He was pretty in "Pearl Harbor", bland in "Black Hawk Down", and scared in "Halloween H20" - but has Josh Hartnett ever faced a stiffer challenge than working with grumpy ol' Harrison Ford in "Hollywood Homicide"?
So what happened with that car crash everyone's been talking about?
Look, I crashed one car. I still maintain that it wasn't my fault. I think the director Ron Shelton would agree with me. Harrison [Ford] is just stirring the pot. I didn't almost kill him as much as he persists that I did.
How was it to do a film with Harrison?
Harrison's an icon. It was a treat to meet him.
But what it was it like to work with him?
Well, it's never like you anticipate. We went out and met each other for the first time. Harrison started judging me instantly, trying to figure out how to play me, where I fit in the way he looked at things. Ultimately it took a long time but we got along after a while. There was a little bit of tension. I think he's had a little bit of tension with other young actors he's worked with.
So tell us about the on-screen relationship between your two characters...
We were going for a kind of father-son relationship between the characters. The young cop who really wants the older cop's affection and the older cop who doesn't understand the young cop at all. They really don't understand each other. It's a kind of cross generational thing.
You're a cop, but like Harrison's character you also have a second job right?
Yeah. He's doing real estate on the side and my character is teaching yoga. I did about seven months of training. I started three and a half months before filming started and kept it up through shooting. I did about an hour and a half every day. Not much of it was in the film but it kind of helped me set it up. I loved yoga. It was a lot of fun. But I've had to give it up now. I don't get enough time these days.
