Of course, young Nathan has no idea what a rimjob even is, recalling 50 Shades heroine Anastasia Steele and her own lack of carnal knowledge. Should you have any doubt about Hunnam and his willingness to go there in an onscreen sex scene, do press play on this super-NSFW clip from the first episode of Queer As Folk, where he is convincingly, enthusiastically rimmed by Aidan Gillen. Hunnam’s character, 15-year-old Nathan, begins the series a newcomer to all things gay, but on his very first night out on Manchester’s Canal Street, he meets the sexually rapacious Stuart (Aidan Gillen, who’d go on to play Carcetti on The Wire and Littlefinger on Game of Thrones), who gives Nathan quite the education in the bedroom. remake that debuted the next year on Showtime). Unlike any other TV show that had come before it, Queer As Folk was utterly frank in its depiction of modern gay life, strip-mining that subculture for all the sex, drugs, and drama it could possibly provide (and generating a less-acclaimed U.S. Hunnam was only 18 when he was cast on the notorious British drama, which ran for just ten episodes starting in April of 1999.

version of Queer As Folk - played a tentative young student in the thrall of a highly sexual older man essentially, that means that long before Hunnam will play Christian Grey, he’s already embodied Anastasia Steele. It also marks things coming full circle for the actor who, in his first big TV credit - the original U.K. Still, yesterday’s announcement that he’ll play the dominant, damaged Christian Grey in the film adaptation of 50 Shades of Grey means that Hunnam is about to become a lot more famous very quickly, since everyone and their mother had an opinion on who should be cast as Grey, a wealthy mogul who embarks on a sexy, sadomasochistic relationship with wide-eyed Anastasia Steele (to be played by Ben and Kate’s Dakota Johnson). Photo: Frazer Harrison/Getty Images, Channel 4Ĭharlie Hunnam is hardly an unknown: The 33-year-old British actor stars in one of the biggest shows on cable, Sons of Anarchy, and he played the lead in this summer’s $100 million-grossing sci-fi vehicle Pacific Rim.

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