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- “A lot of the roles I played earlier on in my career… I had a topless scene in one of my first movies, but it wasn’t in the script and I got told a week before they were going to [take] my top off,” he said on the Happy Place podcast.
- “I was like, ‘sh*t, I haven’t been working out, what am I going to do?’ This is my first introduction to the world.” Related Stories News ‘The Count Of Monte Cristo’: PBS Masterpiece Reveals Premiere Date For Sam Claflin Starrer — First Look News Sam Claflin On Becoming Billy Dunne For ‘Daisy Jones & The Six,’ Diving Deep Into Fleetwood Mac’s History & Gravitating To Projects That Feel “Closer To Home” Claflin added, “I’m incredibly insecure.
- I just went to a screening of a film I was in and everyone immediately afterwards [asked], ‘How was it?’ And ‘I hated it.’ It’s my face, I don’t like [it].” Watch on Deadline Last year, the actor told The Telegraph that he quickly “developed a form of body dysmorphia” about the industry following his big screen debut as Philip Swift in Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (2011).
- “There is this Hollywood assumption that it’s the men with the six packs who sell the movie.
- So there was a pressure that that was what I needed to look like,” said Claflin.
