Charlie Hunnamwants to take another stab at playing King Arthur.
During a conversation onAndy Cohen‘sSiriusXM Radio showon Monday, the actor, 39, opened up about his 2017 action flick King Arthur: Legend of the Sword — particularly on how the would-be blockbuster failed to find an audience upon its release.
“I’d like to go back toKing Arthurbecause there’s a lot of things went wrong during that and a lot of things that were out of our control,” he explained, “and I just don’t think we ended up matching the aspiration.”
He added: “We just didn’t quite make the movie we wanted.”
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In 2018, Hunnam — who notablyturned downthe role of Christian Grey in theFifty Shadesmovies — told theBoston Heraldthat careers inevitably come with highs and lows.
“When something comes out and everybody hates it and it does no business, I mean it’s certainly a bummer, but it really actually doesn’t have that great of an affect,” he said at the time. “… It’s a hard thing really to explain, but I don’t feel a deep connection with an end result of a film.
He added: “I don’t watch films once they’re finished, actually. I just am 99 percent focused on the process of actually making the film.”
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Hunnampreviously told PEOPLEabout the rigorous fitness routine he followed while makingKing Arthur, which required lots of stunts and sword-wielding.
“There was just an enormous amount of fighting. Some of the sequences would take five or six days to shoot, so every day, 14 hours a day fighting,” Hunnam said. “The fitness level that I achieved during the course of that — I almost felt like I was a professional athlete, on that level.”
Although he might have wanted to hit the spa after the lengthy days of shooting, Hunnam instead opted for more gym time.
“I had to keep training,” he said. “I’d go the gym after work no matter what, so it wasn’t an enormous amount of salt baths or anything going on.”
The Gentlemenis in theaters on Friday, Jan. 24.
source: people.com
