"Sons of Anarchy" has slowly turned into one of the most popular television series of the last few years. Show star Charlie Hunnam recently spoke about the series' popularity and its conclusion with reporters during a San Francisco press junket for his upcoming film "Pacific Rim."
"I think the appeal is across the board. By design, it was kind of a replacement to the Sopranos in many ways. A male driven crime drama," he stated. "For me in this day in age where it's kind of big brother culture, almost like we're living in a police state where we're getting told what to do and how to do it every second of the day. These are a bunch of guys doing whatever the hell they want, whenever they want and to hell with the consequences. I think that's a real fantasy for people that are so contained by their lives and society around them."
Hunnam also noted that he was surprised with the appeal that the show has for the female audience. "Every woman in the world wants to punch their husband in the face," he noted about the rebellious themes and their interest for the female audience.
"Sons of Anarchy" follows the lives of an outlaw motorcycle club operating in the fictional town of Charming, California. Hunnam's character Jackson "Jax" Teller is the series protagonist and his questioning of the club and its rules drives the narrative. The show is currently in its sixth season, but Hunnam revealed that it could come to an end after its eighth season.
"We are well into the third act of the show. So it's the time that we start to come up with some real resolution," he revealed. "I think it's going to be a very very bloody and dramatic and hopefully exciting conclusion to this thing."
However, the end is something that Hunnam has contemplated and he does not know if it will be easy to get rid of a character that has dominated his life since 2008.
"[Jax is] like a part of me. I kind of met that guy half way. And he's like alive inside of me. I'm really very nervous about the loss I'm going to feel when I have to kill him and put him to rest," he added.
Hunnam then told reporters that former show co-star Ryan Hurst struggled with moving on from the series once his story came to an end. Hurst played the character of Opie Winston in the series from 2008-2012.
"Every actor has this graveyard of characters that he carries around with him. And that's part of the job," Hunnam elaborated. "These people he's brought to life and then he's had to kill them. This was the first time in [Hurst's] life that he felt like this character wouldn't die inside him. It had this unfinished business. "
Hunnam related how Hurst went on Amazon to look for acting books that could help him move on from the role he had grown attached to.
"There were 1,000 books on character development and not a single chapter on how to kill the mother [expletive] when you are finished," Hunnam revealed. "It's going to be a really sad to finally take that cut-off and say goodbye to Jax. But I still got 20 some episodes to go."
Hunnam stars in Guillermo del Toro's upcoming "Pacific Rim." He will also feature in Del Toro's next project entitled "Crimson Peak."
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