Charlie Hunnam Speaks About His Role in SOA

Sons of Anarchy Season Two hit UK screens last week on Bravo, prior to this evenings episode two on Bravo at 10pm, Charlie Hunnam spoke to The Daily Gossip about his role in this hit US drama.

The Daily Gossip: Hello, Charlie, how are you?

Charlie: Good thank you; good what time is it over there for you?

The Daily Gossip: Um, it’s a quarter to 8 pm

Charlie: PM?

The Daily Gossip: Yeah and you?

Charlie: I’m in los angles so it’s a quarter to 10 AM for me.

The Daily Gossip: Alright, not bad.

Charlie: Not bad.

The Daily Gossip: I bet it’s not as cold as we are because we’re at minus 20 or something.

Charlie: No where close. It’s actually sunny and beautiful outside it’s been raining for a few days but it dried up today and it’s looking pretty gorgeous

The Daily Gossip: Yes, that’s good. Now you’re originally from the UK, aren’t you?

Charlie: Yeah.

The Daily Gossip: You’ve lived in the states for how long now?

Charlie: For ten years.

The Daily Gossip: Alright, that long?

Charlie: Yeah. I came over. I had an opportunity to come over at the very, very beginning of my career. I’d done a show in England called Queer as Folk and it got a little bit of attention out in America so I came over. I came over and just never left. I always intended and still intend to go to move back to England at some point but I didn’t think there was any point in moving back though while I still had to search and there was such a big fight to get every job. I want to move back where I am in the position where I could just get a script and choose my jobs at will but I certainly haven’t gotten to that point yet.

The Daily Gossip: Do you recommend that there is anything British about you that sort of highlights where you’re born?

Charlie: Yeah. I guess. Yeah. I think that the British dress, for the whole, a little smarter than Americans do. And so when I bring my clothes over from England or when I’m back in England, I tend to particularly, not so much from here now, but when I go back to England I realize that I walk around most of the time in just a hoodie and jeans and then I start to get the peacoats on again and the shoes and the good shirts and stuff like that but I don’t know if it’s America in general, or just the kind of culture of young people specifically but statically, I guess it’s a little sloppier.

The Daily Gossip: That’s true. You were doing films mostly but what interested you in Sons of Anarchy

Charlie: I think that film right now is in an awful state. I mean Hollywood is really a total disaster right now. There’s no money in the independent world anymore. There’s really only like very kind of big studio films that were getting made and that’s never been what I’ve been interested in doing. I mean, of course, the studio system does make some pretty wonderful films, but there are very few and far between and the competition is very fierce for those films. And so I just responded, I just thought the writing was of very, very high quality and I thought that the idea was original and that Kurt was a serious guy, like a real story teller, who was attempting to do and a show of some quality and little class about it rather than just turning out the same old garbage. I was actually feeling very, very frustrated. I was actually thinking about quitting acting.

The Daily Gossip: Really?

Charlie: Yeah. I wasn’t able, I so scarcely found anything that I was interested in and that inevitably didn’t get it. So I had actually taken a couple of years off and written a screen play because I just needed to do something where I felt like I had a little bit of control over my life. I wasn’t just waiting for the phone to ring everyday. And then, it came to the end and I just actually finished writing the screen play and then I got sent the script of Sons of Anarchy and like I said, just really responded. I thought the quality of writing was really high and so I signed on.

The Daily Gossip: Well that was the perfect timing then.

Charlie: Yeah. No, it was the perfect timing and it’s funny how life works out like that sometimes

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