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Charlie Hunnam makes his instrumentality connected tv connected Apple TV+'s Shantaram, premiering Oct. 14. Find retired wherefore this was yet the task to bring him backmost successful an exclusive chat with E! News.
Charlie Hunnam connected Perfecting Australian Accent for Shantaram
Charlie Hunnam proves that patience is simply a virtue.
The 42-year-old actor, who starred arsenic Jax Teller connected 7 seasons of FX's Sons of Anarchy from 2008 to 2014, returns to tv connected Apple TV+'s Shantaram, premiering Oct. 14.
An adaptation of Gregory David Roberts' 2003 caller of the aforesaid name, the bid is based connected real-life experiences of Roberts and centers connected Lin Ford (Hunnam), a convicted Australian slope robber who escapes from situation and flees to India.
Hunnam, who appeared successful movies similar 2019's The Gentlemen and 2016's The Lost City of Z after leaving Sons of Anarchy behind, exclusively told E! News that his tv adust spell was by design.
"I emotion long-form storytelling and I've been truly anxious to get backmost into television," Hunnam said. "I had a fewer opportunities, peculiarly implicit the past 5 years, to get progressive with things that would person been truly extraordinary."
However, Hunnam wanted to wait.
"Seven years ago, I work Shantaram and it became an obsession for maine to beryllium portion of the originative squad that would bring this adaptation to screen," helium revealed. "Luckily, 7 years later, that tenacity has paid disconnected and I'm the feline that got to play Lin."
The determination was risky, Hunnam admitted, but that's however passionate helium was astir the material.
"It was truly a balancing act," helium said of weighing his vocation options. "I knew I wanted to instrumentality to long-form and it was conscionable having the condemnation to judge that Shantaram would really would travel done and springiness maine the assurance to really crook down those different large opportunities that I got."
Once things really came to fruition, helium realized determination was inactive 1 large situation successful beforehand of him: Mastering an Australian accent.
The U.K.-born histrion joked, "My consciousness is I did a 75 percent bully occupation with it," but it wasn't for a deficiency of effort.
"I worked with a dialect coach. I recovered immoderate voices from Australia, notable radical that had done a batch of interviews that I could perceive to endlessly," helium explained. "I conscionable tried to enactment successful it arsenic overmuch arsenic possible. We started shooting successful Australia, which was truly beneficial due to the fact that I was surrounded by brainsick Australians and the brainsick sounds that they make. All of that being the case, it was inactive precise difficult."
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Hunnam vowed to stay steadfast successful his pursuit of perfection, saying, "I'll conscionable marque this declaration: if we're fortunate capable to travel backmost and bash play two, past possibly I'll get it 95 percent."
The archetypal 3 episodes of Shantaram driblet Oct. 14 connected Apple TV+.
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