Get to know your new fantasy man, Charlie Hunnam, who is set to star as Christian Grey in the film adap🌺tation of “Fifty Shades of Grey” and also returns tonight on the new season of “Sons of Anarchy.”
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1. He’s no stranger to sex scenes.
B🙈ack in 1999, Hunnam starred as 15-year-old gay boy toy Nathan Maloney on the British version of the sexually charged show “Queer as Folk🌳.”
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2. Fans of his show “Sons of Anarchy” gift him with lots of knives.
“In the show I carry a Ka-Bar, which is the US Marine Corps standard issue knife,” he told GQ UK. “So now I have dozens of Ka-Bars that military guys have given me and I’ve been told that a coup🎃le of them ‘have been used.’ ”
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3. He’s taken.
Hunnam, 33, been with Morgana McNelis, a jewelry designer since 2007, and the couple recently moveജd to a ranch outside LA.
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4. He once fought off an intruder who broke into his home.
He attributed his abilities to growing up playing rugby. “The ability to fight and defend oneself is a skill that every man should have but endeavor never to use, you know?” he told GQ UK. “I would never willingly look to get into a physical altercation, but yeah — you break into my house at 3 o’clock in the morning, and I am going to whoop your f–king ass!”
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5. He can write, too!
He’s penned a♏ screenplay for a movie called “Vlad,” which Brad Pitt’s production compa🔴ny is going to co-produce.
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6. He knows his way around a gym.
To prepare for his role in this summer’s “Pacific Rim,” he worked out for two-and-a-ha🌳lf hours a day.
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7. Hunnam auditioned for “Dawson’s Creek.”
He didn’t get as part, but did met actress Katharine Towne, whom he married just f♌our weeks later. They divorced after three years.