Charlie Hunnam Interview for King Arthur: Legend of the Sword

By: Lynn Barker

Hunky actor Charlie Hunnam is a sword fighting dynamo in King Arthur: Legend of the Sword, a cool, action-packed adaptation of the King Arthur legends about a young man growing up on the streets who was the only person who could draw the magical sword Excalibur from a stone in order to claim his rightful place as King of England.

 Arthur (Charlie) pulls Excalibur from the stone 

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In this interview Charlie talks about how, as a kid, he learned about King Arthur, how hard he worked to get enough stamina for endless sword fighting scenes in the film and how, although born in England, he had to re-learn how to speak with just the right English dialect. Check it out!

Q: Charlie, what attracted you to this role?

• Charlie: It was two-fold. I had grown up with the Arthurian legends and, at a point in my life where (I started to think) that I wanted to become an actor, John Boorman’s movie Excalibur was one of the films that I found myself watching over and over again. It was a film that I really studied and it captured my imagination. I’m talking about very young, six, seven, eight when you realize that there is more than just watching the story play out, that there is an actual process behind it.  
• It formed my playtime as well. I’d play Arthur and Merlin and try to get my brother to engage me in sword fights. Then I’ve also been a huge fan of (director) Guy Ritchie my whole adult life so the two of those things together just seemed very, very exciting to me.

 On the way to challenge the false king 

Courtesy of Warner Bros.

Q: How would you describe this version of the Arthur legend?

• Charlie: I would say it’s a young, cool, irreverent, rock n’ roll rendition of the Arthurian legend. There is a lot of banter and fun but, at the center of it, (it’s) exploring the myths we tell ourselves and how we define ourselves as human beings. That’s a big part of the first part of the Arthurian legend. It’s really about a man ascending to his greatest potential. In order to do that you have to look inside and deal with all of your personal demons and the voices in your head that tell you you are inadequate or incapable of pulling the sword from the stone as it were. So, really the biggest villain or biggest challenge that Arthur faces is quieting his own sense of inadequacy which is something we can all relate to.

 Arthur gathers his followers 

Courtesy of Warner Bros.

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