SPOILER ALERT: This article contains spoilers for the first season of “Below,” now streaming on Netflix.
\n\nJosh Hartnett is having an A-list fall, but he’s mostly focused on making sure he’s on time for school pickup.
\n\nI’m catching the actor via Zoom in between errands at his house in England, where he lives with his wife and four children. In conversation, he lights up most when talking about the simplicity of family life or the actual process of acting.
\n\nDecades after the chaos of being a teen idol threatened to dwarf his emotionally resonant performances in films such as 1999’s “The Virgin Suicides” and 2001’s “Black Hawk Down,” the celebrity part of the business doesn’t interest Hartnett very much — which makes sense, as he always seemed to be a character actor blessed with leading-man good looks.
\n\nOver the last five years, Hartnett has had something of a career resurgence, appearing in high-profile projects that showed far different sides of him. He played a psycho killer (and loving dad!) in 2024’s “Trap,” a brutal fighting machine in the 2025 action-comedy “Fight or Flight” and, of course, the key role of Ernest Lawrence in 2023’s “Oppenheimer.”
\n\nHis October is busy with…
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