Charlie Hunnam now says he regrets comments he made earlier this month regarding marrying his longtime girlfriend Morgana McNelis.
While doing the media rounds to promote his new film The Gentleman, Hunnam admitted that what he’d previously said was “stupid.”
While appearing on Andy Cohen’s SirusXM radio show, Hunnam said that he was “sort of indifferent” to the idea of marrying McNelis. “She does not say the same,” he added. “She’s very eager to get married. Yeah, so, I’ll do it because it’s important to her, but I don’t have any great romantic feelings towards it.”
“You know what? That was a stupid thing to say,” Hunnam admitted on Wednesday.
“That interview was just like a lot of banter, and Hugh was sort of bantering in a very superficial — not disingenuous — but not really speaking his personal truth. We’re all just bantering, and all of a sudden we’re bantering about one thing and I get asked my opinion about marriage. I just said something that doesn’t really reflect my true thoughts at all. It’s like being with your pals, sometimes not thinking. You’re not trying to articulate your sincere opinion about something, and then you see it in black and white,” he said.
He also said that McNelis was hurt by his original comments on Cohen’s show.
“I really regretted saying that, cause I actually didn’t mean it at all. It was just, frankly, some stupid shit I said in the heat of the moment.
“Listen, you spent 12 hours a day for three days doing interviews straight, you’re gonna say some stupid shit. Especially a guy like me that’s not that smart,” he joked.
The Gentlemen is currently in theaters and has earned mostly positive reviews, according to Rotten Tomatoes.
“THE GENTLEMEN follows American expat Mickey Pearson (Matthew McConaughey) who built a highly profitable marijuana empire in London. When word gets out that he’s looking to cash out of the business forever it triggers plots, schemes, bribery and blackmail in an attempt to steal his domain out from under him,” reads the movie’s synopsis.
“Filled with crosses and double crosses, the plot is mostly irrelevant, but the outlandish flourishes make for a good deal of foul-mouthed fun,” one reviewer wrote.
“There’s a very self-aware element to [Matthew McConaughey’s] performance and to this film — for the better. This is a great return to form for Guy Ritchie,” another said of the film.
