Charlie Hunnam—handsome, brooding, and now taking on one of the darkest roles in Netflix’s anthology series—has just dropped a surprisingly personal bombshell. In a new interview, he shared how his own father once interrogated his sexuality after Charlie was cast in Queer As Folk. But this confession isn’t the headline you'll find at the top (yet). First, let’s walk back into Charlie’s early career and the path that led him here.
When Charlie was just 18, he landed the role of Nathan Maloney in Russell T. Davies’ groundbreaking Queer As Folk (1999). The show itself rattled norms by exploring gay life in Manchester, and Nathan’s storyline included a teenage romance with an older man. Charlie later admitted, “Being on that show came with some consequences,” recalling public confrontations and even a tense “altercation at Preston station.
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The backlash in real life bled into Charlie’s personal life. His father, described by the actor as “an incredibly tough scrap-metal merchant” from Newcastle, “asked if I was gay and if this was representative of the life I was living.” Charlie says the pain of disappointing his father was “a wound I had to carry.”
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