Josh Hartnett was one of the biggest names in Hollywood in the late’90s and early 2000s. Then he stepped away at the height of his fame, moved to Minnesota, married actress Tamsin Egerton in 2021, and built a quiet life with their four kids. Now he’s back, and the genre he returned through is turning heads.
His recent slate is stacked with horror and horror-adjacent projects:“Penny Dreadful,”“30 Days of Night,”M. Night Shyamalan’s“Trap,”the Colleen Hoover thriller“Verity,”and Netflix’s new sea monster series“Below.”Fans have coined the moment the“Hartnett-aissance,”and it lands during a broader horror boom, with“Sinners,”“Weapons,”and“Frankenstein”all earning mainstream awards attention last year.
Hartnett says horror isn’t what pulls him in. It’s the creative freedom. He told sources that directors get more room to experiment in the genre, adding that“you can get away with more.”Horror creator Mike Flanagan agrees, calling the genre eternal and currently in an especially interesting moment. So which of Hartnett’s horror projects are you most excited to watch?
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