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Spend close to 20 hours on location and set with the cast and crew of Sons of Anarchy, and you learn a few fun facts. EW‘s recent cover story (read it online) reveals some of them: among the objects in Charlie Hunnam’s backpack is a marijuana grinder; Katey Sagal is happy to talk about Justin Theroux’s jogging attire on The Leftovers. Here are 34 other things gleaned from EW‘s September visit.
IN THE MAKEUP TRAILER
• When you catch Tommy Flanagan (Chibs) singing “Hurt” on his way in at 6:30 a.m., it’s definitely the Johnny Cash version. “Of course, the Johnny Cash version,” he says later. “I mean Nine Inch Nails, fair enough, they did a great version, but Johnny killed it.”
• Everyone knows the fun begins when Kim Coates (Tig) arrives. On this day, he starts a lively conversation suggesting he’ll wear a Speedo to the show’s premiere screening that weekend. He and Flanagan claim they’ve never worn a Speedo, but Hunnam admits to having donned one as a child.
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• The show’s head of makeup, Tracey Anderson, has it out for Abel.
She barely lets Hunnam sit down in her chair at 6:50 a.m. before asking
him if he thinks Abel is behind something bad in the script they
received the previous night.Anderson: I know he’s psycho. I really want it to be him.
Hunnam: I know you do. (Laughs)
Makeup artist Sabine Taylor: I’m afraid you’re overestimating what a little boy like that is capable of.
Anderson: If he’s a sociopath…
David Labrava (Happy): I think Abel [redacted], but Abel didn’t [redacted].
Anderson: I haven’t liked that kid since day one.
• Anderson, pictured below, holds the speed record for bullet wounds. “I time her,” makeup artist Michelle Garbin says. “One time she did six bullets in six minutes, in a pit, in the middle of the night.” (“I just wanted to get out of the pit,” Anderson says.) After seven seasons on the show, Anderson has grace under pressure: “When I started, I’d read the script and be like, ‘Ohmygod, they’re gonna have a slight cut over their eye.’ I’d get all worried about it. ‘We need them back in the trailer for 20 minutes!’ Now it’s like, ‘Whatever, we’ll just do it on set,'” she says.