Charlie Hunnam is still bragging (?) about how he ghosted his girlfriend Morgana while he filmed The Lost City of Z. He first bragged about how Method he is several months back, when he confirmed that he just dropped contact with his girlfriend for five months, with no notice. In Hunnam’s recent Mr. Porter profile, he said something similar too:
To play the part, Mr Hunnam denied himself both food – his weight fell again to about 10 stone (65kg) – and social contact.
“I decided to create a situation where I felt real loneliness, and the weight of that sacrifice emotionally,” he says. “So I cut everybody out of my life for the entirety of the four-month shoot.”
There’s Method, and there’s madness. Mr Hunnam shrugs and smiles. “Switched my phone off. Had no email. Didn’t go on the internet once. Didn’t watch a movie. Didn’t make a phone call for four months.” Mr Hunnam somehow managed to hang on to his long-term girlfriend, the jewellery designer Ms Morgana McNelis, during this episode.
When Hunnam was discussing this ghosting act with EW several months ago, he said he did it without warning. As in, Morgana wasn’t even told that he was going all Method. She wasn’t part of his decision to go silent. She didn’t get any emails, letters, phone calls or visits. Imagine that. Imagine still being with that guy when he comes back. And now imagine watching him laugh like a douchebag bro about how funny it was and how he and Robert Pattinson couldn’t wait to drop their partners for months on end.
On @GMA: Charlie Hunnam and Robert Pattinson talk to @ChrisConnelly on how they pushed the limits for their new film, @lostcityofz. pic.twitter.com/SZRnNC2gO7
— Good Morning America (@GMA) April 11, 2017
I’m sorry, but this is gross. Is it wrong that I feel like people should be totally over Charlie Hunnam?
Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet.
I can’t stand this sh*tty behaviour. To what? To prove that he is such a serious actor? NO. He is a douchebag and should be ashamed of this.
To quote the great Bridget Jones, he is an emotional f***wit
He’s still mid range for an actor so I guess method is working for him
I’ve never seen any of his movies but he looks totally forgettable. Sounds like a jerk, though.
I agree, he’s a douche, and if he was a good actor he would be able to do a decent job without having to go “method”. He should be able to act, not force the emotion by creating it in his real life.
I agree. The guy’s a shït.
I’m sure he wants to prove he is a serious actor.
This as annoying as when he kept talking about dropping out of 50 shares of grey. Is he doing this because he thinks this Lost City of Z movie roles will get him an Oscar nod? Is this the beginning of his ” I fought a fake bear therefore I have struggled for my art” Oscar campaign?
He just needs to move on to another talking point because this one is making him look thoughtless.
Its a cruel thing to do to your partner. Just cruel. And to laugh it off like that is even more cruel. I can´t understand how you can stay with someone like that. But hey, he is taking her on a vacation so all is good…
I like this clip where Pattinson is basically mocking Hunnam’s “method” acting. It starts around :50 mark…
http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/video/robert-pattinson-charlie-hunnam-dish-lost-city-46719736
Yeah, I can’t see Rob doing this to Twigs.
I couldn’t even finish the segment. Eye rolling. He is sooo proud of it!
Ugh. He keeps making it sound like talking to his girlfriend was baggage. Awful.
In a red carpet interview in Berlin, Rob said that no one would ever talk to him again if he did what Charlie did (ghosting). Rob was laughing and framed it as admiring Charlie’s dedication, but yeah I don’t see Rob buying into that method.
I get that every actor has their own process, but what would have been the harm in telling his girlfriend he wouldn’t be in contact for 2 months? Why did he feel the need to make her wonder? Also, I didn’t appreciate his comment about how standoffish Rob was with him, when Charlie clearly set the tone. It’s nice he has tried to rectify that in recent interviews, but his weird comment generated several articles about a feud.
Hmmm, let me think about this.
Oh, yeah. Emotionally abusive dick.
It’s f*cking emotional abuse, straight-up. My ex used to do that shit: we’d get in an argument and he would just ghost me for a week, sometimes longer. It’s very injurious to a relationship and it’s manipulative and selfish AF.
