The sceptical online buzz when he was cast in the part soon turned into untold numbers of appreciative GIFs.
Such as… taking your top off? More than a few of his 2.8 million Instagram followers are presumably there for the persona he developed as Finnick Odair in The Hunger Games, baring an effortfully buffed body. 'Now, having gone away and done smaller-budget things that are more collaborative, I am definitely not afraid to stand up for myself and say no to things I’m not comfortable with.’ My parents came shopping with me and they said, “How much for a pair of socks? You could buy two jumpers for that…”’ There’s also Claflin’s more debonair recent experience of modelling for a DKNY campaign, shimmying through the streets of New York in a variety of well-cut suits. There’s a lot that can go wrong.’ Bad breath? ‘No, much worse.’ What, they actually fall in love with you? ‘Let’s just say, there’s a lot that can go wrong.’ ‘I’ve been lucky, I’ve never had a tricky one. He knows others who have had difficult situations with romantic co-stars. ‘With Shay, she and Laura talked on the phone and on FaceTime and I just knew they would hit it off when they met.’ ‘Laura has always met the other person I’ve been intimate with, in that sense,’ he says. In this true story of survival, based on Tami Oldham Ashcraft’s account of 41 days adrift, it is Woodley (also brilliant in Big Little Lies) who works the sextant and dives to hunt for fish, while Claflin languishes, wounded, in the bows – a refreshing role reversal.Īs an actor herself, best known for the Hollywood fantasy Transformers, his wife Laura was understanding about the intense love story Claflin was enacting with Woodley. Woodley and Claflin are well-paired as a young couple, just engaged, who love the freedom of sailing the Pacific until Hurricane Raymond pitches them into 40ft waves, trashing their yacht and its navigation equipment. Now 31, he has matured and earned the parts with trench foot and gangrene: doomed First World War Captain Stanhope in last year’s Journey’s End, and now Richard Sharp, a salty yachtsman, in Baltasar Kormákur’s Adrift, a powerful three-hander starring him, Shailene Woodley, and the cruel, cruel sea.
He started off as prime British beefcake, strutting round The Hunger Games (2011) in a gold skirt and Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (2011) in a wet shirt, with all the high-camp pizzazz of a young Hugh Grant. This Norfolk actor is currently one of our most in-demand names. Although Claflin makes a fine statue, chiselled and commanding, he is a big softie at heart.
‘It’s just more soulful than modern technology,’ he says. Our photographer is using a vintage 1970 Lumiflex plate camera, complete with bellows, so Claflin has to hold particularly still.ĭuring a break he geeks out over the camera for 20 minutes – he and his wife, the British actor Laura Haddock, share a vinyl collection. When I first catch sight of Sam Claflin he is standing in the Florence Hall of the RIBA headquarters on Portland Place – so poised he has all but become one of the muscular, idealised art-deco men on the limestone relief behind him.
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