Josh Hartnett’s Favorite Career Advice From George Clooney May Be a Rumor | Ask Me Anything | ELLE
Josh Hartnett is happy to have little in common with his ‘Trap’ character, which is a good thing — since he plays a serial killer. Watch as he candidly reflects on his long-standing career, from the teen heartthrob label he didn't want, to listing the many items he’s stolen from set (but it isn’t stealing if you created the character, right?). He also admits to being starstruck by Harrison Ford despite driving each other crazy on set, and reveals he didn’t get any friendship bracelets at Taylor Swift's 'Eras' tour.
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00:00I'm not a big fan of trucker hats.
00:02That's super annoying.
00:03Why are they in?
00:05Hi, I'm Josh Hartnett,
00:06and today I'm gonna let Elle ask me anything.
00:11Okay.
00:12What's your most embarrassing on-set moment?
00:14Oh God, I've had so many.
00:15One of my most embarrassing
00:17is the parachute scene from Pearl Harbor
00:21with Kate Beckinsale,
00:22where we are making love in the parachutes for some reason.
00:27She decided to bring her young one-year-old daughter
00:31and her boyfriend to set for the first time that day.
00:35I felt terrible the whole day.
00:37That was super embarrassing.
00:39Thanks, Kate.
00:41What's the last concert you went to?
00:43I went to Taylor Swift last Sunday
00:45with my eight-year-old and my almost seven-year-old
00:48and my wife, and it was surprisingly exciting.
00:52I was definitely not prepared for the Taylor Swift experience.
00:55We were in Wembley Stadium in London.
00:57There were 90,000 people.
00:59It was huge.
01:01And everybody knew the lyrics.
01:03It was crazy.
01:04Did you get any bracelets at the concert?
01:07I didn't get any bracelets myself.
01:08My kids got a lot of bracelets.
01:10Nobody approached me to give me bracelets.
01:12What's wrong with me?
01:14Have you ever stolen anything from set?
01:16It's not stealing
01:17if you're the one that created the character, right?
01:21I think I still have Tripp Fontaine's wig.
01:23I think I've got some of the BIC pens
01:25that were filled with scat from the faculty.
01:27I think I have the glasses
01:28that my character incongruously wore suddenly in the lab.
01:32Little things that maybe the art department wouldn't miss.
01:36Okay.
01:37Which of your past roles do you get asked about the most?
01:39People come up to me and talk to me
01:41about Tripp Fontaine and virgin suicides all the time.
01:44People come up and talk to me
01:45about Unlucky Number Slevin all the time.
01:47I think those are the two
01:48that people always want to talk about.
01:50Maybe it's because they're sort of more niche
01:54and people feel like they've come to it themselves
01:56as opposed to a bigger movie,
01:58but people love those characters.
02:00What is the best career advice you've received?
02:02I think it was George Clooney who said it
02:04to either someone who I know
02:07or someone who I know
02:09who knows someone who knows George Clooney.
02:11You're never as good as they say you are
02:13and you're never as bad as they say you are.
02:14And by the way, he might not have said it.
02:17It's probably just a rumor, but I like that advice.
02:20Which of your past co-stars were you most starstruck to meet?
02:23Probably Harrison Ford.
02:25I was born in 1978, prime Star Wars fanatic age.
02:30And then there was Indiana Jones.
02:31It was just like a one-two punch.
02:33I couldn't get away from the guy when I was a kid.
02:35And then I got to work with him and he drove me crazy
02:40and I drove him crazy.
02:41And I think we loved each other by the end.
02:43But yeah, I was very starstruck by Harrison.
02:47Do you remember the first time that you met?
02:48Yeah, I remember.
02:50Yeah, we met in a deli.
02:51He wanted to go get lunch.
02:53I ordered a bagel with salmon and cream cheese or something
02:58and stood there shaking,
03:00sort of like not being able to eat it.
03:02And we talked about our characters and about the film.
03:04And yeah.
03:07Describe your style in three words.
03:11Easy, available, comfortable.
03:15Name a 90s trend that needs to make a comeback.
03:17The Macarena?
03:24Not a big fan of trucker hats.
03:27It's super annoying.
03:28Why are they in?
03:30It's misrepresentation, you know?
03:32You're not a trucker.
03:33It's confusing.
03:35I consider this a fly-fishing hat.
