If you were following along with the news cycle of DC movies during the DC Extended Universe era, which is coming to an end later this month with Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom, then you likely saw Sons of Anarchy actor Charlie Hunnam fancast as Oliver Queen, a.k.a. Green Arrow, at least one, if not multiple times. Well, it turns out that during this period when director Zack Snyder was largely steering the DCEU ship, Hunnam was actually approached to play the Emerald Archer. However, he turned down the part for a specific reason.
Hunnam finally scored the opportunity to work with Snyder thanks to Rebel Moon, with the first half of this two-part sci-fi epic debuting to Netflix subscribers later this month. While chatting about this 2023 movie release to Comicbook, the actor clarified that he never directly talked with Snyder about the Green Arrow role back in the day, but did confirm that others had approached him about it, saying:
