Josh Hartnett, Grown Into the Part

The actor whose face once hung on bedroom walls has become the kind of leading man the best directors call. Josh Hartnett shares the screen with Anne Hathaway and Dakota Johnson in *Verity*, and his next projects put him with two directors of real stature, Christopher Nolan and Oliver Stone. In a conversation with Vanity Fair, he talked about the film, about getting older in an industry that doesn't always make room for it, and about the adolescent idol status he has long since moved past. His co-stars and directors speak for themselves. This is a career taking its second, more considered act, built on the work and not just the looks. On the island we admire someone who stays with their craft long enough for the craft to catch up, and that seems to be the chapter Hartnett is in now.

With reporting from Vanity Fair.