03:36Oh shit, are you wearing it?
03:41I'm so sorry.
03:42I call it a fly-fishing hat.
03:46Oh, I'm so sorry.
03:48Ted Ford, good buddy.
03:52What's your favorite red carpet look?
03:54I don't know.
03:55Shorts and a t-shirt and a trucker hat.
04:00What's the best gift you've ever received from a co-star?
04:02So I've received some really good gifts over the years.
04:05But recently on Fight or Flight, one of my co-stars,
04:08Danny, gave me a signed copy of the script,
04:12Eight and a Half, signed by Federico Fellini.
04:15And it's my favorite film.
04:16And that was just insane.
04:18For this film, my lovely co-star, Ari,
04:21who plays my daughter,
04:22for some reason she didn't have earphones
04:24because her parents, like she's making this money
04:26from the film, but they wouldn't give it to her.
04:28So she didn't have earbuds and she really wanted earbuds.
04:30They were like, don't get them for her.
04:31At some point she'll do enough chores to get them.
04:34And I was like, that's just mean.
04:35So I gave her some earbuds and some other things
04:37and she was just over the moon.
04:39And I was like, kid, you're making movies now.
04:40Like you have to have some earbuds or something.
04:43And she gave me a very nice card
04:45that said that I looked like a ferret, I think.
04:49What's been your wildest fan encounter?
04:50I've had a few stalkers.
04:52That's pretty wild.
04:54Not fun.
04:55Hope not to repeat that.
04:56So I'm gonna try to be less charming.
04:58What's the craziest thing you've done to prepare for a role?
05:00I did this movie called Black Dahlia.
05:03I'm supposed to box in one scene in the film.
05:05So I started training.
05:07The movie got pushed back.
05:08I liked the training.
05:09I kept training.
05:10The movie got canceled.
05:12I kept training.
05:13New director came on.
05:15I kept training.
05:16I trained for about two years
05:18and loved it for one scene in a movie in which I get beat.
05:24Yeah.
05:25What's my nightly skincare routine?
05:27I used to wash my face with water.
05:29I kind of gave up on that.
05:31My wife said that I needed to start using moisturizer.
05:34So I do that once in a while.
05:38You're welcome.
05:40Name a current music artist you can't stop listening to.
05:43This band that I've been listening to
05:44that we keep putting on is like an unnameable band.
05:47They have, like, the weirdest name.
05:50Shit. How do I?
05:52Crumbin.
05:53Yeah.
05:54How do you say it?
05:55Crumbin.
05:56That's not a very exotic-sounding name.
05:59Like, the music is much more exotic.
06:01And I know that everybody plays it all the time now.
06:03It's a little bit, like, kind of cliche,
06:05but I'm going to say it anyway.
06:07Crumbin, I think, is probably the band
06:09that I've been playing most.
06:11What's the last show you binge-watched?
06:13I binge-watched The Bear recently.
06:15And I just was in The Bear today.
06:17So that's weird.
06:19Do you think you can tackle The Kitchen now?
06:22After watching the show?
06:23That's all you need, apparently.
06:26You watch that show and you're a chef, right?
06:30What do you have in common with your trap character?
06:32Cooper and I don't have a lot in common, thank God.
06:36But I was able to sort of get into the psychology of him
06:39and realize that, like, I know some Coopers.
06:42They don't necessarily kill people,
06:45but, you know, they're definitely sociopaths.
06:49How do you get into the mindset to play a serial killer?
06:52You read a lot of books,
06:53and you start to expect things to go your way.
06:58And if they don't, well, there's a way of taking care of it,
07:02which most people wouldn't do,
07:04but these guys have no problem with.
07:07What's the best and worst part of being a teen heartthrob?
07:09I wouldn't know.
07:10I'm 45 years old.
07:13That time of my career was a lot of stuff going on.
07:16I was sure that what I wanted to be seen as
07:18was totally different from what people saw me as.
07:21I was probably a little too worried about that.
07:23The worst part about being a teen heartthrob
07:25is, like, being a teen,
07:26because you're still filled with self-doubt.
07:29Best part is probably that that means
07:30that people are interested in watching you in films,
07:32and you get to make films.
07:34Thanks so much for hanging out with me and Elle.
07:36Please go see Trap.
07:37I think it's gonna be wilder than you anticipate,
07:41and we all love Ebonite Shyamalan.
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