Josh Hartnett Just Shared His Brother's Iconic Response To Him Accidentally Using A British Word After Permanently Relocating To England
Last year, Josh Hartnett made his much-anticipated return to the limelight in M. Night Shyamalan's movie Trap, with the Hollywood star arguably falling off the radar after becoming a '90s heartthrob as a teen.
Josh first entered mainstream consciousness when he starred in the 1998 movie The Faculty, and he was the leading man in Sofia Coppola's The Virgin Suicides a year later.
After that, Josh's career continued to flourish with movies like Pearl Harbor and 40 Days and 40 Nights, but as his star power grew, Josh began to turn down big blockbusters in favor of smaller indie movies — even rejecting the role of Superman twice.
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He also left Los Angeles and returned to his home state of Minnesota to avoid the glitz and glamor of fame. When he started dating English actor Tamsin Egerton in 2012, he permanently relocated to a small town in England.
Josh revealed that he and Tamsin had married in November 2021, and the two share four daughters together.
While the couple have never revealed their children's names, their oldest three are aged around 10, 8, and 6, and Josh revealed that they'd welcomed their fourth in February 2024.
And the star reflected on the playful relationship that he has with his children during a recent appearance on The Tonight Show, where he also admitted to clinging to his American roots while living in the English countryside.
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Acknowledging that his four daughters are born and raised Brits, Josh said: 'My kids love to give me crap about being American, because I'm the only American in our house. I'm a foreigner in my own home!'
'My middle one does a really good impersonation of me,' he went on. 'She'll just kinda turn to me and be like: 'I'm daddy and I like pizza and I won't mow the lawn,' as American as it gets, right?'
'And then my littlest daughter keeps telling me what it's like to be English,' Josh added to the laughter of the live studio audience. 'She keeps saying to me: 'You might not understand this, daddy, but in England, we say 'boot' instead of 'trunk' of a car.' I'm like: 'I've lived here longer than you! I made you!''
When host Jimmy Fallon asked Josh if he slips into an accent 'every now and then,' given that he lives in England full time, Josh admitted that he actively tries to avoid losing touch with his Americanisms — not least of all because his family mocks him if he does.
'Oh no,' Josh said of the accent. 'I mean, I will, because the language, the nouns are so different, there's just every once in a while I use the wrong noun. I had my family over, I think last Christmas, I said 'boot' or I said something English, like 'loo' instead of 'toilet,' and my brother goes: 'OK, Madonna.''
In case you didn't know, Madonna used to be renowned for speaking with a fake English accent.
'I'll never say anything like that again,' Josh laughed. 'I become more American when I get to the UK!'
You can watch the full clip below — let me know your thoughts in the comments!
Josh Hartnett's British children make fun of his American accent 😭 #FallonTonight pic.twitter.com/UmJhUxyPHK
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