Actor Josh Hartnett hospitalized after collision with Newfoundland police car

Actor Josh Hartnett was reportedly injured and sent to hospital after a collision with a Royal Newfoundland Constabulary (RNC) police vehicle that caused “significant damage” in St. John’s last week.

The 47-year-old actor and star of Hollywood blockbusters like Pearl Harbour and Black Hawk Down was identified as a passenger in an SUV driven by a 59-year-old man that collided with an RNC patrol vehicle in the city’s east end shortly before 1 a.m. on Thursday, according to CBC sources.

The RNC said both the SUV occupants “were sent to hospital with what is believed to be minor injuries,” and the officer went “as a precaution.”

Susan Patricola, Hartnett’s publicist, told the Canadian Press he was “thoroughly checked” before being sent on his way.

The crash is under investigation and police are seeking video footage from the area.

National Post has contacted the RNC and Patricola for more information.

The CBC source said Hartnett was on his way home after being on set that night.

The actor is in Newfoundland and Labrador to shoot a Netflix set in a small fishing outport in the province that is under siege by a mysterious sea creature. Hartnett, in a lead role, plays “a hard-bitten fisherman must fight to protect his family, his community, and his vanishing way of life” in the still untitled series, according to Netflix.

He stars alongside Canadian actor Mackenzie Davis (Speak No Evil, Terminator: Dark Fate), Charlie Heaton (Stranger Things), and Labrador actor Willow Kean, among others.

Filming of the six-episode limited series in the capital city and other locations on the island portion of the province has been underway since early July and is expected to wrap by Oct. 12, as reported by Hollywood News North . Netflix hasn’t announced a date for the show’s premiere.

Hartnett has recently returned to major roles in Hollywood after more than a decade out of the spotlight, and played the lead in 2024’s Trap following a role in the 2023 Oscar-winning Oppenheimer. He also appeared in two episodes of the Emmy-winning The Bear this year.

Another upcoming role alongside Dakota Johnson and Anne Hathaway in Verity, a film adaptation of author Colleen Hoover’s “gothic, psychological thriller” of the same name, The Wrap reported.

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