Sam Claflin Talks Physique Dysmorphia About Shirtless Scenes

With greater than 15 years since his performing debut, Sam Claflin admittedly nonetheless has insecurities about seeing himself onscreen.

The Golden Globe nominee confessed he’s “extremely insecure” as an actor, recounting the panic he skilled when he first needed to go shirtless onscreen early in his profession.

“A number of the roles I performed earlier on in my profession… I had a topless scene in one in every of my first motion pictures, but it surely wasn’t within the script and I acquired instructed per week earlier than they have been going to [take] my prime off,” he stated on the Blissful Place podcast. “I used to be like, ‘sh*t, I haven’t been understanding, what am I going to do?’ That is my first introduction to the world.”

Claflin added, “I’m extremely insecure. I simply went to a screening of a movie I used to be in and everybody instantly afterwards [asked], ‘How was it?’ And ‘I hated it.’ It’s my face, I don’t like [it].”

Final yr, the actor instructed The Telegraph that he shortly “developed a type of physique dysmorphia” in regards to the trade following his huge display screen debut as Philip Swift in Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (2011).

“There may be this Hollywood assumption that it’s the lads with the six packs who promote the film. So there was a stress that that was what I wanted to appear to be,” stated Claflin.