It’s always a bit heartwarming when a talented performer makes a public return after years of relative obscurity. They can come back like a force of nature and get their career back on the upswing, and that’s always a great success story. For today’s example, we are looking at Josh Hartnett.
Josh was a teen heartthrob of the end of the 1990’s and much of the 2000’s. Looking through his Wikipedia, you see several notations of nominations for Teen Choice Awards, MTV Movie Awards, and Saturn Awards. He was everywhere.
Even as he aged up and clearly was not getting offered Hot Teen roles anymore, he was getting cast in bigger budget outings like Lucky Number Slevin and 30 Days Of Night . It seemed like his career was maturing with him, and we’d really be seeing a lot of his growth and transformation on screen. Then the late 2000’s through the early 2020’s happened, and Josh Hartnett seemingly vanished from the face of Hollywood.
Oh, he was still working, but less so and in smaller roles in smaller pictures. And, as times works on everyone, we all just kind of moved on and didn’t think too much about him any longer. As a big Halloween franchise fan, I would watch H20 every now and then and think, “Whatever happened to that kid with the hair?” Then, all of the sudden, he was back! In the awards darling and big budget success Oppenheimer , no less! It was time for the Josh Hartnett renaissance, and his follow up to Oppy is the M.
Night Shyamalan thriller, Trap .