Sam Claflin

I hate being offered heart-throb after heart-throb. It is something that stresses me out about the industry that because you’ve done one part you can’t do any others – you want to say: ‘I act, you know. I can pretend.’

Sam Claflin photographed by Roger Rich for Zoo, 2016.

“I have to prove myself in a lot of ways - as an actor, as a person, as someone who can handle pressure.”

i’m somewhat of a perfectionist, i think, and i strive for perfection.

“You deserve someone who loves you with every single beat of his heart, someone who thinks about you constantly, someone who spends every minute of every day just wondering what you’re doing, where you are, who you’re with, and if you’re OK. You need someone who can help you reach your dreams and protect you from your fears. You need someone who will treat you with respect, love every part of you, especially your flaws. You should be with someone who could make you happy, really happy, dancing on air happy.”

What’s amazing is every person I’ve worked with has a different approach to work – not only how they approach a working day but their time off, their publicity, their entire way of life. And honestly they’re all mentors to me in so many ways. I learn something new every time I work

I genuinely believe Chris Hemsworth is a 6′3″, more muscular version of me. And more handsome, but I try.

Love, Rosie (2014) dir. Christian Ditter

I’m quite reserved. I enjoy listening more than I enjoy talking. And I’m usually really difficult to break, I have a guard up. I don’t know whether that’s because of the jobs that I’ve been on or whether it’s always been there, but I’m always really quiet to begin with.

“A part like Will Traynor is a dream. It was the most eye-opening experience and I feel like going through the experience has changed me. I know it sounds very clichéd & naive but I am now very aware when pavements aren’t level and curbs are too high or ramps aren’t available” Sam Claflin on playing Will Traynor in Me Before You

Be yourself. And don’t be afraid of life. I genuinely think you should learn to embrace challenges.

I have to prove myself in a lot of ways - as an actor, as a person, as someone who can handle pressure.

Americans are crazy for it. Yam with marshmallow under the grill, it’s delicious. (x)