Charlie Hunnam knew what he was letting himself in for. It was all there in the script. Within minutes of appearing on a TV screen in his first major role, playing a 15-year-old schoolboy, he'd be having his naked bum licked by a drug-taking club Lothario. "I was just thrown into this world and it was all so exciting, and I didn't really have any gauge of what was a normal day on a set and what wasn't," the actor says of his appearance in Channel 4's headline-rattling 1999 drama Queer as Folk. "But I was a pretty fearless kid. I was just amazed that I'd been given this opportunity. I jumped in head first."

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Did getting his kit off, sticking his legs behind his ears and pretending to prematurely ejaculate on another actor's chest come easily? "I wouldn't say it came easily," laughs Hunnam, who turned 30 this month. "But easier than it would now!" Newcastle-born Hunnam was 18 when Russell T Davies – more recently Doctor Who's reboot Svengali – cast him as young Nathan in the writer/creator's ground-breaking series set amid Manchester's vibrant gay community. The voiceover at the beginning of the first episode described Hunnam's character as "the one-night stand that never went away". Beautiful, blond, inexperienced Nathan was the youngster who bewitched sharp-suited gadabout Stuart (played by Aidan Gillen) and nice, soppy Doctor Who fan and narrator Vince (Craig Kelly). Off-screen, too, Hunnam was causing a fuss. As the show's critical applause – and the controversy over its near-the-knuckle depictions of gay sex – reverberated, the teenage newcomer received many a tempting offer. Queer as Folk was recommissioned for two specials. Hunnam was invited to Hollywood to meet managers and agents. And Madonna asked him over for dinner. Come again?

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