I had a guy try to do that to me. He felt like he needed space so he ghosted me with no warning for a month. After week #2 when I confirmed he was alive (my first thought was that something bad happened), I assumed I had been dumped.
I skipped town on my own to Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia for travel. While I was there he contacted me to try and join me but I was like, boo I never go back for seconds. Eff that ish.
I wonder if he would’ve gloated as much, if she had moved on with someone else. Justifiably so might I add.
I’m not excusing his behavior, at all, but at least he *is* an actor. It’d be worse if he were an accountant or a teacher, or just a normal person, and suddenly broke off contact with his girlfriend. At least with acting there’s a slim chance it is work related (especially if she knew he was going out there to film in the first place).
But still. It was horribly inconsiderate of him.
I think the problem comes from that. He is allowed because he is “a serious actor” when in reality you can be serious about it without ghosting anyone. You can warn your family & friends BEFORE, explaining that you need to cut contact and then it is something completely different. Using the argument of him being an actor (not you, I get what you are saying) is a lame justification to get a pass for being an assh*le.
Eh still not acceptable. There’s nothing method in ghosting your partner. Daniel Day Lewis is notorious for being method but he did so in the presence of family (just not breaking character). What he is doing is straight up douchebag behavior
Not acceptavle. Ghosting your girlfriend, with no warning? Just despocable. Tbh, no matter how he tried to apologize, I’d dump him for the sheer shame I’d feel when he publicly stated the fact, adding insult to the injury. I’d be so embarrassed in front of my family and loved ones.
Not to mention, guy is a mediocre actor. Nothing special, so all of that method and dying for your art doesn’t make any particular sense, in retrospect.
DICKWEED.
Wish he would pick one accent & stick with it. It’s all over the bloody place! She won’t be his girlfriend for very long if he keeps this douchbag behavior up?
No excuse for his douchebag behavior – but accents can be so very fluid.
I am American but have lived in the UK for 10+ years, my parents were immigrants to the US. My accent changes depending on who I am speaking to, and people definitely pick up on it, too. It is certainly not intentional – if anything it is embarrassing when people point it out because it makes me feel like a Madonna-esque twat.
Yeah, I can’t hate on him for the accent(s)
I can’t either.
I’m Canadian, have always lived in Canada, but am a natural mimic. I pick up accents like crazy, without meaning to.
Oh yay, I thought I was alone in this.
My partner told me while travelling I was mimicking the accents and I felt like a giant ass because I didn’t even realize I was doing it. Apparently I do this all the time, and never knew.
Clare, you are right, its kind of embarrassing, definitely not something I’m proud of.
Why would you not be proud of it? It is a good quality and means that you have a natural talent for languages. You should use it to your advantage!
I’m from Houston, but when I visit family in Chicago even just for a few days, I come back saying “ChicAHHgoh.” It is embarrassing. It takes me longer to drop it than it does to pick it up.
That’s very sweet of you to say Mathilde. The ‘shame’ for me is because I’m often mimicking grammatical patterns and accents from non-native English speakers accidentally. I do it with other accents too, and i don’t want to come off as making fun of someone for speaking another language.
Or you come across as try-hard because you dropped your home accent, ala Madge.
my mum was raised in England (24), moved to Canada (Montréal) for 25 years, then moved to Houston, Texas for the last years of her life. Her “Hi y’all” was hilarious, and her accent flowed from being strictly british, to Canadianisms, to her Texas drawl. She immersed herself where ever she was, and sounded like a British-Canadian Texan at the end. Bless her heart…..
My thing is: Why brag about it? You treated someone you love like trash for 4 months. Why do you think this is cute?
Ugh. I wish he would drop it already. Stop reminding me you did such a horrible thing to your girlfriend.
I won’t judge her in this situation though. But being that they’ve been together for so many years maybe she knew something like this would happen. It for all we know this is just talk and he did tell her beforehand. Because it is such a messed up thing to do.
After all these stories coming out lately is there going to be one actor/actress I’m going to be left liking?!?
