Opies baard afscheer ritueel *SPOILERS!!*

RDJ134 27 november 2012 om 16:07 uur

Sons of Anarchy is ondanks een vaste formule (er gaat iets mis, shoot out, Jax maakt een andere deal) vrij voorspelbaar, maar dit seizoen is er iets gebeurd *SPOILERS* wat de show toch wel helemaal op zijn kop heeft gezet. Want Opie ging dood, en Opie was motherfookin badass biker die in mijn ogen als echt door kon gaan. De acteur Ryan Hurst had voor zijn rol jaren lang een epische baard laten staan en daar mee voelde hij zich ook echt Opie, en dat is Method Acting op en top.

Om nu definitief afscheid te nemen van zijn rol heeft Ryan nu samen met zijn collega acteurs uit de show nu zijn baard afgeschoren en definitief afscheid van Opie genomen. Zoals je in een niet door te linken video hier kan zien, is dat de baard zeer geliefd was en zeker gemist zal gaan worden.


The table read for Hurst's final episode titled "Laying Pipe" was particularly upsetting, recalls Charlie Hunnam (Jax). "We finished reading the script and basically sat crying in silence for about 45 minutes afterwards. None of us could go back to work. It was such a profound thing." So Hurst made sure his last day was memorable. Though only Jax, Chibs (Tommy Flanagan) and Tig (Kim Coates) appeared in the prison death scene, Hurst asked that all of his SAMCRO brothers stand in his sight line when he received the fatal blow to his head from a pipe. "I wanted everybody to stand behind the camera for the last shot so I could look at them. If you look at that last shot of Opie, he is just looking at all my brothers, and saying... thank you."

What Hurst didn't expect was how hard it was going to be to let go of Opie. Recalls Hunnam, "This is the first experience he's ever had where the character will not die. Opie was alive and well inside him and had unfinished business. And he didn't know how to kill Opie. In an act of desperation, he found himself online at 4 in the morning. He said there were a thousand books to help actors with character development but not one on how to kill the f-er when you are done. So, I said, 'Why don't you come to my house, man, and we'll do this really right. I'll get a few of the boys there and we'll cut your beard off as that's ultimately going to be the final farewell.'"

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