{"id":391074,"date":"2026-01-06T12:19:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T12:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/391074\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T12:19:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T12:19:07","slug":"charlie-hunnam-names-the-film-that-made-him-stop-reading-reviews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/391074\/","title":{"rendered":"Charlie Hunnam names the film that made him stop reading reviews"},"content":{"rendered":"

Charlie Hunnam<\/a> had amassed more than a decade of acting credits in movies and TV shows when he made the major decision to stop reading reviews.\n<\/p>\n

“I don’t read any of it. Not for years,” he told Access Hollywood<\/a> on Sunday at the Critics Choice Awards. “I learned that trick early in my career. I’ve been doing this for 27 years.”\n<\/p>\n

The project that taught him to avoid what others were saying about his work was a 2005 crime drama in which he costarred with Elijah Wood and Claire Forlani.\n<\/p>\n

Get your daily dose of entertainment news, celebrity updates, and what to watch with our EW Dispatch newsletter<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n

“There was a film I did called Green Street Hooligans, which ended up getting a huge sort of cult following to it, but the critics were not particularly kind to me when that film came out,” Hunnam recalled. “And I said, ‘All right, okay. I don’t need to go through this again.'”\n<\/p>\n

Directed by Lexi Alexander, who was nominated for an Oscar in 2003 for a short film she did, Green Street Hooligans is about a London newcomer’s introduction to the underground world of football hooliganism.\n<\/p>\n

In 2026, Hunnam’s movie is rated 45 percent<\/a> fresh, based on 64 reviews from movie critics, according to Rotten Tomatoes. Meanwhile, audiences on the same site \u2014 more than 100,000 people \u2014 have awarded it 87 percent.\n<\/p>\n

The Detroit Free Press summed up much of the criticism about the movie in general: “There’s a good movie to be made about the violent world of British soccer, or football, as it’s called on the other side of the pond. This isn’t it.”\n<\/p>\n

The critic from ViewLondon, meanwhile, described Hunnam’s acting as “utterly dreadful.”\n<\/p>\n

Charlie Hunnam stars in 2005’s ‘Green Street Hooligans’.<\/p>\n

Universal Pictures<\/p>\n

Hunnam said his avoidance of press about his own work meant that there was a delay in him finding out that he had been nominated for the awards that were handed out Sunday. He was nominated in the category of Best Actor in a Limited Series or Movie Made for Television for his role as serial killer Ed Gein in Monster. (Stephen Graham ended up winning for Adolescence.)<\/p>\n

“I was up at my ranch. I got a ranch up north of Santa Barbara, and I never really look at my phone when I’m up there, and I didn’t know these nominations were coming out,” Hunnam said. “I looked at my phone, and I had like 40-some missed calls and messages and I thought, ‘Oh no, something horrible has happened.’ Turns out something wonderful had happened.”\n<\/p>\n

Hunnam will have another shot at a trophy when the Golden Globes airs Sunday at 8 p.m. ET\/5 p.m. PT on CBS and streams on Paramount+.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Charlie Hunnam had amassed more than a decade of acting credits in movies and TV shows when he…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":391075,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[236,88],"class_list":{"0":"post-391074","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-entertainment"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=391074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391074\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/391075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=391074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=391074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}