Variety<\/em><\/a>, Hartnett went into detail about how his career has changed since his younger years.<\/p>\nHartnett notes that his priorities in acting have shifted since his younger years. He explains, \u201cI used to be really interested in the effect of the character and what the character meant to me, personally. I wanted to find a specific type of character, when I had choices when I was younger. And then as I got older, I realized, actually, I want to choose things that are way outside of what I understand. I also don\u2019t really care about what the character is as much as I care about the people that I\u2019m working with. If it\u2019s great people, then it\u2019s my job to figure out what the character is.\u201d<\/p>\n
As an example of his new challenges, Hartnett appears in Season 6 of Netflix\u2019s Black Mirror<\/em> as an astronaut who has the ability to transfer his mind into a replica body on Earth only to have to watch as his wife and family are murdered. Hartnett admits, \u201cWe did that for two nights, and it was really horrible. It was horrible to imagine because that\u2019s the only way I can do it. I\u2019m not much of an actor. I have to really put myself in a situation. That\u2019s the job. Sometimes you have to go to places you don\u2019t want to go to.\u201d<\/p>\nUnfortunately, Hartnett confesses that he finds it hard to shake off such heavy material after filming ends. He says, \u201cI\u2019m not great at getting out of it, especially if it\u2019s hard to get into. It takes about the same amount of kind of effort to come out because I can\u2019t just pick it up and put it down.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ultimately, Hartnett points out that these recent challenges have helped him rediscover his passion for acting. He says:<\/p>\n
\n\u201cI love my work and I want to put it out there and I want people to enjoy it. But like me, personally, I don\u2019t feel the way that I did when I was younger, because I was undefined. I was 19, 20, 21 years old. So, I was still trying to figure out who I was. Something of that magnitude that everybody knew about and sort of thought of me as the character, had an effect on me that I kicked back against. It was always something that I had to contend with at that age, and I was still trying to figure out what I meant to myself and to people around me. I don\u2019t think that could happen again at the age of 45 \u2014 I hope I\u2019ve got a little bit more there there.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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