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Josh Hartnett on 'Bunraku'

The Black Hawk Down star talks about his new action spectacular, his love of boxing and why he turned down Superman

31/08/2011

After making an early splash in films like Halloween: H20, The Faculty and The Virgin Suicides, Josh Hartnett settled into a respectable career balancing actor-friendly films like O and The Black Dahlia with bigger movies like Black Hawk Down and 30 Days of Night. His latest feature, Bunraku, is a dazzlingly inventive new action adventure from first time director Guy Moshe. Hartnett took some time to talk with CraveOnline about his role as a mysterious drifter in the strange new fantasy, his love of boxing and whether he prefers filming big budget spectaculars or rough-and-tumble indie films.
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CraveOnline: “Boon-RAH-ku.” Am I pronouncing that right?

Josh Hartnett: That’s it, yeah.

CraveOnline: Awesome. I’m off to a good start. You know, I’ve seen a lot of hyper-stylized movies that play off of genre archetypes before, but I’ve never quite seen anything like Bunraku. Is that how you were pitched the project? Were you shown all the unusual production design or were you just shown the script?

Josh Hartnett: Yeah, no, the production design and the style kind of came first. Guy Moshe, the director, asked me not to read the script until he’d had a conversation with me and explained what he was going for with the styling, and also his points of reference for the film. We shot this over three years ago, so it’s been a process getting it to the screen, and it’s not a huge budget film so Guy had limited resources to work with. And he understood that from the beginning, and he still thought that he could pull it off. He was incredibly ambitious, and he still is. And I respected that about him, so I was sold more on Guy’s potential than I was on the script itself.

CraveOnline: Did you like the script?

Josh Hartnett: I did. You know, it reminded me of Star Wars or Hidden Fortress. You know, little guys fighting the evil [overlords]… I thought it was a classic story. That being said, the dialogue’s not “classic” in any way. The characters, the archetypes, [and] where they were drawn from were different from your average script. I just found it to be a unique ride.

CraveOnline: I dug the movie, I’ve got to say. I was a big, big fan.

Josh Hartnett: Great!

CraveOnline: I didn’t know what to expect from watching the trailer. It seemed like it could just be all style, no substance, but the style was so unique. There’s this great shot I wanted to ask you about, where you character punches his way through a police station. But it plays out like a level from that old NES game Kung Fu Master, all side-scrolling.

Josh Hartnett: Yeah! Yeah!

CraveOnline: First off, was that you in the shot? Because the camera is so far away…

Josh Hartnett: Of course!

CraveOnline: Okay! Good!

Josh Hartnett: We didn’t have the money for face-replacement or anything!

CraveOnline: Fair enough! Were you able to pull that off in one take, or was there “movie magic” involved in that?

Josh Hartnett: Oh no, that’s one take. We had a… No! Actually, that’s two takes. It’s two levels per take. […] But we only had like two hours to shoot that, so everything was hyper choreographed. We could have done the whole thing in one, no problem, [but] we could only build two levels [on the] set. So we’d just go back up to the top, then go back down. It was a lot of fun to shoot that, because everybody had to be incredibly in tune. And it was one of the last things we did, so all of us and the stunt cast were all very close. We could just look at each other know if in some way we’re going to f*** up, and if we’re going to f*** up [we could redo the take]. I think it works pretty seamlessly in the end.

CraveOnline: It is. It was really very cool. How many takes of that did you do? Was there one where it screwed up right at the end and everyone was shouting at you?

Josh Hartnett: We didn’t have time for that. This film was shot on such a tight budget for what Guy pulled off… Four or five sets were running simultaneously. There were always [different] crews working in different places. So we would shoot part of a sequence, and then we would run to another place and shoot more stuff while they set up a different shot, and then we’d go back and we’d go back and finish the other sequence. There was no down time between shots, so we didn’t have time to screw up. When the challenges were bad, we just had to live up to it or the movie was going to fail. That was it.

CraveOnline: Do you like that kind of run and gun style of filmmaking? You’ve worked on bigger movies, and I imagine you had… Well, let me put it this way: was Black Hawk Down that hectic?

