In the early 2000s, Josh Hartnett was considered the next big Hollywood star at a younger age, with roles in films such as Black Hawk Down and Pearl Harbor. A few years later, the actor, who recently got the most attention from the fantasy series Penny Dreadful, became quieter and quieter.
But now Hartnett is slowly returning to the cinema. His Hollywood retreat had reasonswhich includes rejected roles from superhero icons.
Josh Hartnett rejected Superman and Batman at the time
In 2003, news broke that Hartnett would play Superman in a new movie starring the DC hero. However, the actor turned down the role. In the Metro interview in 2020, he spoke again about not wanting to sign a contract that would tie him to a franchise for a good 10 years.
Like Superman, Hartnett turned down the role of Batman, which Christian Bale eventually played in Christopher Nolan’s Batman Begins. According to Comic Book Movie, at the time the star was much more interested in starring in Prestige, which Nolan didn’t want to cast the actor for. That he Nolan declinedlater regretted more than his Superman cancellation.
Josh Hartnett is currently celebrating his biggest cinema comeback
In an interview with MR PORTER in early 2021, the actor opened up about retiring from Hollywood primarily because he prefer to live his life wanted. In the meantime, however, it seems to be driving him to the cinema again. Hartnett has appeared in supporting roles in the more recent Guy Ritchie films Cash Truck and Operation Fortune.
Be Biggest cinema comeback to date the star is celebrating with an important supporting role that reconciled his missed opportunity from back then. In Christopher Nolan’s new film Oppenheimer about the inventor of the atomic bomb, Hartnett plays the well-known US nuclear physicist and Nobel Prize winner Ernest Lawrence. The blockbuster is currently in cinemas.
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