Josh Hartnett explains why he took a step back from acting in blockbuster films like 'Pearl Harbor.'
is back -- but the truth is, he never went anywhere."The story is that I'm some recluse or malcontent or something," Hartnett tells ET's Katie Krause. "But I never felt that way... I was never inactive, I was just doing other things."
"So I started to produce my own films and I did smaller independent projects," he adds. "People took that as me throwing away a career or something, but it wasn't that at all, in my opinion. It was me just sort of finding myself." "My relationship with Hollywood is what it has always been -- just me doing the thing that I want to do and try to make sure that I can do it. It's difficult to make movies in this industry if you're trying to make personal films. Luckily, I have been able to come in contact, especially recently, with a lot of filmmakers and people that are on board with hiring me to play the kind of roles I want to play. So I've been kind of lucky these days.
"I flew up to Toronto and Victor showed me around all his old haunts," he recalls. "He showed me his old desk at the, he showed me a bunch of people that he used to work with, and brought me to his old house and showed me pictures of his kids. That really gave me a sense of who he was at this point of his life, and I was just about to have my first child, and was just immediately like, 'I have to play this guy.
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