Josh Hartnett is reflecting on meeting his wife while the two co-starred in a movie in 2011.
The Trap star began dating fellow actor Tamsin Egerton in 2012 after meeting on the set of The Lovers. The couple have been married since 2021 and share four kids.
During a conversation with O co-star Julia Stiles in Interview magazine, Hartnett joked that they met in “the most Hollywood way imaginable.”
“We played husband and wife in the worst movie either of us has ever made,” he said. “No offense to the director, it’ll remain nameless. It just got lost in postproduction. We were shooting here in London and both had significant others, and both realized that wasn’t going to work because we really liked each other.”
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The Bear actor admitted he broke up with his girlfriend at the time, and Egerton broke up with her boyfriend at the time, and when they finished filming, they started dating.
“But I was living in New York, and she was living in London, so we went on a few vacations together,” Hartnett continued. “Then she came out to the States, and we went on a long road trip where she met my parents, and it kept going. And then she kept staying with me, and I kept staying with her. We were living a lot of the time between houses together, and then she got pregnant, and then we got married.”
After finding much success in the 1990s that led to roles in films like Pearl Harbor and Black Hawk Down, Hartnett stepped back from the limelight and acted in smaller projects. In a conversation with The Guardian in July, he explained why he chose to walk away from Hollywood, noting that he realized the attention he was receiving from people at the time was “borderline unhealthy” for him. He even cited incidents where people showed up at his house and were stalking him.
“I just didn’t want my life to be swallowed up by my work,” Hartnett said. “And there was a notion at that time you just kind of give it all up. And you saw what happened to some people back then. They got obliterated by it. I didn’t want that for myself.”
