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Getting close to Josh

Posted by Megan Conner at 09:15 on 25 Sep 2008

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Mentally or physically, at some point, you’ve probably made a wish list of celebrities you would love (in your wildest dreams) to meet/date/marry/snog (hey, I’m keeping it clean here). I have, anyway, and here is how it goes:

1. Leonardo DiCaprio (circa Titanic or Blood Diamond - not fussy)
2. Josh Hartnett (Pearl Harbour)
3. Brad Pitt (before he got grey and grew a beard)

But seeing as I’m not Gisele/Scarlett/Angelina, just a junior journalist trying to make an honest living, none of these aforementioned – and quite wild - dreams have come true. But on Friday, I did have an opportunity to get up close (and personal? I wish!) with my number two, Josh, when I got my hands on tickets to see him perform in the new West End play, Rain Man.

Bizarrely (or not so bizarrely; it’s brilliant) Rain Man is one of my favourite films. Everybody seems to get a bit tragic with me when I rave, ‘Oh, it’s so funny!’ because Dustin Hoffman’s character is autistic. But really it is a funny script (and a very heart-warming one too), and just as funny and heart-warming with Josh reading it on stage.

Whenever I go to the theatre I do make a point of checking out everyone’s American accents (the play Fat Pig doesn’t sport the best), but when you have a true Hollywood star performing in front of you, hey, no need. I was in awe of his performance – not just because there are semi-naked moments – but because he delivered just like he would on the big screen (and they all get a million takes). If I didn’t know better, I would have nodded in agreement with the theatre critic sitting beside me, who cooed (and this is theatre critic suicide), ‘Oh, he’s just as good live!’