Charlie Hunnam is not a man who’s afraid of taking his shirt off and showing off his honed physique. Indeed at one point he was going to show even more as he was set to play Christian Grey in the movie version of Fifty Shades Of Grey.

However he left before filming began, and he’s now been talking about that to V Man, with a new, sexy photoshoot to go alongside the interview.

Of Fifty Shades, he says, “Oh, it was the worst professional experience of my life. It was the most emotionally destructive and difficult thing that I’ve ever had to deal with professionally. It was heartbreaking… I called her [director Sam Taylor-Johnson] and we both cried our eyes out on the phone for 20 minutes. I needed to tell her that this was not going to work. I was going to finish Sons, shoot the whole sequence where Tara was brutally murdered, fly to Vancouver the next day, have 10 days of rehearsal, and then start shooting. Then I was going to have three days after that and I’d have to start shooting Crimson Peak and then I’d have two days to travel and go back into season seven of Sons. There was a lot of personal stuff going on in my life that left me on real emotional shaky ground and mentally weak. I just got myself so f–king overwhelmed and I was sort of having panic attacks about the whole thing. I just didn’t know what to do.”

However stepping away from Fifty Shades doesn’t seem to have hurt his career, as he’s starring in Guillermo Del Toro’s Crimson Peak, and next year takes on the title role in the big budget Knights of the Roundtable: King Arthur, as well as The Lost City Of Z.

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Ok, so here’s the challenge – we need to write a film where it’s very, very important we get to see Charlie Hunnam’s penis. It appears he’d be up for it, or at least the Pacific Rim & Sons Of Anarchy suggests so in a new interview with Attitude.

Talking about whether he’d ever show off little Charlie, he says, “The level of nudity that I do now, which is taking my shirt off, doesn’t bother me at all. But I have done full frontal before. I did full frontal when I was 18 on the TV show Queer as Folk.”

However before you rush off to see whether there was more of Charlie in 1999 British TV show than you remember, he adds, “But because I was playing a 15-year-old character, the censorship people wouldn’t allow us to put it on TV,” he added. “I think when I was young, I was a little bit more fearless with that stuff. I don’t know. I’m sure I would; I have nothing to hide.”

We almost got to see a lot of Hunnam when he was cast to play Christian Grey in Fifty Shades Of Grey, before hectic scheduling forced him to pull out. Perhaps if he’s done the role he wouldn’t have insisted on the ‘no penis’ clause Jamie Dornan had in his contract (although considering the need for an ‘R’ rating there’s no guarantee).

So if anyone wants to write a script all about Charlie’s bits, send it to him and see what he thinks!