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Charlie Hunnam has finally acknowledged his strange 'half English, half American' accent

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Published 10:32 21 Oct 2023 GMT+1

Charlie Hunnam has finally acknowledged his strange 'half English, half American' accent

He admitted he'd been working in America so long it had changed his accent

Joe Harker

Joe Harker

Sons of Anarchy star Charlie Hunnam has opened up about his strange 'half English, half American' accent.

While everyone has an accent when they speak, it can change over time depending on a number of things.

Lots of people you see on your screens have a very different accent to the voice you probably associate with them.

In some rare cases, people have just woken up with a different accent, though generally, if you're living in another part of the world to where your accent stems from it'll change over time to be more like the people around you.

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For some, they can be left with a strange hodgepodge accent which sounds really weird and quite a few people were noticing that actor Charlie Hunnam had a voice which sounded like it belonged in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean.

Charlie Hunnam addressed comments about his 'half English, half American' accent.
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People started picking up on his 'half English, half American' accent and the actor himself addressed the bafflement of some of his fans last year.

In an interview with Vanity Fair, the actor admitted that the situation with his accent had become a little bit 'embarrassing'.

He 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."

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Hunnam 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.

Hunnam admitted that working in America for so long had changed his accent from his native Geordie.
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"I have a lot of family in Melbourne – I came to Melbourne the first time when I was two years old and spent six weeks there, so I’ve been coming to Australia all my life."

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Explaining the premise of Shantaram, Apple TV said: "Escaped convict Lin Ford flees to the teeming streets of 1980s Bombay, looking to disappear.

"Working as a medic for the city's poor and neglected, Lin finds unexpected love, connection, and courage on the long road to redemption."

Rotten Tomatoes critics have given the series an underwhelming 56 percent, but the audience seems to differ by issuing the film a generous 81 percent.

The Critics' Consensus reads: "Charlie Hunnam is appealingly roguish as the irascible Lin Ford, but Shantaram's lack of a propelling narrative leaves this compelling character stranded."

Featured Image Credit: FX / Vanity Fair

Topics: Celebrity, TV and Film

Joe Harker
Joe Harker

Joe graduated from the University of Salford with a degree in Journalism and worked for Reach before joining the LADbible Group. When not writing he enjoys the nerdier things in life like painting wargaming miniatures and chatting with other nerds on the internet. He's also spent a few years coaching fencing. Contact him via [email protected]

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