Sam Claflin

newcomers list but I was still on a newcomers list when I was in my 30s I was like I've been doing this for 15 years now but now it's changed and I think I've embraced this change and kind of gone do you know what I'm not I'm more experienced than a lot of people on this film set now and I'm like do you know what I can have fun and I feel like there's less pressure yeah

I have less reason to sort of make an impression in a sense.

I feel like people now cast me because of previous work.

Yeah, they know what you're capable of.

That's definitely helped me in many ways to sort of enjoy my work.

And looking back at a lot of old performances, a lot of old jobs that I did at the beginning of my career, I wish I could redo them and just...

Yeah, I think over...

more recently over the last few years, I've tried to do things out of my comfort zone.

And that was definitely massively out of my comfort zone.

Like I'd done a bit of singing in musical theater and stuff growing up, but not anything professional.

I'd never been like trained really.

And so, yeah, that was the first time I'd ever been in a recording studio when I auditioned for that role.

But yeah, the American accent and then guitar.

I'd never picked up a guitar in my life.

We were fortunate.

And, you know, I've heard so many people talk about COVID being either a really good time or a really bad time.

And I was blessed with a difficult time, but like one that coming out of the other end of it, I was like so grateful for.

Because originally we only had like four weeks to prepare and I'd never played guitar.

Yeah.

you know, was technically kind of overweight for the role.