Liked him on SOA and in Pacific Rim but jeez, doesn’t he have a publicist to tell him the do’s and don’ts of interviews.
I know he’s not the first and he won’t be the last.
Even with that tush, I wouldn’t be sticking around after that ghosting nonsense.
I always wonder about the power dynamic is famous/non-famous celebs.
If Morgana wasn’t constantly being bombarded by messaging that she didn’t deserve him, that he was better than her, that he could do whatever and ‘I’ would love him, would she stick around?
yeah, i sort of side eye relationships between famous/non famous people, unless they happened to be together before the famous got famous.
it seems to get weird even when one part of the couple bumps up in popularity.
If you are both Dlist and then one becomes A list, that changes things and most couples don’t seem to roll well with it… Hamm and Westfeldt comes to mind immediately, but there are others.
I think its especially rough for someone like Morgana, because Hunnam is a sex symbol. The constant fangirling would be difficult to deal with i think.
Good point. Famous/Non Famous is great for the famous one. Less attention and basically all of the power. Not good at all for the non famous one.
I mean I can understand that a non famous partner attracts less attention and helps you to stay out of the gossip mags (for example Emma Watson or Matt Damon) but the power balance is very one sided and seems controlling.
I really wonder if it is possible to do it in some sort of egalitarian way?
I mean maybe it works for people who go the Olsen or Grace Kelly route.
You find someone with their own wealth and it eliminates part of the power imbalance.
I dunno, to me he is nothing to write home about.
Yes, I don’t find him at all attractive.
same. dont get why girls drool over him….
Charlie is good to look at but he sounds like a ding dong.
I don’t think he’s the one who is constantly bringing up the ghosting story out of enjoyment. He’s promoting two movies simultaneously. It’s most likely the lazy journos asking him about it every time he sits down to an interview. He’s probably just as bored talking about it as we are reading it. Plus it’s no secret all actors exaggerate when talking about themselves.
i’m not even a fan of this dude, but i think people are making it into a bigger deal than it is. it’s probably just a pr story. he maybe stopped calling her for like, 2 weeks, a month at best. it was like that time natalie portman DID.ALL.HER.DANCE.MOVES!!!! for black swan, except she didn’t.
@ELL Yep, that’s what I think too.
Even if it’s just a PR story his handling of it is GROSS. Yeah to hell with my girlfriend of ten years I supposedly love…doesn’t this story make me sound badass method?! 🙄
He responds to the questions as if this story should make us go “wow, such dedication!”
Face it, he’s a douche, I’m over it.
That still makes him a dick. Then he is a guy that thinks its funny to portray his relationship like this and thinks its alright to tell the world he disrespected her so much. All to promote to a crappy movie. If its really true or not is nothing we can know and for us its not really relevant imho. I will think less of him in any case.
I agree. I think it’s a PR story and it’s not funny. He wants to prove he is a serious actor, but he is a douche…
Even if just a month – IMO still a dick move.
And he’s the one perpetuating the story – like he’s so proud of the idea that he would ghost his girlfriend.
In the clip I posted above, Hunnam himself says he didn’t have any contact, no phone, email etc for four months. He said it was “liberating” He’s telling the world it felt liberating to ghost his girlfriend. Sorry, he’s a dick.
OH my god.
This is his job. People travel like this for work, all the the time. Do you think the Doctors who work around the world are texting and Snapchatting their long term partner every 5 minutes?
I think after over a decade together, she knows good and well what his process is like and how seriously he takes a role. I do not believe that she had no idea that the communication would be limited, if not ceased completely, considering where and what he was filming.
I keep reading the ire about this, here, and I just do not get it. It’s Celebitchy. We’re bitchy. Cool. But in a world of Bro Dudes, Charlie doesn’t seem to fit that bill, despite how hard the narrative is pushed.
(end rant of an admitted fangirl)
Being away for work and not calling everyday ins’t the issue, ghosting is and there’s a huge difference between both. Not warning people in your life that you will cut communication for months, not weeks (unless I misunderstood) can’t be OK. Would it make a different to warn his girlfriend?
