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Jessica Hardy
Updated on March 06, 2026
William Jackson Harper played Josh in legendary director Ari Aster's "Midsommar," starring alongside fellow MCU stars Florence Pugh ("Black Widow") and Will Poulter ("Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3"). The film follows a group of college students who travel to Sweden to experience the annual midsummer festival.
Josh is a major catalyst in getting the group to accept their invitation, as he is writing his thesis on European midsummer traditions. When the group arrives at the Hårga commune, Josh is eager to learn more about the strange practices of the Swedish community.
He goes against direct orders from an elder, sneaking out at night to take pictures of their sacred texts. Unfortunately for Josh, this is the last audiences see of him, as a man wearing Mark's (Poulter) face hits him on the head and drags him away. Later, Christian (Jack Reynor) discovers the commune members planted Josh's severed leg in a flowerbed, confirming he met his end. On the bright side, overlooking the dismemberment, Josh got off relatively easy, as other characters suffered much more gruesome deaths.
In an interview with Collider, Harper revealed it wasn't until after he read the script and auditioned that he saw Aster's previous film, "Hereditary." From the reading, he knew the movie would be special, but after watching the director's debut film, he had to be a part of it.