Los Angeles, Dec 17 || British star Charlie Hunnam, who has worked in projects such as Sons of Anarchy and Monster: The Ed Gein Story and Green Street to name a few, says he still dreams of fulfilling his original ambition of being a writer-director, despite his long and successful acting career.
Speaking on the Prestige Junkie podcast, Hunnam reflected on how his career took an unexpected turn after an early acting role led him away from filmmaking and into acting full-time.
Talking about his early ambitions, he said: “I went to film school wanting to be a writer/director. I spent all my entire youth watching films, and thinking about film and storytelling and always thought I would be a director.”
Hunnam explained that his path shifted after he was cast in Byker Grove, the long-running children’s television series filmed in Newcastle, North East England, where he grew up.
He said: “And then I got an opportunity somewhat randomly, although I don’t think these things are random, to do an acting role in a show called Byker Grove, which was a children’s TV show where I shot in Newcastle, where I’m from.”