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Charlie Hunnam Reveals the Very Personal Role He's Writing For Himself

Feb 21 2017 - 7:35pm

Charlie Hunnam [1] has added a very personal project to his professional plate. During a Facebook Live interview with Entertainment Weekly on Tuesday, the actor revealed that he's developing a project about his father [2] and plans to star in it. "I'm going to develop a story about my father and play my father in a film, which is really, really exciting and something that I've thought and dreamed about for a long time," he said. Hunnam's father, who passed away in 2013, was a scrap-metal dealer, and Hunnam called the project "a biographical family drama about love and conflict between ambition and family."

That theme — the conflict between ambition and family — is one that Hunnam also mentioned recently in relation to his own life. In an interview with Total Film, he said that he's been thinking about his work-life balance [3], mentioning his "incredibly understanding girlfriend," Morgana McNelis. "If we're going to start talking about having children and getting married," he said, "then I'm going to have to figure out a way to balance that a little bit more effectively."

It's certainly been a busy, work-heavy couple of years for Hunnam, who's starring in not one, but two of Spring's big releases: King Arthur [4] and The Lost City of Z [5].


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