has always been an underrated actor, which all makes sense with his first audition and early films, he was always playing the "hot" nonchalant high school character. After Sin City, he vanished, so it's nice to see him find a passion for the art again and is getting more attention.
He did not vanish! Grrrrr. He’s into independent films and has made at least one a year for 20 years! He’s got a great reputation (ask Nolan and Guy Ritchie) and picks the roles that interest him. He’s a multimillionaire living his best life with his wife and 4 kids in England.
He was also in the Guy Ritchie movie Operation Fortune (2023)
'I Come with the Rain' is insanely underrated josh hartnett movie, 00s cyberpunk vietnamese/american hard boiled neo-noir with Elias Koteas as a very memorable serial killer role
We’ve watched it twice. I loved everything about it but the horrendous violence in “those” two scenes. He is terrific in it.
I remember Josh Hartnett from the opening scene of Sin City, one of my favorite openings ever, remembered him ever since
Saying he did not turn down Batman Begins is misleading. This was mid 2003, he was the most famous and popular young "serious" actor in the world, and this was the same studio that offered him the potentially largest contract ever for Superman during that same year. If Josh Hartnett had been interested in the role, it was 100% his. That he told Nolan he was not interested in it is, in a practical (if not legal) sense, turning it down.
In 2023, Josh had FOUR projects out. Oppenheimer, Black Mirror, Operation Fortune, and the UK series The Fear Index.
30 days of night was a good horror movie.
best representation of vampires IMO
Thank you for this video
Great actor, he was terrific in Penny Dreadful with the amazing Eva Green.
Brandon Hardesty quotes that will live on forever, "Serial killers, I don't like them."
He was an actor who had fallen off the Hollywood radar for many years, and I was surprised to see him reappear in Oppenheimer, now 45 years old.
He’s been doing one or two independent films every year, just not major studio ones. It’s what he left Hollywood to do. He’s got a great reputation with directors and he’s a multimillionaire living the good life.😊
I only watched this for the flubber vhs trailer at the end.
Bunraku IS a great movie! Bonkers, and funny as hell. Hartnett, Harrelson and McKidd are freaking brilliant in it. You can rent it on TH-cam, see for yourself!
Lucky Number Sleven is classic movie for me! I remember watching that shit way too young and loving me some Lucy Lou❤😂
The Faculty was actually Hunknett’s second role in film, first was a few months earlier in Halloween H20.
He was cast in The Faculty first, which started shooting first. Then he was cast in Halloween: H20, went back and forth on both while shooting, and Halloween was released first.
Vice versa
@@TheBackFocus You are right. In an out take, the director in H2O yelled at him for not knowing his lines, accusing him of playing around instead of learning them. “ Man, I only got 2 hours of sleep last night,” he whined. And Jamie consoled him. He was so cute! 😊
@@TheBackFocus Ah I gotcha, thank you for correcting me! I knew they were both released in the second half of 98' so it makes sense.
i looooove lucky number slevin
fuckshitjesus is right
Interesting career, he would have made a great Batman or Superman, he was much younger than most people realized when he first blew up, the rare star in his true early 20s actually playing characters his own age or a bit older. He was a good 6-7 years younger than Affleck and Beckinsale in Pearl Harbor but has to play their same age. Will be interesting to see where his career goes.
Your videos rock and you should make one on Rhys Coiro(Billy Walsh from Entourage) an actor who deserves as much praise as Jeremy Piven got
03:27. OMG lol He looks like Clea Duvall with that hair, who's actually one of his costars in The Faculty.
Your Patreon needs more tiers, Brandon. Just a suggestion.
Well i think i can feel that this Man is very interesting and impressed me because of his Real looks makes me feel better and I love ❤❤❤❤❤
30 days of night. 🖤
I love a movie of his called Wicker park...it's so sweet
Bunraku is a good movie.
Bunraku is a freaking GREAT movie! 😊
He always reminded me of Tommy Lee Jones as if he could be his son or a younger version. I never got my wish of them playing relatives to my knowledge.
Yeah love that guy!
my god, how I have forgotten how these "coming to vhs" commercials were.... what a shock to the system!
is it alright i still call you no small parts for old memories sake?
By all means
I dont know if you have or not, but could you do a run down of The Faculty?
It has but hasnt reached "cult classic" just yet... I remember watching the tv promos and reading about it in the teen rag mags 😅.
I enjoyed it. It’s a nice, clever send up hybrid of Body Snatchers and The Thing.
It has become a cult classic for quite a while now.😊
02:45 dude, I call this the Peter Gibbons approach to life. Have you never seen the Mike Judge classic Office Space? 😂
love it
I always thought he had a Keanu Reeves vibe. Always liked him from Black Hawk Down onwards for sure.
We were all 11 when he was big. He was like the last great American movie star.
Nooooo. Some of us were his age and even a bit older in his early years. ☺️
Him: I didn’t know who Josh Hartnett was
Me: oh you’re 25. Got it.
37
@TheBackFocus What?! I'm 36, and I know him!
Years ago, I heard that he wouldn't wax his unibrow anymore because he found it to be too painful. He'd even put it in his contract, and it prevented him from getting roles. No idea if there's even a sliver of truth to that, but that was a rumor which was spread around.
