{"id":114710,"date":"2024-07-28T22:01:37","date_gmt":"2024-07-28T22:01:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/28\/josh-hartnett-remembers-dealing-with-unhealthy-fan-attention\/"},"modified":"2024-07-28T22:01:37","modified_gmt":"2024-07-28T22:01:37","slug":"josh-hartnett-remembers-dealing-with-unhealthy-fan-attention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/28\/josh-hartnett-remembers-dealing-with-unhealthy-fan-attention\/","title":{"rendered":"Josh Hartnett remembers dealing with &#8216;unhealthy&#8217; fan attention"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"byline\">\n<time itemprop=\"datePublished\" content=\"2024-07-28\" datetime=\"1722204097\" pubdate=\"\">28 July 2024<\/time>\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/josh-hartnett\/\" class=\"exposure-link \" data-linktrack=\"LinkTracker,articleExposure,josh-hartnett\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Josh Hartnett<\/a> received an &#8220;unhealthy&#8221; amount of fan attention during his younger years.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p class=\"image-caption landscape\">Josh Hartnett has recalled his struggles with fame<\/p>\n<p>The 46-year-old actor achieved heartthrob status as a teenager, but Josh now admits that he found it to be an overwhelming experience.<\/p>\n<p>He told the Observer newspaper: &#8220;People\u2019s attention to me at the time was borderline unhealthy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Asked to clarify what he meant, Josh replied: &#8220;Well, look, I don\u2019t want to give this a lot of weight &#8230; There were incidents. People showed up at my house. People that were stalking me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Josh recalled one incident when &#8220;a guy showed up at one of my premieres with a gun, claiming to be my father. He ended up in prison.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\nJosh ultimately decided to step away from Hollywood, and focus his attention on independent projects instead.<\/p>\n<p>\nHe explained: &#8220;There were lots of things. It was a weird time. And I wasn\u2019t going to be grist for the mill.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\nMeanwhile, Josh previously admitted that he hasn&#8217;t had a &#8220;cohesive career&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe actor was one of the most sought-after stars in Hollywood during his younger years, but Josh has subsequently opted to shun some big-budget film projects.<\/p>\n<p>\nSpeaking to The Independent, Josh &#8211; who previously starred in &#8216;Pearl Harbor&#8217; and &#8216;Black Hawk Down&#8217; &#8211; explained: &#8220;I have an artistic mind, and I want to follow things that are somehow just outside of my understanding.<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;Does that necessarily make for a cohesive career in a movie star sense? No. But before the last few years I just had less of a chance to do it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\nJosh loves making movies and TV shows &#8211; but he doesn&#8217;t enjoy the pressures of fame.<\/p>\n<p>\nHe explained: &#8220;Coming up to the city and doing an interview is a rarity. Typically, I work on the films that I work on, and then I go home.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/celebrity\/josh-hartnett-remembers-dealing-unhealthy-fan-attention-1403642.html?f=rss\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>28 July 2024 Josh Hartnett received an &#8220;unhealthy&#8221; amount of fan attention during his younger years. Josh Hartnett has recalled his struggles with fame The 46-year-old actor achieved heartthrob status as a teenager, but Josh now admits that he found it to be an overwhelming experience. He told the Observer newspaper: &#8220;People\u2019s attention to me [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":114711,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[6964],"class_list":{"0":"post-114710","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-make-up","8":"tag-josh-hartnett"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114710\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}