Josh Hartnett may be playing the leading man in Verity, but not everyone in his inner circle was convinced he was the right fit for the role. As the actor prepares to star alongside Anne Hathaway and Dakota Johnson in the big-screen adaptation of Colleen Hoover’s bestselling thriller, his 12-year-old goddaughter had one particularly brutal reaction to his casting. For a young fan of the book, Hartnett apparently wasn’t exactly the Jeremy Crawford she had pictured.

And her verdict? The actor was apparently somewhere around a thousand years too old for the part.

Josh Hartnett recently came on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, where he revealed that his 12-year-old goddaughter, who is a fan of Colleen Hoover’s novel, was just not on board with him playing  Jeremy Crawford.

"You cannot be Jeremy. You are like a thousand years old," Hartnett shared what her goddaughter told him when she found out about the casting.

Hartnett’s story as he shared on the Fallon show, is particularly funny because the actor himself has become one of the most recognizable faces in the film’s star-studded cast. He plays Jeremy opposite Hathaway’s Verity Crawford and Dakota Johnson’s Lowen Ashleigh in the psychological thriller.

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But while his goddaughter may have had strong opinions about who should play Jeremy, Hartnett is confident the movie will give audiences something else to argue about once the credits roll.

During an appearance on This Morning on September 25, Josh Hartnett teased one of the film’s biggest talking points: its deliberately ambiguous ending.

“And the point is it’s kind of an ambiguous ending. So you get to debate with your friends afterward, who you believe, which is fun. You don’t get that often in a Hollywood film,” he said.

That uncertainty is particularly fitting for Verity, a story built around competing versions of the truth. The film follows Lowen Ashleigh, a struggling writer hired to complete the bestselling book series of injured author Verity Crawford, only for Lowen to uncover disturbing material that raises questions about what really happened inside the Crawford family.

Rather than neatly settling the debate, Hartnett says the movie wants viewers to leave the theater and start arguing about it themselves. And with a story like Verity, that may be exactly the point.

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