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| Empire May 1999 |
| He's the horror sweetheart graduating from Halloween H:20 to alien school romp The Faculty. "I felt like I was under water, like I couldn't breathe," squints Josh Hartnett, remembering the premiere for Halloween H:20 (in which he played Jamie Lee Curtis' son). "People were closing in asking for autographs and I sensed danger, but how do you defend yourself against an autograph?" In the absence of security gaurds the tufty-haired 20-year-old has defended his privacy with a tweedy knit hat that he wears pulled low, however ferociously the Californian sun blazes. "It blocks me off, I'm not a big LA fan," he explains. And yet Movie Town has the hots for him - his first audition was for The Thin Red Line. Despite eight call backs he didn't get the job but instead landed Fitz (US TV version of Cracker) playing the equivalent of Robbie Coltrane's son. Now his 6'4" of cool can be seen as drug-pushing Zeke in Robert Rodriquez's high school horror/sci-fi flick The Faculty. Seemingly wise to the fact that he'll soon need a balaclave to protect his privacy - the Hollywood hype machine has pronounced him the next Di-Caprio - he has moved back to live with his family in Minnesota. Not that he spends much time there. He's currently in Carolina playing lago in the hip Othello project O, and last year alone found him in Austin, Texas for The Faculty, Toronto for Sofia Coppola's directorial debut Virgin Suicides and New York for Town and Country as the son of Warren Beatty and Dinae Keaton. "I should be getting photographs of me with my arm around these people like restaurant owners do, because eventually I am going to have to prove to my kids that once I was an actor!" |