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Kirsten Dunst Scared To Kiss Josh Hartnett In Virgin Suicides
Kirsten Dunst was just 16 when she portrayed the rebellious Lux Lisbon in Sofia Coppola's The Virgin Suicides. In the film, which is an adaptation of Jeffrey Eugenides's novel, Kirsten's character engages in a brief romance with Trip Fontaine, played by Josh Hartnett. Kirsten has spoken at length about feeling incredibly worried when it came to shooting intimate scenes with Josh, who was 19 when the film was made. Last year, she told GQ that one particular scene — which saw her passionately making out with Josh in a car — made her 'the most nervous,' adding that she was 'mortified' when she realized she had accidentally bitten him during filming. Fast forward to today, and Kirsten, 43, has opened up further about what it was like shooting these uncomfortable scenes while attending a special screening of The Virgin Suicides in LA in honor of the film's 25th anniversary. Per People, the actor recalled feeling worried when she first read the script at age 16, telling the audience, 'It was a lot of things that I was feeling that I hadn't expressed. They were very private.' 'I was worried about kissing Josh in the car and making out with boys on the roof,' she recalled. 'Which Sof didn't make me do. She was like, 'Just nuzzle into their shoulder and we'll shoot it abstractly.' But I hadn't entered this side of my own personality, even though it was there.' Speaking of shooting the car takeout scene, Kirsten admitted that she found it 'terrifying' as an 'innocent' 16-year-old. 'That was a really memorable night. So I was waiting, [Sofia was] like, 'Okay, you can go.' And I had to jump on Josh in a car, which — I was a very innocent 16-year-old — was terrifying,' she said. Feel free to share your thoughts down below.
Toronto Star
24-05-2025
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- Toronto Star
As this Toronto-shot cult classic turns 25, a new book celebrates its dreamlike production
The first time I saw director Sofia Coppola' s 'The Virgin Suicides,' I was a 19-year-old university student. Balancing my new-found adulthood and the desire to stay rooted in my girlhood, I was fascinated by the world of the Lisbon sisters. Through Coppola's dreamy lens, I was instantly mesmerized from the opening scene, as Kirsten Dunst's Lux takes the last licks of her popsicle on her suburban street. Upon entering the film's enigmatic universe, we see lovely shots of the suburbs — someone watering a lawn, a pair of girls walking a dog, workers cutting down a tree — that make it easy to fall in love with the monotony of the Lisbons' Michigan town in the mid-1970s. If it all looks familiar, that's because 'The Virgin Suicides' was filmed in Toronto.
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13-05-2025
- Entertainment
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Josh Hartnett Is Teased By His English Daughters
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. 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. 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!'
Toronto Sun
09-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Toronto Sun
Stow your tray tables and brace for comedy in ‘Fight or Flight'
Published May 09, 2025 • 3 minute read Josh Hartnett stars in "Fight or Flight." MUST CREDIT: Csaba Aknay/Vertical Entertainment Photo by Csaba Aknay/Vertical Entertainme / Csaba Aknay/Vertical Entertainme Some actors are best left to weather outside until they've properly aged, like firewood or a good Scotch. (Humphrey Bogart being the ideal example.) Josh Hartnett was something of an It Boy at the turn of the millennium, with lead roles in 'The Virgin Suicides,' 'Pearl Harbor,' 'Black Hawk Down' and more. Then, like with many It Boys, his career cooled. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. THIS CONTENT IS RESERVED FOR SUBSCRIBERS ONLY Subscribe now to read the latest news in your city and across Canada. Unlimited online access to articles from across Canada with one account. Get exclusive access to the Toronto Sun ePaper, an electronic replica of the print edition that you can share, download and comment on. Enjoy insights and behind-the-scenes analysis from our award-winning journalists. Support local journalists and the next generation of journalists. Daily puzzles including the New York Times Crossword. SUBSCRIBE TO UNLOCK MORE ARTICLES Subscribe now to read the latest news in your city and across Canada. Unlimited online access to articles from across Canada with one account. Get exclusive access to the Toronto Sun ePaper, an electronic replica of the print edition that you can share, download and