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Josh Hartnett Always Kills It

Eleven essential performances that prove the former teen heartthrob is more than a pretty face (though it is a very pretty face).

The rip-roaring war film may not have garnered the sort of crossover awards success that Gladiator did, but it puts Hartnett at the center of a star-studded ensemble including the likes of Ewan McGregor, Jason Isaacs, Tom Hardy, Orlando Bloom, and Hugh Dancy. At the center are Eva Green as the enigmatic Vanessa Ives, Timothy Dalton as explorer Malcolm Murray (who bears a strong resemblance to pulp icon Allan Quatermain), and Hartnett as Ethan Chandler, an American expat running from a mysterious past. Penny Dreadful is part of the loose lineage of recent horror-television classics Hannibal and Evil, shows that will easily pivot from ludicrous displays of violence to transcendent exchanges between actors articulating the pain, joy, and horror that comes with being alive.

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