Josh Hartnett‘s diving into scary moments in his earlier … revealing he left Hollywood because of he was being stalked — along with by an individual he says as quickly as arrived at his location with a gun.

The actor spoke with The Guardian via Zoom from his property in Hampshire, England … a sprawling countryside the place he lives alongside along with his partner partly because of dwelling in L.A. started to essentially really feel too dangerous.

JH says it isn’t the one objective he left L.A. about 20 years up to now … nevertheless, it didn’t help that folk started exhibiting up at his residence.

Hartnett says these had been straight-up stalking incidents … together with {that a} man as quickly as “confirmed up at one in every of my premieres with a gun, claiming to be my father. He ended up in jail.”

Principally, Hartnett nervous he’d get crushed by fame … and decided to fluctuate his life sooner than Hollywood may end it.

Clearly Hartnett nonetheless makes movement footage … along with M. Night time time Shyamalan’s “Lure” — a psychological horror-thriller coming out this week the place he performs a serial killer who has to flee a stadium-wide police operation, a really perfect operate for getting throughout the ideas of his private stalkers.

Hartnett says his career trajectory’s merely efficient with him FWIW … together with he spends a ton of time alongside along with his children he in some other case most likely wouldn’t have.