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Josh Hartnett recalls meeting wife Tamsin Egerton on set of 'the worst movie either of us have ever made' Have YOU got a story? Email [email protected] By Kevin Kayhart For Dailymail.com Published: 01:46 BST, 10 August 2024 | Updated: 01:53 BST, 10 August 2024 e-mail View comments Josh Hartnett is reflecting back on his relationship with wife Tamsin Egerton, and how a romance appeared to be brewing between them even before they went on their first date.

In fact, the actor, 46, used a bit of humor when describing their meeting as something like out of a Hollywood movie. 'We played husband and wife in the worst movie either of us have ever made. No offense to the director, it’ll remain nameless,' Hartnett revealed while promoting his new film Trap during a chat with Julia Stiles for Interview .



'It just got lost in post-production. We were shooting here in London and both had significant others, and both realized that wasn't going to work because we really liked each other.' He added, 'So I broke up with my girlfriend, she broke up with her boyfriend, and then after we stopped filming, we started to date.

' Josh Hartnett, 46, recalled how he met his wife Tamsin Egerton, 35, on the set of 'the worst movie either of us have ever made,' which he chose to not name; seen in 2024 Read More Josh Hartnett and wife Tamsin Egerton share a steamy kiss on the red carpet as they attend the world premiere of his new movie Trap in New York After doing a bit of easy fact-checking, it turns out they met on the set of the romance time travel adventure film The Lovers (2013), which was written and directed by Roland Joffé. The Lovers, which initially was titled Singularity, ended up being plagued with financial problems, in the years leading up to getting financing and during the production, according to the Bomb Report . The film is the tale of an impossible romance set against the backdrop of the first Anglo-Maratha war across two time periods and continents,' as reported by Wikipedia .

'And centered on four characters—a British officer in 18th century British India, the Indian woman he falls deeply in love with, and a 21st-century American marine archeologist and his wife.' Ultimately, after a number of false starts towards a premiere, the film would up being released as a DVD in the UK as Time Traveller in 2016. As for Hartnett and Egerton, they didn't waste any time moving forward with their romance, which initially began as a long-distance relationship, with the pair going between New York and London.

'Then she came out to the States and we went on a long road trip where she met my parents and it kept going,' Hartnett continued. It turns out Hartnett and Egerton met on the set of The Lovers, a film doomed with financing problems that was wriiten and directed by British filmmaker Roland Joffé After realizing their feelings for each other on the set of The Lovers, the couple started dating after the shoot in 2012; seen on July 24 The pair, who tied the knot in 2021, share four children together; seen in March at the Oscars in Hollywood 'And then she kept staying with me, and I kept staying with her. We were living a lot of the time between houses together.

' Eventually, Hartnett made the move to the UK, and they proceeded to expand their family with the arrival of their four children between late 2015 and 2019, whose names they haven't disclosed publicly. The couple would ultimately decide to tie-the-knot in November 2021. They also made the choice to raise their four kids in the Hampshire countryside of England, which was a welcome change of pace for the former Penny Dreadful star after living in Los Angeles many years.

'Hollywood is more than a place; it's like a state of mind.' 'If you're around people who are constantly talking about the movie business, your life is going to be pretty much one note. And I've never wanted that,' the Saint Paul, Minnesota native explained, He went on to confess to wanting to be around people doing lots of different things 'that would bring my mind off of my work and force me to grow in different directions.

' In Trap, Cooper (Hartnett) plays a serial killer who takes his teenage daughter Riley (Ariel Donoghue) to pop star Lady Raven's concert as her reward for getting good grades, only to realize that police are using the event as a sting operation in order to finally capture him Hartnett and filmmaker M. Night Shyamala have been out end force promoting Trap these last few weeks; they are pictured behind-the-scenes with actress Saleka Shyamalan Hartnett proceeded to confess that the contrasts are 'the spice of life.' The leading man plays a brutal serial killer dubbed 'The Butcher' in director M.

Night Shyamalan's new psychological thriller film Trap, which hit theaters in the U.S. on August 2.

After receiving mixed reviews from critics, Trap has grossed $25.3 million at the worldwide box office in the first six days since being released. Egerton, a Surrey, England native, is best known for her roles in the films Keeping Mum (2005), St Trinian's (2007), and the television series Camelot (2011).

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