Did you know Charlie Hunnam started off his acting career in Byker Grove 25 years ago and told us at the Rebel Moon UK Premiere that he fancies going back to the reboot of the series, which will be created by Ant and Dec! Report by Jonesl. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00 - You look so great. - Oh, do I?
00:02 - How are you? - Thank you.
00:03 - Also, you've done so well. - That's a good way to start this interview, isn't it?
00:06 - Yeah, you've done so well. Come and date some fucking Grover, mate.
00:09 Look at what you need now. - Right?
00:11 - Let's come and date some fucking Grover. You know that, right?
00:13 - Fucking Grover's? - I'm going to tell him to answer Dick and make him come back.
00:15 - Are they going to be on it? - They're directing it.
00:18 - I didn't get a call. - Can we get you in?
00:21 - I've got to call my agent. What, answer Dick? - Did you ask him to die?
00:24 - That's funny. I don't remember. It was 25 years ago.
00:27 - 25 years ago? I don't think I had an important enough character to have a death.
00:32 You know, I was supposed to play a big character in it,
00:35 so I auditioned for a big character and didn't know at all what I was doing,
00:38 and then they sort of, you know, took pity on me and gave me this little character.
00:43 So I don't think there was much really to bring back at this point.
00:46 - Look at him now. He's on a poster with his hair in a man bun.
00:50 Look at that. - Can't hate the man bun.
00:52 - Best man bun in the biz. - Do you know what?
00:54 I did the man bun two projects in a row, and I was just going to style it out.
00:58 I was going to say, you know what? That's me now.
01:00 I'm like the geezer with the man bun. I'm taking that place in Hollywood.
01:04 But both my agent and my partner said, it's time to get rid of the man bun, bro.
01:12 It's not a good look. - It's coming back a little bit.
01:14 It's coming back a little bit. - Yeah, it's growing a little bit.
01:17 It's growing a little bit. Do you know what I did?
01:19 I took my hair and I put it into a ponytail and I just cut it off with a knife.
01:23 No, actually with a pair of scissors.
01:25 But anyway, I did try it with a knife and I couldn't do it with a knife,
01:28 so I did it with a pair of my partner's scissors,
01:30 and then my hair fell down into a perfect bob, and it was a catastrophe.
01:35 - Can we say that story again? Just say that Ed Sheeran used a knife,
01:37 or like, I don't know, Prince Charles or King Charles now.
01:40 - King Charles. - Make it elaborate a bit more.
01:42 - Right. I'm not fancy enough to get a haircut from King Charles.
01:46 Let's be honest.
01:47 - I want to talk about the fact that you are now here.
01:49 You've been through Hollywood. How's it been?
01:51 Are you enjoying it? Is this what you want to do?
01:54 - In what regard?
01:56 - You're doing so many huge things. You're now living your dream, aren't you?
02:01 - Yeah, I am. I actually am in a very strange way.
02:06 I'm sort of taking stock a little bit.
02:10 25 years into my career right now. I'm having an anniversary this year.
02:14 I am doing what I wanted to do, and I've achieved what I wanted to achieve
02:18 to a certain extent, but I'm doing a big pivot in my career right now.
02:21 Stepping away, really, from acting and really focusing on writing.
02:26 I've sold and set up a few projects that I have to basically--
02:30 I've spent all of this year writing, apart from, obviously,
02:32 the five months that the WGA was down, because I'm a WGA member.
02:36 So that's the future for me. I'm still going to act.
02:39 I'm attached to acting, all of the things that I'm writing.
02:42 But I went to film school. I'd always wanted to be a filmmaker.
02:46 Now in my mid-40s, it's time to get my act together
02:49 and stop coasting on my devastating good looks
02:53 and actually try to use my brain for a second.
02:56 - If you're not going to cast yourself as the main man,
02:58 who would you want to cast as the main man or woman?
03:00 Who's your number one?
03:02 - Oh, goodness. That's a good one. That is a good one.
03:06 - We're going to go aim high, right?
03:08 - Yeah. Let's say Tom Hardy. Let's say Tom Hardy.
03:12 I do have something that I wrote that I thought about him a lot.
03:16 I didn't know if he would do it, so I didn't get myself married to the idea of it.
03:20 But, yeah, I'm a big Hardy fan.
03:23 In terms of the English boys, Barry as well.
03:26 I never know how to say his second name. Kioffin? Kioffin?
03:28 - Kiogan?
03:29 - Kiogan. Sorry, Barry. We just butchered that.
03:33 - You've got to see yourself out.
03:35 - Yeah. So, yeah. That's that.
03:37 - That's incredible.
03:38 - Sorry. I'm a bit boring. I feel a bit boring in this interview.
03:42 - I'll tell you what. We can end this with a good note.
03:44 Have you got a message for Ant and Dec?
03:46 - Call me Ant and Dec. I mean, they should, right?
03:50 - Yeah. You can still say Y.I. Man, right?
03:52 - Y.I. Man. I will.
03:54 - Thank you so much.
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