PARK CITY, Utah — Josh Hartnett’s secret to staying thin is simple.
“If the movie’s good, I’m happy. If it’s terrible, I run away,” says the 28-year-old.
And as anyone who has seen Pearl Harbor, Wicker Park or The Black Dahlia knows, he’s done a lot of running.
However, with his latest Sundance offering, Resurrecting The Champ, he has cause to stand still.
For one, the drama, about a sports reporter who discovers a former boxing champion living on the streets, is very good — smart, emotional and finely-attuned.
Moreover, so is Hartnett, despite being required to hold his own against acting dynamo Samuel L. Jackson.
The film, which will be released later this year, was directed by critic-turned-director Rod Lurie and shot last summer in Calgary, which doubles for Denver.
Hartnett likely still needs one or two more compelling performances — and films — under his belt before he’s taken seriously, but the robust Champ puts him squarely in the ring.
As he told the crowd at the film’s premiere, the movie allowed him for the first time to play more than “kid-like people” with Peter Pan complexes.
Instead, in Champ, he is cast as a faltering, flawed journalist and newly-separated father of a six-year-old son.
And, yes, for those who care, Hartnett has purportedly been spotted around with Sienna Miller, who’s here for her Sundance entry, Interview.
A Google search points out representatives for the pair stress they’re just friends.
Teeth snapped:
Looks like somebody bit.
Teeth, a Carrie-esque horror movie about a teenage girl who develops incisors, um, down there, will be coming to a theatre near you now that The Weinstein Co. and Lionsgate have chomped down on the rights.
Reports suggest the companies intend to release the tale of a vagina in need of a dentist with its graphic content intact.
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