Josh Hartnett: No, Black Hawk Down was quite leisurely. Yeah, I haven’t done… You know, for the last few years I’ve been doing a lot of independent films. I find that when you’re on set and everybody’s making the decisions right there, and if something needs to be changed it can be changed immediately, as opposed taking a couple of days to [run it by] the studio, you can get a lot more accomplished a lot more quickly. And I like that. I like to be able to just keep moving, because what’s the point? Because being on a film set – I’m sure you’ve been on a lot of film sets – it’s fun, but after a while you want to just get it done and go home, have a little vacation. Let’s shoot it while we’re here. It was a lot of fun. This film was kind of ideal because we never stopped filming. We just filmed straight through. We filmed six days a week, and we were filming up to eighteen hours a day, and we were constantly in the gym while we were filming. Because I’m not like a physical dynamo; I can’t do that stuff on a daily basis. I had to like work out to keep fit. [Laughs] So it was just all work all the time, and I got to know those guys really well and we had a good time. It was just great.

CraveOnline: I’m glad you brought up the physical stuff. You seem to find yourself in a fair number of boxing related movies, or at least where you seem to do a fair amount of boxing. Were you into that before your first…? I guess Black Dahlia would be the first movie of that kind for you.

Josh Hartnett: You know, it was my first boxing movie and my first time in the ring. And I, yeah, I got in the ring and I became immediately obsessed and I started watching a lot of boxing films of full fights, I started to kind of over train. I kind of hurt myself training a couple of times. I just found it so interesting. […] Really, the dynamics of fighting and how the best fighters are so intelligent, the way they pick apart their opponents, it’s like… The only thing I’ve ever found that’s similar, in a one-on-one way, is tennis. But that’s obviously not as close quarters. But I really enjoyed it. So yeah, after I did Black Dahlia I read Resurrecting the Champ, [and] I wanted to be involved in it. I liked the boxing world at this point. But this film had nothing to do with boxing for me. I was just interested in what a bizarre world Guy was trying to pull off.

CraveOnline: But you were in a lot of fight scenes, and I noticed that your style was so different from Gatz’s… You seemed to be able to kill people by punching them in the face.

Josh Hartnett: I guess that’s what we’re trying to say. This guy throws such strong punches that he can… Guy [Moshe] had to come up with a supplement for guns. There are no guns in this world, so what is it that [The Drifter] can do? […] I like the way that he’s just a brawler. It was kind of fun.

CraveOnline: On the internet, the ever-so-reliable internet, it’s been said that you were offered the role of Superman several times but you’ve turned it down. Is that true at all?

Josh Hartnett: I’ve been offered a lot of things that I’ve decided not to do. You know, I was growing up when Superman [came along]. I was 21 when I shot Pearl Harbor, and I had a lot of opportunities but I more wanted to figure out who I was as a man first, to figure out where I really wanted to go with my life. I wanted to grow up a bit more and figure out what mattered to me. So I did a lot of stuff, but I did things that were really interesting to me and my development.

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  EXCLUSIVE: Josh Hartnett Talks Bunraku

Josh Hartnett discusses his role in Bunraku, working with this ensemble cast, future projects, and much more.

I have followed actor Josh Hartnett's career ever since the Halloween: H20 days for a couple of reasons. One is that we both hail from that frozen tundra of a state known as Minnesota, and two, he always makes intriguing choices as an actor from big-budget blockbusters like Pearl Harbor to indie's like Lucky Number Slevin and stylized genre fare like Sin City and 30 Days of Night. The actor's next project is the upcoming indie Bunraku, which will be available on VOD platforms September 1 before its theatrical release on September 30. Josh Hartnett stars as a mysterious unnamed drifter, who rolls into a town which has become terrorized by demons and other supernatural forces. I recently had the chance to speak with Josh Hartnett over the phone about this new movie. Here's what he had to say.

Can you talk about your initial reaction after reading such a unique script like this? Was anyone else attached to this when you were approached?

Josh Hartnett: Nobody else was involved except (director) Guy (Moshe), and I didn't read the script first, actually. I came up to New York and Guy showed me some drawings and artwork, some digital mock-ups, so I had a sense of what the visuals would be like before I read the script, which was helpful. I guess what sold me on the project, being the first guy involved, was that Guy was trying to pull off something I had never seen before. He had all the drive, the tenacity and the vision to pull it off. That being said, when we came to the first day of filming, I was still freaked out. It's such a bizarre world and you want to make sure it comes across well. There was so much to do, because we shot it in such a short period of time, that we couldn't really worry about anything for very long. We had to get in there and fight, literally.

It's based on this very old and obscure storytelling style, which the film is named after. Did you look into that at all as far as style goes?

Josh Hartnett: I don't think it literally resembles Bunraku puppetry, but it does have an artful style. The puppetry was developed to get people open to new space and reality so they can tell parables, melodramatic, comedic, parables. I think this film lets you off the hook in that way. It says, 'All right, this is not your typical world.' There are a lot of different rules. Yes, that's my opinion on how those two intertwine. I think as far as other films go, it was mainly influenced by films from the 60s, (Akira) Kurosawa's samurai films, (Sergio) Leone's westerns, Jean-Pierre Melville's New Wave films. I think a lot of that came into play when we were making this film.

