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The drama-thriller series Shantaram, starring Charlie Hunnam, premiered on Apple TV+ on October 14.
Hunnam plays Dale Conti, an Australian philosophy student and paramedic who ends up in prison after a drug-related battle that led to a conviction for armed robbery. Faced with accusations of being a snitch, he escapes from prison, takes the name Lindsay “Linbaba” Ford and goes to India to hide.
While on the PhD track, the actor talked about “getting shaken up” while shooting the thrill ride series, and how he’s now taking on the role of “full-time writer” for the next project he’s now working on.
Promo mode: Charlie Hunnam, 42, says he was bruised after being ‘roughed up’ while filming a scene from his new drama-thriller series Shantarum
Created by Eric Warren Singer and Steve Lightfoot, Shantaram is based on a semi-autographic novel of the same name by Gregory David Robert.
Set in Bombay in 1982, Hunnam’s Lin befriends a rushing guide Prabhu (Shubham Saraf) and spends time getting to know a cast of characters at a local bar full of foreigners who have come to the Indian city for various reasons. , according to The Hollywood Reporter.
As Lin immerses himself in the culture, he is drawn to a world full of saints and sinners that he may not fully understand.
And it won’t be long before viewers get to see the inner workings of a city of dreams and opportunity, as well as corruption and temptation.
Thrilling Ride: In Shantaram, Hunnan plays an honorable Australian man who escapes from prison, then takes on a new identity and goes to India to hide
The British actor played a man on the run who now lives abroad and confessed to being bruised after filming a certain scene in which he ‘roughened’.
“First, I’d hang on my wrists and they’d beat me. And if you’re in contact with the floor, the impact won’t behave as it should, in terms of physics,” Hunnam, 42, said during an interview with SiriusXM’s Pop Culture Spotlight with Jessica Shaw.
After revealing that his body wasn’t moving enough for the scene, they came up with the idea of using his body “like a punching bag” to make it react the way they wanted.
“So I said, ‘We just have to do this, you know.’ So I ended up having my whole torso black the next day because it took so many punches and kicks during that run,” he admitted.
The Toll of the Job: The British actor candidly stated that he was used as a human ‘punching bag’ to get a certain scene to work, which resulted in him being bruised; he is depicted in a scene with co-star Antonia Desplat
It seems that Hunnam has a high stamina against pain as he confessed to having secret thoughts about being a fighter.
“You know, there’s a part of me that would like, absurd as it is, to be a mixed martial arts fighter,” he told Shaw, adding, “I study martial arts and I’m very into that world. ‘
Referring to his beat as he shot Shantaram, the former Sons Of Anarchy star added, “That was my one and only day being in the octagon and getting a good beating.”
In addition to Hunnam and Saraf, Shantaram also stars Fayssal Bazzi, Sujaya Dasgupta, Antonia Desplat, Elham Ehsas, David Field, Matthew Joseph, Rachel Kamath, Alyy Khan, Elektra Kilbey, Shiv Palekar, Luke Pasqualino, Vincent Perez, Gabrielle Scharnitzky and Alexander Siddig .
Episode six of Shantaram aired on Apple TV+ on November 4, with each additional show added every Friday until the season finale on December 16.
Next project: Hunnam also revealed that he will be spending the next six months writing a miniseries, in which he came up with the original idea, which he recently sold
For his next project, Hunnam is working on a miniseries, in which he came up with the original idea, which he recently sold.
As a result, he took the next six months off his schedule to flesh out those ideas and write the episodes.
“It’s about value. In general, it’s about value,” he says SiriusXMs Shaw, before changing direction so as not to give too much away about the story.
‘What I’m most interested in is broken value structures. How we kind of emphasize status, wealth, beauty, as opposed to feeling,” he explained, adding: “The self-determination theory states that man needs three basic things to be happy. To feel competent in what they do, to feel connected to others and to feel that they have fundamental freedom over the trajectory of their lives. And those are intrinsic values that far outweigh the extrinsic values of status, wealth.’
Not only is Hunnam writing the miniseries, he also plans to star in the production.
“And so I’m thinking of playing myself into a version of making the mistake of setting my value system, inverting my value system. So that’s all I can tell you.’