What happened to Josh Hartnett? He's been hiding in this Minnesota Victorian
"What happened to Josh Hartnett?" "Where is Josh Hartnett now?"
Those are the popular search suggestions that come up when you're researching actor Josh Hartnett. He largely fell off the Hollywood radar more than a decade ago, after starring roles in big-budget movies like "Pearl Harbor" and "Black Hawk Down" (both 2001).
At the time, Hartnett was a 20-something actor who'd been dubbed Hollywood's Next Big Thing. Trouble was, no one had really asked him whether he wanted that. "I don’t know how I ended up in that position, how I ended up being the guy that everybody says is just being thrust on the American public," he told Vulture last year. His name had even been floated for roles including Superman, Batman and Spider-Man, but he shrugged them all off (along with a team of infighting agents and managers "trying to figure out who to put the blame on," he told Details).
Instead he retreated from the entertainment industry scene to the Twin Cities, where he grew up.
He hunkered down in an 1887 Victorian that he bought for $2,395,000 on Minneapolis' Lake of the Isles. (Click here or on a photo for a slideshow.) He wrote short stories. He painted and took photographs. He directed music videos. Indie film roles filled in the gaps. And "for a long time, I didn't do anything at all," he told Vulture.
Now it looks like the 36-year-old's long, self-imposed Minnesota exile is over.
Last year he co-starred on Showtime's series "Penny Dreadful," which was successful enough for a second season (debuting in April). It films in Dublin, and his girlfriend of two years, 26-year-old actress Tamsin Egerton, is English, so he isn't in the U.S. as often as he used to be.
Looking to "downsize locally as he will be spending less time in the region," as listing agency Sotheby's International Realty told the Minneapolis Star Tribune, he put his traditional-meets-modern home on the market a few days ago. He's asking $2,395,000 — exactly what he paid for it in 2002.
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