Josh Hartnett Has Regrets Not Making 'Brokeback Mountain' & Kissing Joaquin Phoenix

Josh Hartnett has some regrets about some movie roles he didn't play. After star-making turns in "Pearl Harbor" in 2001 and "Black Hawk Down," He was courted to play not one but two superheroes.

"Hartnett's decision to turn down several likely career-defining roles – most famously, a three-picture deal as�Superman�and an offer from Christopher Nolan for�Batman�– has raised eyebrows ever since," reports the Aussie new site new.com.au.

Hartnett also confirmed a old Hollywood rumor – that he was to star in one of the most important films of the early 2000s. "Unfortunately, I was going to do�'Brokeback Mountain,'" he told the news site. "It was a different film altogether, it was me and Joaquin Phoenix. But they went on to do it with Heath (Ledger) and Jake (Gyllenhaal)."

The final film, which won Oscars for best director and screenplay, but lost best picture to "Crash" in what is considered one of the biggest gaffes in Academy Award history, became a cultural milestone.

"It opened tons of doors," Gyllenhaal told Willie Geist during an interview for�"Sunday Today."�"It was crazy. It was amazing. It's defined my career in different ways."

For Hartnett, not starring in the film is a career disappointment even more than not playing Batman or Superman.

"I've always wanted to kiss Joaquin, so that's my biggest regret," Hartnett joked.

He did, though, get to kiss hunkie Reeve Carney on the Showtime series "Penny Dreadful." In the first iteration of this horror series, Hartnett played an American werewolf in Victorian London and Carney played Dorian Gray, a character from the Oscar Wilde novella, with a wide sexual appetite. Towards the end of the fourth episode of the first season, Hartnett and Carney have an unexpected and very hot sexual encounter.

Watch the moment in the clip below at the 3 minute mark: