
Josh Hartnett, who stars as sheriff Eben Oleson in the upcoming horror film 30 Days of Night, told SCI FI Wire that he tried to talk the producers into giving him a beard at the beginning of the film, but he was overruled. "The turmoil of the beard really comes down to, they wanted me clean-shaven at the beginning of the film," Hartnett said in an interview at the press junket in New York. "And it would have been a lot easier had I been able to grow as much as I can grow, which is kind of pathetic, and then add pieces as we moved further along. I mean, it is Alaska. It is cold there."