The world of cinema and series has as many curiosities to comment on as video games. Film sets are an industrial generator of these stories and usually come to us through interviews with the actors themselves. Without going any further, we recently remembered when Russell Crowe revealed an anecdote with director Ridley Scott during the filming of the first scene of Gladiator.
Now it’s the turn of Charlie Hunnam, who was recently seen in Zack Snyder’s Rebel Moon (Netflix) and previously in other films such as The Gentlemen (film), King Arthur: The Legend of the Sword and Pacific Rim. Although his most famous role was that of Jax Teller in the series Sons of Anarchy (2008-2014) for 7 seasons or 92 episodes.
Since Sons of Anarchy ended in 2014, Hunnam participated in numerous interviews and they all took the time to ask questions about the biker series. In July 2016, Entertainment Tonight released an exclusive that the actor took all of Jax Teller’s belongings when filming ended.
“Literally everything that wasn’t nailed to the ground”
In the world of cinema and series, the objects that actors use to characterize their characters occupy a huge niche. There are people who pay hundreds, thousands and millions for everything that a famous actor used or that is part of the set of a work of the caliber of The Lord of the Rings , Star Wars and others similar.
Although this is not always the case. These objects end up in the actors’ homes more often than we imagine. No one was surprised when Ryan Reynolds admitted that he went home dressed as Deadpool to better understand the character and because he simply loved him.
The Charlie Hunnam affair with Sons of Anarchy It was on another level, but not as famous, because he literally took home all of Jax Teller’s items: rings, jacket, clothes…even the motorcycle. This is not an exaggeration or a theory, he literally said that he even took the motorcycle because he considered everything his own after 7 years of filming the series. In fact, he admitted he had it in his garage.
“I stole everything from Sons of Anarchy,” he said in another Hits Radio interview. « I stole my motorcycle, I stole my jacket (you know the leather jacket), my rings… The whole suit. Literally everything that wasn’t nailed to the ground, because after I did this series for 7 years I thought was more about me than them. So is this really theft?
This is not a new practice. It has happened, it is happening and it will continue to happen in the future. Although Charlie Hunnam has taken some very valuable items like Jax Teller’s motorcycle, he is not by far the most eccentric or notable in this regard. Hunnam and Reynolds are joined by others such as (according to different sources):
Chris Hemsworth (the 5 hammers of Thor), Jennifer Lawrence (the black armor of Katniss Everdeen), Rory McCan (his swords in Game of Thrones), Adam Driver and Daisy Ridley (the lightsabers of his characters), Ian McKellen ( the key to Bilbo Baggins’ house and some gold coins), Chris Pratt (Star Lord clothing), Ralph Macchio (Karate Kid’s yellow car), and Andrew Garfield (Spider-Man costume), among others.