Hayley Mills Talks Hunting Down Josh Hartnett, Her Return to Film in M. Night Shyamalan’s ‘Trap’
Hayley Mills didn’t think she would star in a film ever again — but when M. Night Shyamalan comes knocking, you answer.
“It was lovely to be on a movie set again,” the British actress tells The Hollywood Reporter. “There’s more space, you can take deeper breaths… And certainly, on a movie of Night’s, you don’t rush.”
Most will know Mills as a child star, whose early career blossomed with leading roles in movies like Tiger Bay (1959), Pollyanna (1960) and The Parent Trap (1961). Now, at 78 years old, she takes a turn into a genre much darker: hunting down a psychopathic serial killer Cooper (Josh Hartnett, no less) who, upon taking his teenage daughter Riley (Ariel Donoghue) to a concert, finds himself caught in an enormous, FBI-orchestrated trap.
That’s the film. Trap is M. Night Shyamalan’s latest piece of work and, releasing in theaters on Friday, features...
“It was lovely to be on a movie set again,” the British actress tells The Hollywood Reporter. “There’s more space, you can take deeper breaths… And certainly, on a movie of Night’s, you don’t rush.”
Most will know Mills as a child star, whose early career blossomed with leading roles in movies like Tiger Bay (1959), Pollyanna (1960) and The Parent Trap (1961). Now, at 78 years old, she takes a turn into a genre much darker: hunting down a psychopathic serial killer Cooper (Josh Hartnett, no less) who, upon taking his teenage daughter Riley (Ariel Donoghue) to a concert, finds himself caught in an enormous, FBI-orchestrated trap.
That’s the film. Trap is M. Night Shyamalan’s latest piece of work and, releasing in theaters on Friday, features...
- 8/2/2024
- by Lily Ford
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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