Статья, как Джош занимался боксом перед съёмками и немного о фильме Черная орхидея:
JOSH HARTNETT’S ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT
Just when he was becoming the next It boy, Josh Hartnett put the brakes on stardom and checked out of Hollywood. If his groundbreaking role in Brian De Palma’s The Black Dahlia is any indication, this is no ordinary comeback
By Alex Pappademas; Photographs by Terry Richardson
He’s explaining why, before shooting The Black Dahlia, he felt it was necessary to learn how to box—not to learn how to look like a boxer but to learn how to box. In the film, based on James Ellroy’s novel and directed by Brian De Palma, Hartnett plays Dwight “Bucky” Bleichert, a former 1940s prizefighter turned police detective, a man whose psyche was hammered into shape inside a boxing ring, “fighting no-name opponents in a no-man’s-land division.”
So for five months, Hartnett worked out with Sankara Frazier, the founder and chief trainer of a Minneapolis boxing club called the Circle of Discipline, putting in three- and four-hour days and keeping his weight at 175 on the dime, like a real light heavyweight training for a shot at the title.
This would appear to be due diligence if Dahlia were a boxing movie. It is not. The film features only one actual boxing scene—a fight between Bleichert and his partner, played by Aaron Eckhart, which is bloody and thematically crucial but unfolds mostly in montage—and therefore Hartnett’s half-year Million Dollar Baby apprenticeship more precisely resembles craziness. But when you’re a recovering teen idol, and you have spent years trying to prove your fitness for grown-man parts, and a legendary director hires you to play an obsessed cop in a lurid crime film whose script specifies that your character used to do a little boxing, you do not mess around. You tape up your knuckles and step into the Circle of Discipline.
I ask Hartnett if all that training made him feel like he could have taken a real fight.
“Sure,” he says. “But I would have lost.” (He caught a couple of wild left hooks from Eckhart when they squared off on-set. That was enough.)
It would have been an interesting career decision for you, I say.
“Mickey Rourke did it, didn’t he?” Hartnett says.
Yes, I reply. And he really messed up his beautiful grille in the process.
“Yeah,” Hartnett says almost dreamily. “But now he’s got a whole new career, as the kind of questionable dude.”
You get the feeling Josh Hartnett would love to play a few questionable dudes. That he would like to be thought of as shifty, sketchy, or unreliable—or at least as the type of actor who can project those qualities convincingly; that from now on, he wants his career to be about exploring these dark places, and that this is why he was not merely willing but on some level eager to be punched in the face by Aaron Eckhart, signifying as it did his commitment to the character and his willingness to suffer for his art.
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память на ФИО Джоша Хартнетта отдыхает у многих наших глянцевых журналов...читаешь и диву даешься, как можно рассуждать о человеке, фамилию которого не в состоянии правильно написать... 
но я увлеклась...не по теме...это наболевшее...
и не скажешь ведь,что создатели не старались! Атмосфера 40-х годов воссоздана бесподобно! но ,наверное ,создатели слишком увлеклись картинкой,а на остальное их не хватило ...Ведь Брайан де Пальма не новичок , но видно,что упустил он очень многое. Про сценарий просто молчу,там одни дыры.
мне нравятся все сцены, в которых он вместе с Суонк, ему идет этот цинизм ,он выглядит правдоподобнее с ней,чем со Скарлетт.
Идея кажется была не плохая но что то пошло не так....
та да)))
сто пудова.
