Charlie Hunnam Admits It’s “Heartbreaking” to Not Portray Christian Grey in ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’ Film

Charlie Hunnam is heartbroken over Christian Grey.

In a recent interview with Life & Style , The Sons of Anarchy star Charlie Hunnam talks about dropping the film adaptation of E.L. James’ best-selling “Fifty Shades of Grey” and admits how difficult a choice that was to make.

“I felt like I had an interesting take on that character and felt like I could have done a good job of playing Christian Grey, otherwise I wouldn’t have taken it on in the first place,”

“When you put the time into something like that and a character comes alive in your mind, it’s heartbreaking not to be able to play him […] It was definitely kind of heartbreaking having to say goodbye to that character and not bring it to life.”

Last September Fifty shades author EL James confirmed that Charlie Hunnam and Dakota Johnson take the roles of Christian and Anastasia Steele but a month later, Universal Pictures announced Charlie had exited the film because of Family issues and  his shooting schedule with the FX series Sons of Anarchy.

Soon after , The Irish actor Jamie Dornan  replaced him to play Christian Grey .For Charlie, there are no hard feelings about the situation. In fact, he plans on fully supporting the movie when it hits theaters next February.

“If they invite me to the premiere, I will go and see it there,” he said. “If not, I’ll go and buy some tickets on opening night.”