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Charlie Hunnam Says He Lived in a Jail Cell, Alone, Without Food or Water For 8 Days While Filming His Prison Break Movie
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Allyson Shiffman
September 7, 2017 2:24 pm
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It seems Charlie Hunnam is angling to join Christian Bale and (the newly retired?) Daniel Day Lewis in the ranks of handsome British leading men who are known for suffering through absurdly unpleasant conditions for their craft. Shortly after the horror that was filming Lost City of Z (in which a beetle burrowed into his ear in the Amazon) the actor started shooting Papillon, which tells the true story of Henri Charrière, who suffered in and repeatedly escaped from a French Guiana prison dubbed “Devil’s Island” in the 1930s. Sounds pleasant.
While the prison break story has already been brought to the big screen in 1973 starring Steve McQueen as Charrière and Dustin Hoffman as a fellow convict who aids in his escape, this rendition (which costars Rami Malekin Hoffman’s role) presents a more brutally honest depiction of the horrid conditions these inmates faced. Never one to phone it in via green screen, Hunnam went to extremes for the role.
As Hunnam explained to W today, while promoting Papillon at the Toronto International Film Festival:
“The last sequence in the film is a 20-minute sequence in solitary [confinement] and by the point I was shooting that at the end of the film, my mind and body and f---ing will to live had all really shut down. I just stayed in that cell for eight days and I never ate and I didn’t drink any water… I just chain-smoked cigarettes for eight days. By the time I got out of there, I really felt like I’d lost connection to reality a little bit. I couldn’t go home to see my girlfriend, I had to go to England for a week to get my **** together. I thought, if I show up now after not seeing my girlfriend for four months, she’s going to be like, 'Dude.'”
To make matters worse, the actor’s recent roles have him on a yo-yo diet from hell. “It’s been really unpleasant, these last two films,” he said. “I’m naturally 180 and I got down to 145 for both films. I lost the weight easy for Lost City of Z, but then I had to do it for Papillon, like, eight months later and my body went into total f---ing crisis.”
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Unsurprisingly, Hunnam, while sipping a green juice, swore he’s not going to “do that again to myself for a while." Although, his next film Triple Frontier, directed by J.C. Chandor for Netflix, is described as "a thriller set in the notorious border zone between Paraguay, Argentina and Brazil where the Iguazu and Parana rivers converge." Hmm.
Meanwhile, if you need to get out of prison, Hunnam is your man. Just don’t expect him to stage an elaborate breakout. “I had to get my pal out of jail this week, so I am actually pretty nifty when people get arrested,” he said. “I’ve bailed many of my friends out of prison.”
Charlie Hunnam Reveals Romantic Surprise He Set Up for Girlfriend Morgana McNelis
Charlie Hunnam
and his girlfriend Morgana McNelis have been dating for over 11 years now and he still finds ways to keep the romance alive in their relationship!
The 37-year-old actor revealed the romantic thing he did for Morgana before leaving for a trip to the 2017 Toronto International Film Festival last week.
“I try to keep the romance on the reg,” Charlie told People. “I’ve been with my girlfriend 11 years, and as anyone knows, it’s been a long-term, fully monogamous relationship that requires work, a lot of work.”
“Before I came away to TIFF I ended up staying until 5 in the morning because I decided I was going to clean the entire house,” Charlie said, adding that he did “all the grocery shopping” and “all the laundry.”
“I thought it’d be nice for her to come home to everything immaculate and done,” he added. “I put flowers in the bedroom and in the kitchen, so she came home and was happy.”
Pictured inside: Charlie and his Papillon team stopped by the IMDb Studio hosted by the Visa Infinite Lounge on Friday (September 8) in Toronto, Canada.
Charlie Hunnam
and his girlfriend Morgana McNelis have been dating for over 11 years now and he still finds ways to keep the romance alive in their relationship!The 37-year-old actor revealed the romantic thing he did for Morgana before leaving for a trip to the 2017 Toronto International Film Festival last week.
“I try to keep the romance on the reg,” Charlie told People. “I’ve been with my girlfriend 11 years, and as anyone knows, it’s been a long-term, fully monogamous relationship that requires work, a lot of work.”
“Before I came away to TIFF I ended up staying until 5 in the morning because I decided I was going to clean the entire house,” Charlie said, adding that he did “all the grocery shopping” and “all the laundry.”
“I thought it’d be nice for her to come home to everything immaculate and done,” he added. “I put flowers in the bedroom and in the kitchen, so she came home and was happy.”
Pictured inside: Charlie and his Papillon team stopped by the IMDb Studio hosted by the Visa Infinite Lounge on Friday (September 8) in Toronto, Canada.