Among all those other rumors that have swirled around him for 2 decades 😂 In an interview not too long ago he said some of the stories about him are “pretty silly” and he just won’t talk about them anymore.
When they were shooting VS, Coppola gave him a cake when he turned 20. “ Here,” she said, “you’re not a teenage heartthrob anymore.” That’s the story.
Watching this video and trying to convince my wife that Josh Hartnett is heartthrob. She doesn't see it
Take her to get her eyes tested 😂
He had a similar career path to Heath Ledger but disappeared before, becoming the next Matt Damon or Ben Affleck.
Wicker Park is another good movie of Josh Harnetts from the mid-2000s
Can you do David Cross next? Pleeeeease!!! 😁
I love it when Hartnett shows up. He's basically an established character actor in his own right. That being said, Trap looks terrible. I could be wrong and the doubt is compelling me to go see what I'm convinced will either be gold or garbage
Trap is totally different from other M Knight movies. It’s a suspenseful cat and mouse thriller with outrageous improbabilities and a preposterous concept. Don’t let the negative reviews put you off. This film is off the wall and Hartnett is GOLD. 😊
Honestly, never a huge fan of his. But he blew me away in Oppenheimer.
Damn, he's a true sigma.
if this is a poem to how gorgeous he is i will subscribe for the rest of my life
You haven't seen 30 Days of Night before!?
Obsessed then. Obsessed now. Gorgeous and articulate.. hot damn.
Sucks he never wanted to be a superhero because MAN would he would have been a great Terry McGuinness. Batman Beyond
The female interview that interview him on the bed was so thirsty and was obviously hitting on him 😂
❤❤
Luckily Number Slevin is my favourite JH movie
You were still mainlining Flubber at eleven!?
how did you never hear about him
In sin city i liked his role
Trap is fiction! 😂 There’s no blood, guts, slashing from Cooper the serial killer. It’s a look into the mind of a psycho masking around as the doting daddy. The concept is preposterous, the improbabilities hilarious. M Knight told us this movie was not like his usual twisties. This is a suspenseful cat and mouse thriller with a parody undertone. Just suspend your disbelief and go with the flow! Hubs and I watched it twice it was that entertaining.
He had a similar career path to Heath Ledger but disappeared before, becoming the next Matt Damon or Ben Affleck.
He did not disappear! He didn’t like the persona Hollywood was creating for him so as soon as his studio contract expired he went back to independent films. I was always impressed by that self-awareness at only 24 years old. Hubs and I have been following his career for 20 years! Some of his indie performances are
phenomenal.
@mgariepy42 mate you just rephrased what I exactly said. Obviously, he didn't enjoy being a mainstream actor. Even Health Ledger wasn't the limelight type either.
Black Hawk Down spoiler alert is hilarious because it was a legitimate American international crisis that really happened.
I hope he would play zorro
Come onnnnn Batman
30 days
The bed interview is so wrong. Yikes.
Spoiler for TRAP
No? We didn’t include any Trap spoilers.
@@TheBackFocus I guess any time someone makes a video anthology of an actor’s performances you have to say No Spoilers. Like we’re dunces or something.🤦♀️
Dude, the spoilers were totally unnecessary for the purpose of this video.
I hear you. We’re going to be more careful with spoilers going forward. We initially didn’t think it was a big deal to spoil Pearl Harbor, but I think we’ve been underestimating what you guys don’t want spoiled. Peace and love
@@TheBackFocus Pearl Harbor was the least omportant, but thanks for the reply
Why would you think a video like this would focus on Josh’s great performances and not show why? why does the guy have to put No Spoilers on a video that says the actor is Hollywood’s best-kept secret? 🤔
Been with the channel for years but post spoiler spoiler tags as a joke equals an unsubscribe from me.
That was the clincher? Just joking around. Peace and love.
@@TheBackFocus It might seem silly but watching a film appreciation channel that degrades my ability to sit down and enjoy films just doesn't make sense to me. Take care.
@@oscarwright179 sometimes I read the plot in Wikipedia and while watching the film I am not bothered with the fact that I know how it's gonna twist, develop and end. Furthermore if a film is great, or at least good and appealing to me, I'll return to it despite my first "spoilery" watching. That applies to Kurosawa's "7 Samurai", Peckinpah's "The Wild Bunch" or Lean's 'Lawrence of Arabia". I'll even rewatch "The Usual Suspects" and Jeremy Brett's 1980s-1990s Granada TV "Sherlock Holmes". Hell I already did half a dozen times during the last 40 years!
@@oscarwright179 Whaaaat? Having to put Spoiler Free on videos that focus on performances is just nuts. He says Best Kept Secret and that didn’t give you a clue he was going to talk about why? 🤦♀️
dont do that to josh smh
You’re 37 and didn’t know who he was… liar
Hes not back. His last three movies were shit.
He was never gone. And what 3 movies are you talking about? Some films he’s made aren’t particularly good but his performances are 👌 His last 3? Oppenheimer, Ida Red, Inherit the Viper are all 5*
I remember him from "the faculty " when i was lik 10. Of course i remember him ..his name was zeek and he sold drugs. The drugs (cocaine) was the only thing that could kill the parasite.
It wasn't cocaine, it was a drug named 'skat', made with 'caffeine and some household sht'
Guaranteed to jack you up! Looooove Zeke! ☺️