With more than 15 years since his acting debut, Sam Claflin admittedly still has insecurities about seeing himself onscreen.
The Golden Globe nominee confessed he’s “incredibly insecure” as an actor, recounting the panic he experienced when he first had to go shirtless onscreen early in his career.
“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.”
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].”
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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.