You said you didn't have a lot of time to shoot this, but did you have a lot of time to go through fight training, or were you doing that on the set?

Josh Hartnett: No, we trained, because we didn't have time to screw up. We got to do a lot of preparation and choreography that had to be done quickly. We had to be as efficient as we could. A couple of months before we started filming, I started spending a lot of time with fight choreographer and a couple of the stunt guys. I was in great shape when Guy asked me to be in this film, so I had to work pretty hard to get there.

These fights are not your typical fight scenes you would see in an American or even a Hong Kong movie. There is a very unique style to them and they were a lot of fun to watch.

Josh Hartnett: Oh, yeah. I think a lot of time was spent trying to figure out how to make them deep and new.

This cast is interesting because you have Hollywood stars like yourself, Ron Perlman, Demi Moore, Woody Harrelson, and international stars like Gackt and Shun Sugata. Can you talk about what the vibe on the set was like, with this international cast?

Josh Hartnett: Yeah, the only person that I knew before we started filming was Demi. We had met through Bruce Willis who I did this movie called Lucky Number Slevin with. I had spent time hanging out with them and their brood. I was taken aback by how much fun everybody is. Woody is one of the easiest guys to get along with in the world. He's very well-respected and a very good actor, and he has great comedic timing. Ron, I have a lot of respect for. He's been in so many different kinds of films. He's just so underrated as an actor. I just want to see what he does. He was no disappointment. Kevin McKidd, I didn't know too much about. I had seen him in a few different films, but God, he just blew me away. He's just such a talented guy. Gackt, I had no sense of who he was or what he had accomplished. He's just tireless. We worked 18-hour days on this film, and he recorded an album at the same time. I don't know how he did it. Everybody who was surrounding us, the cast, were really on. They had to be, because, as I said before, we just didn't have a lot of time. We were shooting two sequences at a time, so yeah, we were very lucky with how this turned out.

Do you think those limitations actually helped the film though? Did it cause you to get more creative than you would have if you had a big studio behind you?

Josh Hartnett: Yeah, sometimes. Necessity is the mother of invention, and all that, but I can't say that we wouldn't want a little bit more time on this film, in certain points. We knew, coming in, that we were going to be under the gun and we just had to perform, we just had to do it. There was no choice. Sometimes we were shooting two of the biggest action sequences at the same. We'd shoot for an hour in one place and then bring the camera to another section of the studio to shoot this other sequences. You had to have all these choreographed scenes in your mind and you didn't want to end up going in the wrong direction and getting punched in the face. It was definitely challenging, but it was a lot of fun. Like I said, they were great people to work with, so it was fun going to work every day.

You have a new project coming up called Singularity which sounds very intriguing. Is there anything you can say about your character or the story of that project?

Josh Hartnett:Singularity I just wrapped, and I don't know what I'm going to do next quite yet. Singularity is based on a book which was originally published in India. It's a real guy, a Scottish guy, who, in the late 1700s, was stationed in India, near Mumbai, who found himself in the middle of a revolution, of sorts, between two different Indian kingdoms, and the Indian Trading Company, who was threatening to take over the country. It's a really interesting story, lots of sweeping romance and fight sequences. It's beautiful. It also has this element, set in 2020, where I play a wreck diver who finds this ring which has a connection to this other story, and there is a possibility of reincarnation which is brought up. It's a beautifully-written film and hopefully it will turn out really well. We just finished that and it hopefully it will come out next year, and I'm figuring out what I'm going to do next, if I do anything. I've been writing and directing a little bit, so I may go back to that, but I have no idea. For now I'm just enjoying August, the rest of the summer.

Excellent. Well, that's my time, Josh. Thank you so much for talking to me. I'm also a Minnesota-born guy as well.

Josh Hartnett: Oh, excellent. Are you up here now? The weather has been crazy.

Oh, no. I moved out to Hollywood about four years ago.

Josh Hartnett: Oh, all right. The weather's a bit more stable out there.

That's true. Well, thanks again, Josh.

Josh Hartnett: Great. Take care, man.

You can watch Josh Hartnett in Bunraku, which will be released on VOD formats on September 1, and in theaters on September 30.

Bunraku comes to theaters September 30th, 2011 and stars Woody Harrelson, Demi Moore, Josh Hartnett, Ron Perlman, Kevin McKidd, Jordi Mollà, Mark Ivanir, Gackt. The film is directed by Guy Moshe.

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