As we’ve documented before, “Sons of Anarchy” creator/showrunner Kurt Sutter is not a man to be trifled with. But that’s what ScreenJunkies blogger “Fred Topel” inadvertently did when he interviewed “SOA” star Charlie Hunnam at Sundance, where Hunnam was promoting his film The Ledge.
Q: Where does Jax [Hunnam's character] need to go in Season Four?
CH: I think that he needs to assert himself and needs to control his psychotic mother [played by Katey Sagal, Sutter's wife -Ed.] who has no place trying to run a motorcycle club. If I was in charge of the writing, I would really, really pull back on that because that’s just a device that doesn’t ever ring true to me. So it’s very frustrating to me sometimes to be put in a position as an actor to have to play out scenes where I don’t believe the dynamic and I don’t believe that Jax would ever be taking orders from his mother, you know. So I hope that that is something that can be remedied a little bit.
Fans of the show accused Topel of baiting Hunnam and/or twisting his words and/or taking the comments out of context, so Topel posted the full audio of the interview, but it was too late: Sutter had already caught wind of it and proceeded to call Topel a c*nt six different times. He ends his diatribe with a rather intimate threat of violence:
If I ever meet the c*nt who wrote the article (and I know who the f*ck you are), I’ll rip his f*cking heart, sh*t in the hole, then make his mother eat it.
Wait… is Kurt gonna make Topel’s mom eat Topel’s heart or the sh*t in his chest hole? I’d hate for a misplaced modifier to get in the way of Sutter’s violent revenge.
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He’s the anti-Uwe Boll.
F*ck that c*nt for accurately quoting an actor.
So Sutter is mad at the blogger for asking a question and not the actor for saying the writing is inconsistent?
BRB.. gonna go take some candy from this baby, because fuck him.
I love this blog, and am not writing just to be contrarian, but I just listened to the interview, it does not seem like the writer took the quote out of context. He didn’t even ask about his mother.
I hate it when the brass at a show blame interviewers instead of their cast for their cast disagreeing with them. They folks behind big love pulled the same shit when Chloë Sevigny trashed the show after in response to a run of the mill interview question from the Onion AV Club:
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Hunnam disagrees with a writing decision, its not screen junkies’ fault they report what he said to them. Sutter really isn’t being very productive by making death threat against people who report verbatim what his cast say.
I’ll be impressed if Sutter actually rip Tpoel’s fucking heart, shit in the hole, then make his mother eat it. Until then, whatever.
Once I find this blogger, I’m gonna make ‘em eat my shit, then shit out my shit, then eat their shit which is made up of my shit that I made ‘em eat. Then all you motherfucks are next. Love, Kurt Sutter.
Don’t shank him in the library OK Otto? Sheesh, it’s like that guy never wants to get out of jail!
Pretend bikers are so bad ass!
Nothing says “genuine biker” like threatening violence through your blog.
Come on, Kurt. I love your show, but you’re better than that.
Settle down, Francis.
So Sutter writes in a scene where Jax gets his ass kicked in the middle of the desert wearing nothing but leather under the glaring sun and sends the PAs out on errands so there’s nobody to help him in and out of costume the day all the fans break down.
wipe wipe
Problem solved.
Additional trivia: Fred Topel is the guy you can hear asking the dorky question at the beginning of the Ed Helms interview I included in this Frotcast:
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He didn’t do anything wrong, and Kurt Sutter suddenly seems like a real dick.
Well Kurt, as you said about Ricky Gervais, Englishmen should not talk about this kind of thing. Charlie Hunnam has not been in Hollywood long enough to express himself like this, it’s racist to all Americans. And black people.
Biggest fan of SoA, but Sutter lost my respect when he attacked Gervais like he did.
The women was nominated for an Emmy for the Role. Charlie should stop being a bitch about it. Maybe he liked the writing better when he was on Queer as Folk. If I were Sutter, I’d focus my anger on Hunnam. I’d make him suck a dick in jail next season or something. (in jail its not geigh)
@Smegga. Isn’t he Australian ?
You GUuuuuUUuuuYS!!! Hunnam can’t be wrong here. He’s just too handsome, and as my defense attorney told the Supreme Court “Handsome is never guilty”
Nope, Hunnam’s a Brit.
I tried to steer clear of stating my opinion while writing this post, but Sutter should know by now that this is the sort of thing that goes away if you just ignore it.
CH: If I was in charge of the writing, I would really, really put in a scene where my character motorboats his Mom. In the shower. And a handy.
@Corgi a Go Go – Hunnam is from Newcastle, England.
Yes, Sagal was nominated for an Emmy in her role for her work in season three, but it was only because she was ignored after season two. She was amazing that season, just incredible, but last season she was just very good. Last season’s breakout star was Hunnam.
What Charlie is saying is that instead of having SoA focus on a dominating and conniving Sagal which was the whole focus of the first season which made the show very heavy handed at times, the reality is that less is more.
From the closing scenes of last season, it appears we will be seeing more of the bitchy Gemma Teller.
I love Sons, but from reading Sutter he gets very pissy and childish when someone expresses themselves differently to how he expects.
So Sutter writes a dominant role into the show for his wife. Hunnam bitches about it to a blogger. Said blogger reports it. Sutter has to defend the role so he can still get laid at home, but he can’t attack his star. Said blogger is attacked. Not a lot to it.
I freaking love SoA, but Sutter’s mother henning over the show and attacks against anyone that criticizes his direction is getting tiresome.
Basically, some guy has to defend putting his wife in a starring role, and goes apeshit like a (I’ll be generous) high-school kid on the playground. I’m not sure which is more fun – seeing the he-man macho posturing or the cries of “entrapment!” by the fanboys and fangirls.
Methinks he spends his whole marriage trying to be macho because he never scored four touchdowns in a single game.
Why won’t you say your opinion? Isn’t that what bloggers do? Are you scared because you picked the side of the crying douchebag writer?
that is all
oh and hunham has a lifetime pass from me because of undeclared
@Smeg Thank you kind sir