Two decades ago, Joshua Leonard was a 21-year-old wanderer, working in experimental film production in New York, in the final throes of drug addiction, and uncertain what he wanted to do in life.
His father taught theater, but Leonard never considered acting as a career; on a whim, he pursued a role in a microbugeted found-footage horror movie.
It was called “The Blair Witch Project,” and it went on to gross nearly $250 million worldwide on a $60,000 budget.“I came into my career sideways,” the 47-year-old said in New York last week, a few days before his latest role, as a psychopathic stalker in Steven Soderbergh’s “Unsane,” hit theaters.
It was a brisk, sunny afternoon in Greenwich Village.
He was sitting on a bench in Washington Square Park, a few blocks from the apartment where he was staying while his wife, Alison Pill, acted in the Broadway production of “Three Tall Women” alongside Laurie Metcalf.
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