comment on. Enjoy insights and behind-the-scenes analysis from our award-winning journalists. Support local journalists and the next generation of journalists. Daily puzzles including the New York Times Crossword. REGISTER / SIGN IN TO UNLOCK MORE ARTICLES Create an account or sign in to continue with your reading experience. Access articles from across Canada with one account. Share your thoughts and join the conversation in the comments. Enjoy additional articles per month. Get email updates from your favourite authors. THIS ARTICLE IS FREE TO READ REGISTER TO UNLOCK. Create an account or sign in to continue with your reading experience. Access articles from across Canada with one account Share your thoughts and join the conversation in the comments Enjoy additional articles per month Get email updates from your favourite authors Don't have an account? Create Account Two decades on, Hartnett's in his mid-40s and popping up again, as a serial-killer dad in M. Night Shyamalan's 'Trap' (2024) and, this week, in the ratty, fizzy action comedy 'Fight or Flight.' An actor who once seemed a passable carbon copy of the young Tommy Lee Jones has apparently decided he has little left to lose, and it's made him … interesting. He's grumpier, wearier, wilier. He's having FUN. 'Fight or Flight' gives Hartnett ample room to play. An unrepentant B-movie with a Grade A concept – the star plays a former Secret Service agent who has to find and arrest an unknown terrorist on a plane full of assassins – the film takes what could have been grim going in the hands of, say, Steven Seagal and gives it an antic, often hilarious spin. Yes, it's violent in arcs and spurts of increasing absurdity, but the frenetic pace, slaphappy fight choreography and committed performances keep 'Fight or Flight' teetering on the edge of farce. If the John Wick movies were played for laughs, they might look something like this. Your noon-hour look at what's happening in Toronto and beyond. By signing up you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc. Please try again This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Hartnett's Lucas Reyes is bottle-blond, burned-out and washed-up in Thailand when the movie opens, but he's the only one on the ground when his higher-ups in America need someone to catch the Ghost, a brilliant international hacker-terrorist who's boarding a red-eye to San Francisco. The Ghost's identity is unknown, so he could be anybody on the plane, but Lucas's job, once he sobers up from his latest bender, is to find the terrorist and bring him in alive. Unfortunately, the Ghost has a $10 million bounty on his head and a travel itinerary that just went public on the dark web, which means that some, or most or all of the agent's fellow passengers aren't tourists on their way to the City by the Bay. Josh Hartnett and Charithra Chandran in 'Fight or Flight.' Photo by Csaba Aknay / Vertical Entertainme Helmed by James Madigan, a second-unit director moving up to the big chair, from a screenplay by Brooks McLaren and D.J. Cotrona, 'Fight or Flight' is high-spirited junk, too full of itself at times but mostly content to work out every last variation on a theme: How do you kill someone on an airplane? The assassins come in baroque waves and are dispatched in the same manner, from a pompous actor-hitman (Marko Zaror) to a lady 'apex predator' (Nóra Trokán) to Chinese gangsters and Italian mobsters and a lot of hulking guys played by actors named Tíbor and Gábor and István. (The movie was filmed in Hungary.) This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Not everyone on the plane is out for blood. The flight crew includes an officious prat (Hughie O'Donnell), an OCD newbie (Danny Ashok) and Isha (Charithra Chandran of TV's 'Bridgerton' and 'Alex Rider'), who becomes Lucas's ally, social conscience and impromptu medic. The Ghost has a few ringers on the flight, as well, including a trio of lady samurai because – well, just because. Believable? Not in the least. Enjoyable? Surprisingly so, once you hop on the wavelength of giddy, exhausted overkill along with Hartnett's increasingly woozy hero. 'Fight or Flight' juggles not only chain saws but also ice axes, small in-flight butter knives, a clarinet wielded with lethal force, and a vial of toad venom that briefly causes Lucas and the movie as a whole to hallucinate pretty fireworks where other characters see geysers of blood. On its way to an ending that's both preposterous and the only logical way out, the filmmakers broker the notion that not ALL international hacker-terrorists might be bad people, and that some of the shadowy figures who move between the worlds of national intelligence and Silicon Valley might be measurably worse. But that's taking 'Fight or Flight' more seriously than it deserves. 'How much more f—ed up can this get before it qualifies as f—ed up?' someone asks here. The answer: a lot. – – – Ty Burr is the author of the movie recommendation newsletter Ty Burr's Watch List at – – – RATING: Three stars Read More Toronto & GTA Columnists NBA NFL Ontario
Los Angeles Times
09-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Los Angeles Times
Josh Hartnett saves the riotously violent ‘Fight or Flight' from crash-landing
Take note: If you have any anxiety about flying, director James Madigan's 'Fight or Flight' will not be for you. But if a cheap and cheerful one-setting action thriller à la 'Bullet Train' featuring one of the preeminent heartthrobs of the Y2K era is up your alley, well then belly up to this (airport) bar. The flick isn't a masterpiece, not even a vulgar one, but it's cheeky and entertaining enough in its giddy hyper-violence, thanks almost entirely to the star turn of Josh Hartnett, who has proved during his recent renaissance that he's especially great in bozo mode. Hartnett was the brooding bad boy in movies like 'The Faculty' and 'The Virgin Suicides,' which rocketed him to stardom in the late '90s. But in recent years, his career has been reinvigorated, playing characters like 'Boy Sweat Dave' in Guy Ritchie's 'Wrath of Man,' and turning in especially delicious work in M. Night Shyamalan's 'Trap.' For 'Fight or Flight,' Hartnett looks straight out of the 2000s with his bleached hair and cargo shorts, the only difference is that he's now unleashed, freed from those moody shackles: wild-eyed and frequently covered in fake blood the vibrant hue of strawberry jam. Indeed, 'Fight or Flight' wouldn't work without his fizzy central performance that brings an edge of mania to the absurd premise, which is essentially 'Assassins on a Plane.' The script, by Brooks McLaren and 'Shazam' actor D.J. Cotrona, draws on the kind of 'John Wick'-style story that the action franchise perfected when it posed the question: What if there was a bounty on a hit man's head? 'Fight or Flight' borrows the conceit and sets it in a confined, high-altitude setting, taking a humorous tone for its thrills. Hartnett plays a down-on-his luck drifter named Lucas, who wakes up in Bangkok with a hangover, a black eye and his hated ex Katherine (Katee Sackhoff) calling him for a favor. A high-level security professional, Lucas is her last option after a hacker known as Ghost has stolen billions in cryptocurrency following a terrorist attack. Katherine needs Lucas to get on the same plane in order to deliver the hacker into custody (alive), and he's the only one she knows on the ground at the moment. When he boards the flight, he's not aware that a bounty on Ghost's head has spread across the dark web and thus, the rest of the passengers are mostly assassins, looking to make an easy buck. And so, aviation mayhem ensues, as Lucas fights off a coterie of bad guys through a haze of drugs and liquor. He has his own reasons for wanting to complete the task — events in his past that explain why he ended up on his journey to the heart of darkness through the bottom of a whiskey bottle in Southeast Asia. They are honorable, of course, and when we meet Ghost, we discover motivations that are similarly altruistic, if a bit shallowly written. The filmmakers would rather focus on the outlandish violence anyway. Hartnett holds his own up and down the aisles, through the cargo area and into the bathroom, making use of the space and tools within his vicinity. But it's more fun to watch his face move than his body, his crazed eyes and tight grins delivering the high-wire tension. He has great chemistry with a feisty flight attendant (Charithra Chandran) and faces every foe with a gritted-teeth intensity and a sense of genuine surprise whenever he bests one. Madigan is fond of the trick that is setting particularly bloody sequences to high-energy, tonally mismatched tunes — Hartnett bashes and stabs his way through everything from punk to polka. But then the already goofy 'Flight or Flight' takes a turn to the insanely cartoonish as it begins its descent, into a tangle of hallucinatory madness, unearned twists and mind-boggling cliffhangers. It's a true Looney Tune with a shocking amount of digital blood. The film almost entirely squanders whatever appeal it may have churned up, except it all happens so fast. Surprisingly, Hartnett's Lucas hasn't worn out his welcome, even if the movie around him has fallen apart midair. Ergo, the old truism has never been truer: When it comes to 'Fight or Flight,' your mileage may vary. Katie Walsh is a Tribune News Service film critic.
