Josh Hartnett Recalls Meeting Wife Tamsin Egerton as Costars on 'the Worst Movie Either of Us Have Ever Made'

Josh Hartnett and Tamsin Egerton, who share four kids, married in 2021

Josh Hartnett is looking back at falling in love with wife Tamsin Egerton.

The Trap actor, 46, opened up about how his romance with Egerton, 35, began while speaking with his former O costar Julia Stiles for Interview magazine. Hartnett said he met his wife in "the most Hollywood way imaginable."

"We played husband and wife in the worst movie either of us have ever made. No offense to the director, it’ll remain nameless," Hartnett said. "It just got lost in post-production. We were shooting here in London and both had significant others, and both realized that wasn’t going to work because we really liked each other."

"So I broke up with my girlfriend, she broke up with her boyfriend, and then after we stopped filming, we started to date," he added, recalling that he and Egerton largely remained long-distance between New York and London at the start of their relationship.

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"Then she came out to the States and we went on a long road trip where she met my parents and it kept going," Hartnett said. "And then she kept staying with me, and I kept staying with her. We were living a lot of the time between houses together, and then she got pregnant and then we got married."

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Hartnett and Egerton met making the 2013 movie The Lovers. They now share four kids. The actor and Egerton tend keep their relationship low-key; PEOPLE confirmed in March 2022 that they had married secretly in London in November 2021.

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Hartnett recently opened up about the key to his marriage while speaking with PEOPLE about Trap, his new movie with director M. Night Shyamalan.

"I think you have to give more than you feel you receive," he said. "That's the biggest thing. If everybody feels like they're giving about 80 percent to the relationship and the other person's only giving 20, then you're probably both giving 50."

"You have to really give as much as you can because innately, as human beings we're a little bit selfish," he added. "We think we see all the good things that we do, but we don't really notice necessarily all the good things that the other person's doing all the time."

Trap is in theaters now.

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