Charlie on MTV news

http://www.mtv.com/movies/news/articles/1509038/20050907/story.jhtml

Rugged 25-year-old actor Charlie Hunnam, whose performance in "Green Street Hooligans" is already drawing comparisons to Russell Crowe's early-career "Romper Stomper" transformation, says he's looking forward to developing his acting talents further with the help of some heavyweights. "I'm just about to go to England to join a couple of my fellow Englishmen and a couple heroes of mine: Gary Oldman and Clive Owen. [We're] going to be doing a film for ['Y Tu Mamá También'] director Alfonso Cuarón called 'The Children of Men,' " he said. "It's basically about the plight of the evolution of humanity in the years to come ... it's 70 years in the future, and it's been 18 and a half since the last child was born, because of pollution and poor diets and all the things that we're guilty of now, just slowly killing ourselves with. They manifest themselves into an inability for us to conceive, to procreate ... once we know that there's no more [offspring to be produced], the world very rapidly degenerates into absolute chaos." While describing his rebel villain character, Hunnam could barely contain his glee: "I'm going to have four gold teeth and long dreadlocks ... this is kind of my trilogy of madmen. I played the psycho in 'Cold Mountain,' ['Hooligans'] is a fairly psychotic character, and this one I'm doing now." Julianne Moore will also star in "Children," which is aiming for a fall 2005 release.

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