Charlie Hunnam
Charlie Hunnam
Charles Matthew "Charlie" Hunnam is an English actor, screenwriter, and producer...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth10 April 1980
CityNewcastle, England
fun villain
It's generally more fun playing the villain
getting-back-up down-and matter
Everybody, at some point in their life, has fallen down and not felt like getting back up, but you have to, no matter how difficult it is.
reality people gypsy
Most people that work in [show] business, if they're not gypsies by nature, become gypsies, just because of the reality of this business.
mean years guy
I mean I’m 16 and 17 years wiser now. So if I could do it when I was 18 with a guy, I can certainly do it at 33 with a lady.
character should-have stories
I don't just look at things as an actor. I've also written several films, so I look at it as a storyteller and I know if something worked and should have been in there for the benefit of the story and the benefit of the character.
children thinking escaping
I was a slightly melancholy child and I think films were a way of escaping for me.
bond business dreamt meet movies people starting
You go through this business and you meet people that you bond with, and you get to go make movies with them. It's wonderful. What I've always dreamt of, in my career, is to have a brotherhood of collaborators, and go in and out of working with them. I'm just starting to get that, and it's really lovely.
felt life months needed quit single wrote
Right before I got 'Sons of Anarchy,' I actually quit acting for 18 months and didn't read a single script, and I wrote a film. I felt like I needed to do something that I had control over, as an artist, and also just do something where I felt like I had some control over my life, as just a human, out in the world.
bit dancing good musical novel playing singing true wary
I was a little bit wary of playing Nicholas. In the script, which I think is true of the novel and the film, he's the only character not singing and dancing in a musical style. Playing someone who is the personification of good is a little difficult.
exhausting fight physically punch quite specific time took
I think we all kind of thought those would be the most fun, the fight scenes. And they were the most challenging. Physically exhausting and complicated and kind of very specific and intricate, so they just took a long time to film. I think that we all thought that we'd get to set, have a punch up and we'd get it on film and be wrapped, but it wasn't quite like that.
afternoon basic evening fight fitness hours lads morning next people rehearse start strength throwing training
He had most of those lads throwing up he was working them so hard, ... We did basic strength and fitness training for about two hours ... and then we'd start choreographing all of the fight sequences and then we'd go into the afternoon and rehearse and then go out in the evening and start drinking, which is probably why the next morning people were throwing up.
absolute guy nice
I've got to tell you, he's a very nice, kind person, ... It's boring. He's just an absolute professional. He just comes, he's very professional, he's just very very nice and just a nice guy to be around.