{"id":455501,"date":"2026-02-05T13:11:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T13:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/455501\/"},"modified":"2026-02-05T13:11:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T13:11:10","slug":"sam-claflin-talks-body-dysmorphia-about-shirtless-scenes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/455501\/","title":{"rendered":"Sam Claflin Talks Body Dysmorphia About Shirtless Scenes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tWith more than 15 years since his acting debut, <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/sam-claflin\/\" id=\"auto-tag_sam-claflin\" data-tag=\"sam-claflin\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sam Claflin<\/a> admittedly still has insecurities about seeing himself onscreen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe Golden Globe nominee confessed he\u2019s \u201cincredibly insecure\u201d as an actor, recounting the panic he experienced when he first had to go shirtless onscreen early in his career.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t\u201cA lot of the roles I played earlier on in my career\u2026 I had a topless scene in one of my first movies, but it wasn\u2019t in the script and I got told a week before they were going to [take] my top off,\u201d he said on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.happyplaceofficial.co.uk\/pages\/podcast\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Happy Place<\/a> podcast. \u201cI was like, \u2018sh*t, I haven\u2019t been working out, what am I going to do?\u2019 This is my first introduction to the world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tRelated Stories\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a tabindex=\"0\" href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2025\/10\/the-count-of-monte-cristo-pbs-masterpiece-premiere-date-1236593762\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img class=\"c-lazy-image__img lrv-u-background-color-grey-lightest lrv-u-width-100p lrv-u-display-block lrv-u-height-auto\" src=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/wp-content\/themes\/pmc-deadline-2019\/assets\/public\/lazyload-fallback.jpg\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/CountMonteCristo_FirstLook_1.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-lazy- data-lazy- height=\"\" width=\"\" decoding=\"async\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a tabindex=\"0\" href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2023\/06\/sam-claflin-billy-dunne-daisy-jones-and-the-six-fleetwood-interview-awards-1235423459\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img class=\"c-lazy-image__img lrv-u-background-color-grey-lightest lrv-u-width-100p lrv-u-display-block lrv-u-height-auto\" src=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/wp-content\/themes\/pmc-deadline-2019\/assets\/public\/lazyload-fallback.jpg\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Screen-Shot-2023-06-23-at-10.46.09-AM.png\" alt=\"Daisy Jones &amp; The Six\" data-lazy- data-lazy- height=\"\" width=\"\" decoding=\"async\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tClaflin added, \u201cI\u2019m incredibly insecure. I just went to a screening of a film I was in and everyone immediately afterwards [asked], \u2018How was it?\u2019 And \u2018I hated it.\u2019 It\u2019s my face, I don\u2019t like [it].\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tLast year, the actor told <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/tv\/0\/sam-claflin-interview\/\">The Telegraph<\/a> that he quickly \u201cdeveloped a form of body dysmorphia\u201d about the industry following his big screen debut as Philip Swift in Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (2011).<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t\u201cThere is this Hollywood assumption that it\u2019s the men with the six packs who sell the movie. So there was a pressure that that was what I needed to look like,\u201d said Claflin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With more than 15 years since his acting debut, Sam Claflin admittedly still has insecurities about seeing himself&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":455502,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[49,48,361,75,184979],"class_list":["post-455501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-sam-claflin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=455501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455501\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/455502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=455501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=455501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=455501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}