Every 5 minutes is excessive. Daily is not.
Stan is here on time
Oh Lord no. My mom just came back from a 2 week and a half business trip from Hong Kong and Manila. Time difference with NY? 12 hours. She made sure to call my dad nearly every day despite the 12 hr time difference. She facetimed me twice, once to say hello and the second to wish me happy birthday since she had to miss it due to her work trip. Any other news I got from my dad who would keep me updated on her. And pretty sure she was busier than Charlie Hunnam on a movie set (she’s a chief compliance officer and has staff that she works with in many countries she’s not just some paper pusher). And guess what? She found time to stay in touch! It is the principle of the thing. You don’t know just disappear for 4 months, I don’t care who you are.
You know the saddest part of this stupidity of a piss contest some young male actors are enacting lately? that they run to the press and brag about what they did to go method THEMSELVES. Nobody is asking them. They are SO EAGER to show how much they’re willing to “suffer” for their craft….Is hilarious and funny how desperate they come out. Desperate for attention and recognition, because in their heads, the more they go method with extreme, stupid and absolutely unnecessary stuff the more they think the’ll be respected. One goes and chopped his tooth (ben foster), other cuts his own cheek with a knife (Shia) other idiot says how much he suffered by eating raw meat and sleeping with a bear (Leo), this idiot says he plain stop talking to his gf (and she should actually dump him hi she had any self respect)…the common denominator of all of them? They tell these stories THEMSELVES. Not that someone of the production commented about to, or it leaked, or some journalist found out…nope, it’s all by themselves that they’s so desperate to the word to know how artsy they are. Pathetic and desperate. Have you ever heard DDL bragging about his method ways? He never said a word. And these young desperate wannabe DDL fellas should know that method is NOT guaranty of a good performance at all. Actually the opposite IMO. Method id just plain lazy acting. Easier to go a do drugs for playing a drug addict than actually enacting it. Is also more fun to them and a lame excuse to be “the tortured” artist. The other funny thing is that ACTRESSES, real talented actresses, doest need this sh*t for validation or to show how talented they are. We’ll never know and they will never brag about how method they are or if they ever need it.
Even Christian Bale who goes over the top doesn’t seem to even want to talk about it, does he? Maybe I’m forgetting something but from what I remember he isn’t eager to share any of that. Even Daniel Day-Lewis doesn’t brag about it.
Key phrase “wannabe DDLS” The man many people consider the world’s greatest living actor [my all time favorite] is a devoted family man who has been married for 20 years. Both of these boys have a long way to go.
Agree with all of this, except the actresses. Natalie portman went on and on about the pain she went through for Black Swan. Anne Hathaway – Les Mis. I feel like Jennifer Aniston probably said something about looking grubby for Cake.
The really really good actors and actresses don’t grandstand about method though, you’re right. DDL is a great example.
Whenever I hear about method acting it reminds me of this ( from a the guardian article) – “Dustin Hoffman has long been known as one of method acting’s most earnest exponents. A showbiz story involves his collaboration with Laurence Olivier on the 1976 film Marathon Man. Upon being asked by his co-star how a previous scene had gone, one in which Hoffmann’s character had supposedly stayed up for three days, Hoffmann admitted that he too had not slept for 72 hours to achieve emotional verisimilitude. “My dear boy,” replied Olivier smoothly, “why don’t you just try acting?” (Hoffman subsequently attributed his insomnia to excessive partying rather than artistry).”
I love that one!:D
@D – you beat me to it, I was thinking of the same exact thing.
he’s an asshole. That’s all.
I think a lot of people are projecting their own feelings into this. She’s still with him so did she really care? Maybe it wasn’t a deal breaker for her? If they’re still together and she’s happy what’s the big freaking deal.
This isn’t about her, it is about his behaviour, the principle behind it.
If I were his girlfriend, and he went radio silent for months – without advance warning – we’d be done. Once I had confirmed he was alive and seemingly well, all of his belongings would go into storage, or get donated to charity if I woke up especially petty that morning, and I’d be gone.
