Charlie Hunnam slips into his real hometown accent during interview and leaves fans in disbelief
Actor Charlie Hunnam was born in the North East - Newcastle upon Tyne to be exact - but many people probably wouldn't be able to tell.
Known for his role of Jax Teller in drama series Sons of Anarchy, the Brit often speaks with an American accent, or a posh southern accent that he takes on as Raymond Smith in gangster film, The Gentlemen.
So, you can be forgiven for being caught off guard when hearing Hunnam slip into the accent of his hometown during an interview with LADbible.
The 44-year-old was telling the story of how he ran into some 'hooligans' back home, when he whipped out the infamous Geordie accent.
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You can view the hilarious moment here:
Sitting alongside The Gentlemen director Guy Ritchie, Hunnam remembered the experience with the 'rapscallions' while he was once walking through Newcastle.
Though not prompted to, he did (probably) accurately portray the accents of the lads that came up to him, to great effect.
“I did come across some young rapscallions up in Newcastle a while ago,” he explains.
“And they came up to me about three o’clock in the morning - I’d been playing poker and I was walking home - and they come up to me.”
The actor then slips in and out of a clear Geordie accent as he says: “'How man are you that film star?’
“And I said, ‘Yeah I am’ and he said, ‘I f**kin knew it. Gandalf the wizard ya f**kin beardy bast**d’.
“Then they all walk past me, ‘d**khead’ one-by-one.”
And TikTok users were in hysterics over his accent as they called him a ‘top guy’.
One person said: “He’s lost his accent and now has to put on the accent which isn’t that convincing. Madness.”
However, some were more fixated on: “Not rapscallanions.”
“Why don’t we say rapscallions anymore?” another wrote. “I’m going to bring that back.”
While others pointed out that Hunnam’s first TV role was actually as a Geordie as he played Jason in Byker Grove for three episodes.
Hunnam had previously opened up about his strange ‘half English, half American’ accent.
In an interview with Vanity Fair, he admitted the situation with how his voice sounds had become a little ‘embarrassing’.
Hunnam said: "It's so embarrassing to say as an Englishman, but I'd been working in America for so long, that when I got King Arthur, I had to hire a dialect coach to help me sound English again, which was sort of an absurd situation to find myself in."
The actor had to change his accent again for series Shantaram, where he played an Australian fugitive named Lin Ford who lives in 1980s Bombay.
Addressing another change in accent, Hunnam told 7 News Australia: "I had a wonderful dialect coach and a lot of Australian friends who helped me, but honestly I think I probably got about 75 percent of the way there.
“I have a strange accent myself, it’s half English, half American, and everybody, my entire life, has thought I was Australian.”
We all know you’re a Geordie really lad, it’s alright.
Topics: Celebrity, Film, TikTok, Charlie Hunnam
Joshua Nair