CHARLIE HUNNAM IS BACK
Ranking His Best + Upcoming Apple Thriller: Shantaram
Charlie Hunnam has only 29 credits to his name, yet he’s still managed to make a lasting impression. His early career had many false starts, but he finally achieved recognition around 2008, playing Jax Teller on Sons of Anarchy. Since then, he hasn’t stopped. Despite starring in many films that haven’t completely gone well with the studios and the critics, he’s become one of Hollywood’s leading men.
Now that he’s in his ’40s, he wants to enter into a new phase of his career, one where he takes a step back from playing characters who love coming in with guns blazing. Now, he’ll happily settle for characters who are more vulnerable. “You stop playing the boxer, and you start playing the manager. It’s just the natural cycle of life,” he told GQ.
Hunnam hasn’t had a project since Guy Ritchie’s The Gentlemen in 2019, but now he has two new roles ahead. One in Last Looks, coming this year, and another in the new series Shantaram. But while we wait for them, let’s take a look at Hunnam’s best works.
8. Queer As Folk (1999-2000)
Hunnam played Nathan Maloney, one of the three gay men the series. Maloney is very self-confident, and he needs it while attending a school where he’s often teased. It was a minor role, but Hunnam made a lasting impression.
7. Triple Frontier (2019)
In a star-studded cast featuring Ben Affleck, Oscar Isaac, Pedro Pascal, Garrette Hedlund, and Hunnam, Triple Frontier follows a former U.S. Army Special Forces Operational group, Detachment-Delta, as it organizes a kidnapping of a South American crime lord.
6. The Lost City of Z (2016)
The Lost City of Z is a biographical film about the British explorer Percy Fawcett’s life, who attempts to find a lost city in the Amazon. But this isn’t like Indiana Jones or Tomb Raider. It’s about more than one person’s destiny.
5. Crimson Peak (2015)
In Guillermo del Toro’s gothic romance, Crimson Peak, Hunnam plays the heroine Edith Cushing’s childhood friend, Dr. Alan McMichael, who is clearly in love with her. When things start going south for Edith in England, McMichael shows up at the right moment to save her.
4. Pacific Rim (2013)
In Hunnam’s first collaboration with Guillermo del Toro, Pacific Rim, he played Raleigh Becket, a pilot of one of Anchorage’s Jaegers, the machines humans built to fight against the monsters rising out of the Earth’s surface. It’s another excellent action-adventure for Hunnam, and of course, his character comes out victorious.
3. King Arthur: Legend of the Sword (2017)
Even though King Arthur: Legend of the Sword lost millions of dollars, it’s still one of Hunnam’s best performances and his first collaboration with Guy Ritchie.
2. Sons of Anarchy (2008-2014)
Playing Jax Teller put Hunnam on the map. He stole every scene he appeared in, and it made filmmakers see his true potential. To this day, it is his most famous credit and the only one that has a massive kill streak.
1. The Gentlemen (2019)
In The Gentlemen, Hunnam’s second collaboration with Guy Ritchie, he played Raymond, the right-hand man of Mickey Pearson, London’s “sticky bush” kingpin. He does a phenomenal job trying to stop all sorts of shenanigans from ruining Pearson’s operation and packs a punch too. Buenos tardes Raymondo.