Why is she still with him?
She has no money of her own.
His hotness is draining away for me.
That he seems to find it so amusing and a “go to” anecdote for that “crazy time when” is what’s so incredibly tone deaf about the whole thing. I used to have warm fuzzies about this guy. Now? No thanks. Call me naive, but if you can’t deliver a performance without going all method, I have some serious questions about your skills as an actor. Maybe you just like being a douche. Side-eyeing you too, Jared Leto.
I side eye Charlie and his girlfriend. I side eye him because he has no qualms about being associated the McNiels. Morgana’s whole family has murdered and extorted people in the name of their drug empire. I know someone whose father was allegedly murdered by Morgana McNeil’s mother Judy or on her say so. This person is fighting so hard for justice for her father and I am surprised how things about Charlie and his girlfriend’s shady associations have not picked up in the mainstream press. I could care less about how he ghosts his girlfriend. What I want to know is how he can associate with such a family that has hurt so many people? Maybe I am being harsh but that is my main gripe with him. Not how he ghosts his girlfriend.
Morgana is actually Leighton Meester’s cousin. I really like Leighton as she has done everything in life not to become like her parents or her extended family. I say the jury is still out on Morgana.
WHAAAT? Tell us more on this family!
ORLY?!?
… tell me more. THIS is good dirt.
It’s true….Morgana has some shady ties….
You know, I’ve been ghosted, it’s unbelievably hurtful and insulting and stays with you all your life. I’m engaged to a man who ghosted me many years ago when we were both young. He became infatuated with a beautiful and talented singer and recording artist who wrapped him right around her little finger and basically demanded that he have no further contact with me. They married not long after meeting and therein followed many years of a sh*tty marriage with a demanding, disturbed diva, but they had a child to raise and she was their focus.
Long story short they divorced and for some years he thought about me. He finally mustered the courage to contact me, ostensibly to apologize, but we ended up falling in love. He admitted to f*cking up badly and I learned to trust him again. His willingness to admit to doing something he regrets to this day means a lot to me. Charlie, on the other hand, sounds calculating, selfish and insensitive.
Forgiveness has a big part to play in these situations – I forgave. Charlie? His behaviour is nothing more than the self-obsessed and obnoxious actions of a Hollywood d-bag and is unforgivable.
Meh, he’s an a*sshole emotional abuser and I would walk away if he did it to me. Fanwise, I’ve cancelled him.
Not sure why people find this guy attractive….physically or otherwise.
IT’S ALL ABOUT MEEEEE. (don’t know the guy but just sounds wrong to do it)
Wth is wrong with you people? He said his girlfriend accepts this about him. There are many actors that have used this method that are very successful… I think he was brilliant on SOA and just as brilliant on this new endeavor…. You people are crazy.. When you all become actors then your opinion might count.. This article is definitely bitchy and so are the comments. So sad
Hello Charlie, or Charlie’s publicist.
Nope. Just not into the guy, don’t find him attractive and NOT impressed by his acting skills. If his GF doesn’t care that he treats her badly, well that’s between them.
Did he drop his publicist, agent and lawyer during this 4 month period? If so, I’m sure they passed along the message to his GF that he was going method. Don’t feel too bad for the gal. She knows the game.
First of all I have a question: how does that work? As far as I know they have been together for a long time and share a life together. I imagine if my partner of many years just disspeared I would be worried sick and would probably call a rescue party. And second of all. I really had enough of those hard core actors trying to outdo each other how method they can get for their art. Really the point of acting is to try to portray someone you are not and express emotions you do not have naturaly. If you need all that hoopla probably you are not such a good actor. I think it speaks volumes that usually those are the ones who appear to be real douchbags that go all hardcore method. It’s because it is really difficult for someone self-centered and egoistic to actualy be an emphatic person ans so they need to go to extreems in order of trying to fucking undestand what someone else is feeling and why the characters they play are the way they are. And last but not least. The more they brg about their method ways the less interested I am in seeing their damn movie