When Charlie Hunnam signed on to FX's gritty new drama Sons of Anarchy about the inner and often emotional dynamics within the biker culture, he obviously knew the job would come with a steeper than normal educational learning curve. It's not every day you get to step into the dark world of a notorious biker gang and be accepted, trusted or even welcomed with opened arms. Now that Sons of Anarchy is riding on the open airwaves of FX, with a recent second season pick up, Hunnam has settled into the role of SAMCRO vice president Jax Teller, second in command to Ron Perlman's Clay Marrow.

As the sixth episode of Sons of Anarchy called "AK-51" gets set to air on Wednesday, October 8 at 10pm, in which Hunnam's Jax must step in and act as club president in Clay's absence, The Deadbolt's Troy Rogers hopped on his hog, hit the open phone lines, and caught up to Charlie Hunnam to find out how Jax will run the club and whether he's taken a few cues from real life bikers.

THE DEADBOLT: Since the club is international, is there any point where you guys are going to travel outside of the country?

CHARLIE HUNNAM: I hope so. [laughs] But I don’t think the budget for the show will allow for that in the first couple of seasons. But it would definitely be an interesting thing and a very true and real thing from what I understand about these clubs. The members have to travel a lot is one of the founding tenants of being in a motorcycle club, kind of this wanderlust and the joys of the open road. And that doesn’t necessarily constrain these members or keep them just in America, they go far and wide. So it would be a really smart thing and a very true thing for us to explore. But I think it would just be a monetary issue and I don’t know if we could eventually afford to do that or not.

THE DEADBOLT: How is Jax going to run things while Clay is being detained?

HUNNAM: I think that that is one of the ironic things, is that Jax would like to do things in a much more quiet, much more methodically thought out way and a much more sensible way. He realizes once he gets in that position where he has to deal with a couple of things, very quickly he realizes he’s going to have to take a page out of Clay’s book and the way he handles the situation. Because, you know, Rome wasn’t built in a day and it didn’t fall in a day either. It’s going to take me a little while to pull back from what we’ve evolved into and unfortunately I’m not able to do that in the timeframe I’m dealing with. So something comes up and has to be dealt with and I actually definitely follow Clay’s lead on how to handle it.

THE DEADBOLT: I noticed there was no voiceover from Jax’s father on the last episode. Are they doing away with that?

HUNNAM: I mean, eventually Jax is a relatively fast reader [laughs]. Eventually I’m going to get through that journal and there will be no more journal to read, which doesn’t mean they’re getting rid of it at all. But eventually, yeah, those - It was a very neat and convenient way to release that information which will inform so well the journey I was going through at that time. And I think after a while that device will become redundant and the journal will be read and we’ll move on. But I have a feeling that the journal will always - Well, at least for the first couple of seasons if we get that far, knock on wood, that the journal will definitely be a recurring theme.

THE DEADBOLT: Have you had any meetings with real Hell’s Angels or do you guys have consultants on set?

HUNNAM: Well, I’ve met a lot of different people, a lot off different club members from a lot of different clubs. I mean, I wouldn’t feel comfortable naming anyone specifically. But, yeah, I’ve been fortunate enough to meet a lot of different guys, like I say, from all different clubs. Some of the very - I can’t think of the right way to describe it - but from all different types of clubs and it’s been great. It’ll been a wonderful education and everyone’s been gracious in giving time and information and what this world is and what this lifestyle is. Even from the aesthetic point of view I was fortunate enough before we started shooting to hang out with a lot of various people who were living this lifestyle, or at least close to it, and I was able to put together an aesthetic that really made sense to me. And that I really enjoyed.

I mean, a lot of people have been, I hear - because I don’t read any press or reviews or anything like that - but I hear there’s been some debate as to the legitimacy of my wardrobe in the show, which I like because it’s obviously flying in the face of people’s preconceived notion of what this world is. And it’s obviously coming from people who don’t know this world. Because if they knew the world they wouldn’t be questioning the wardrobe because in reality it’s absolutely correct. I saw many guys my age dressing exactly the way I dress in the show, which is why I dress that way on the show. So I take a certain amount of satisfaction in people’s doubts, which is the exciting thing about the show - educating people in a world they don’t necessarily know anything about.