Josh Hartnett claims witnessing poverty while making ‘Black Hawk Down’ made him "rethink" his own life.
The 35-year-old actor pursued roles in blockbusters before making the 2001 action film, which was based on the Battle of Mogadishu in Somalia, and he’s confessed that seeing children that had been intentionally injured so they could earn more money as beggars made him question his own path.
Quizzed on whether he’d found it hard to work on ‘Black Hawk Down’, he said: "Honestly it wasn’t that traumatic for me, but being in a place with that amount of poverty, the only real opportunity that people had to make money was to beg.
"So children were being maimed when they were very young to make them better beggars and it just forced to me to rethink what I was doing a little bit."
The ‘Penny Dreadful’ star left California to return to his hometown where he focused on reconnecting with his family and friends.
Josh told ITV’s ‘This Morning’: "I moved back to Minnesota after doing ‘Black Hawk Down’, and that was just a few films that I was working on didn’t come together in the way that we had hoped they would or in the time we had hoped they would.
"So I went back and wrote a screenplay and I got back together with my high-school girlfriend actually and just spent time with my friends and family back home."
Josh Hartnett was forced to ‘rethink’ his life
