An adaptation icon. Loads of Sam Claflin’s roles have one thing in widespread, because the actor has a behavior of starring in TV exhibits and films primarily based on best-selling books.
In February 2023, he starred because the fictional rock star Billy Dunne within the miniseries Daisy Jones & The Six, primarily based on creator Taylor Jenkins Reid’s 2019 e-book of the identical title. The Prime Video collection marked his tenth look in a novel adaptation — not counting the three separate Starvation Video games movies he starred in — which subsequently earned him the title of “e-book to display king” by Reese Witherspoon’s Reese’s E book Membership in a February TikTok video.
The star — who shares youngsters Pip and Margot together with his ex-wife, Laura Haddock — has taken on a wide range of roles in bringing beloved tales to life on the massive and small display, from exhibiting his sentimental aspect in rom-coms equivalent to Me Earlier than You and Love, Rosie, to portraying the uptight brother of Sherlock Holmes in Enola Holmes and extra.
Maybe Claflin’s largest e-book adaptation function so far is that of The Starvation Video games’ Finnick Odair. His profession skyrocketed following his debut because the District 4 victor within the 2013 sequel Catching Fireplace and went on to reprise the function in Mockingjay — Half 1 and 2 in 2014 and 2015, respectively, alongside Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson and Liam Hemsworth.
Having starred in so many variations of well-known novels through the years, followers could be stunned to know that the Charlie’s Angels star isn’t a lot of a reader himself. “I’ve a bookshelf at dwelling, however mainly it consists of the e-book variations that I’ve made,” he admitted in a March 2023 interview with InStyle. “I solely ever hear in regards to the tasks after I do know there’s a script on the market, and somebody says, ‘Oh, did you understand it’s a novel?’”
Not like his Daisy Jones character, Claflin’s personal information of music isn’t as huge, as he went on to disclose, “I genuinely had to go surfing and google whether or not Daisy Jones & The Six was an precise band. My information of Nineteen Seventies rock and roll could be very, very unhealthy, so this has been a really enormous studying curve for me.”
Portraying well-known characters comes with strain, one thing Claflin instructed InStyle he felt quite a lot of throughout his Starvation Video games days. “I feel Finnick was such a beloved character,” he shared. “If I keep in mind proper, there was a little bit of an uproar once I obtained forged, as a result of everybody was like, ‘This man seems nothing like him.’ Nobody had ever actually seen me do issues, so I did every part in my energy to go show them incorrect and show that I might do it.”
He beforehand opened up about being body-shamed on set of certainly one of his tasks in a 2017 interview with The Sydney Morning Herald. “I learn in an interview not too long ago and I feel it’s completely true: males have it simply as unhealthy,” he stated on the time. “Effectively, not simply as unhealthy however they get it unhealthy and it’s by no means talked about. I keep in mind doing one job after they actually made me pull my shirt up and had been grabbing my fats and going, ‘You want to lose a little bit of weight.’ This different time they had been slapping me. I felt like a chunk of meat.”
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Scroll beneath to look again at each e-book adaptation Claflin has appeared in through the years:
