Apple Series Casts Charlie Hunnam In Lead Role
Charlie Hunnam has been hired to play the lead role in the forthcomingAppleseriesShantaram.
The series is based onGregory David Robert’s novel and will represent the international production forApple TV Plus, after the rights to the novel was acquired by the company in June 2018.
The 2003 novel is about a man named Lin (who Hunnam will play), on the run from a prison inAustralia, who makes his way toBombay, hoping to get lost in the teeming city. Separated from family and friends, he is introduced toIndia’s underworld and slums.
Charles Matthew Hunnamis an English actor and model. He is best known for playing Jackson ‘Jax’ Teller in theFXdrama seriesSons of Anarchy (2008-2014). His movie roles include Raleigh Becket inPacific Rim(2013), and Arthur inKing Arthur: Legend of the Sword (2017).