Josh Hartnett Reveals How Family Helped Him Shed Trap's Dark Character After Filming
We talked to Josh Hartnett about how he handles playing a dark character.
Warner Bros. Pictures and M. Night Shyamalan are teaming up for a new horror/thriller film, Trap. The new project stars Josh Hartnett as a man who gets stuck at a concert with his daughter while police try to catch a serial killer. If you've seen the movie's trailer, you know Hartnett is playing the killer in question, and the movie sees him enter a game of cat and mouse with the authorities. ComicBook recently had the chance to chat with Hartnett about the film, and he explained how he was able to shed his dark character when the production was complete.
"Actually, you know what, this one was pretty dark," Harnett began. "Kids don't allow you the time to sort of go through your own stuff and worry about your day in the way that I would have before I had kids. So, they just necessarily come home and there are things to do. I gotta cook dinner or I gotta put them to bed or I gotta change a nappy or whatever. Sorry, diaper. I live in the UK. Nappy is diaper in the UK."
"They take you right out of all that stuff that you're thinking about," he continued. "And I think it's a great thing because then you get to kind of just completely reset without having to worry too much about it. There's some residual stuff that sticks with you because it's really dark psychology that we're dealing with with this character. And everything else is a put-on, so all the stuff with the daughter and the wife, that's all just a facade until maybe he realizes that some of it's actually struck a chord in him. And that's an interesting journey for the character and it's also interesting as an actor to be able to play that. But it's not something you want to live with every day."
You can watch our interview with Hartnett at the top of the page.
What Is Trap About?
Trap (2024)
- Warner Bros.)In Trap, "A father and teen daughter attend a pop concert, where they realize they're at the center of a dark and sinister event." Written and directed by M. Night Shyamalan, Trap stars Josh Hartnett, Ariel Donoghue, Saleka Shyamalan, Hayley Mills and Allison Pill. The film is produced by Ashwin Rajan, Marc Bienstock, and M. Night Shyamalan. The executive producer is Steven Schneider.
The director of photography is Sayombhu Mukdeeprom (Call Me by Your Name). The production designer is Debbie de Villa (The Hating Game). It is edited by Noëmi Preiswerk and the music is by Herdĭs Stefănsdŏttir (Knock at the Cabin). The music supervisor is Susan Jacobs (Old); the costume designer is Caroline Duncan (Old). The casting is by Douglas Aibel (Asteroid City).
Warner Bros. Pictures Presents A Blinding Edge Pictures Production, An M. Night Shyamalan Film: Trap. The film will be distributed worldwide by Warner Bros. Pictures, in theaters only nationwide on August 9th and internationally beginning on August 1st.
