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March 23, 2006
Josh Hartnett: Slagging Off Lohan and Hilton For the Kids
The Reeler spent most of this morning hunkered down at the Regency with Lucy Liu, Sir Ben Kingsley and a few other principals from the nifty little neo-noir Lucky Number Slevin, due out April 7. And while our technical and aesthetic banter was enthralling as all hell, leading man Josh Hartnett's avowed resistance to being a "cog in the studio machine" reminded me of some fun criticisms he recently made of Lindsay Lohan and Paris Hilton.
"I don't think I even said that," Hartnett replied when asked about comments attributed to him by Jane Magazine (via Page Six). "But if I said something like that, I think it was more about what kids are trying to do these days with their lives. A lot of people are relying on, you know, 'I can be on a reality TV show and be a star tomorrow, so what does it matter?' You know? 'I'm just going to go to college and I'm going to party--prolonged adolescence.' But it's getting more and more (that) I think a lot of people are kind of betting on that.
"I probably used their names in some other context," he continued, a little more on topic. "I don't know. Anybody who makes a living in this business has done something right. I don't fault anybody for their way of doing things. But I think that that whole thing was totally misconstrued."
And yes--we did talk about Slevin itself, a fine film that I will cover here a little more conventionally closer to its release. But God only knows how much the nascent Hartnett/Lohan feud troubled you, so at least now you can get some sleep until the next misquote, decontextualization or whatever.
Posted by stvanairsdale at March 23, 2006 12:42 PM
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