CraveOnline: You say he’s naked in that moment. I view acting as working in layers upon layers upon layers, so just being confessional sounds scary to me, even just when you’re acting.
Sam Claflin: Yeah.
Yeah?
I mean, slightly. I definitely felt naked, if you know what I mean. I felt like everyone was watching me. [Laughs.] I felt like everyone was expecting a lot from me, so therefore… I remember Francis being complimentary in the sense that I was well-prepared for it. Like, I’d learned my lines. I was sort of surprised that people don’t learn their lines. How do normal people do this? This is normal to me, that I have one small job, that’s to learn my lines, turn up to set on time, and here I am! And hopefully act it well. But he was very happy that I’d done a lot of work behind it, that I had an idea of where I wanted to go with it.
It was well prepared, so that therefore… Doing these sorts of scenes, doing any form of acting, any scene you do feels quite, quite naked, and feels like I’m allowing a part of myself to be looked at, you know? So that was just in addition to the amount of other things like that.
“I was sort of surprised that people don’t learn their lines.”
So all the films are wrapped, yes?
Yeah. Yes.
Have you done anything to commemorate the occasion? Are you going to get a tattoo or anything to remember the experience?
[Laughs.] It’s still not over yet, so there’s potential for anything. I’ve definitely not discussed any sort of real symbolic remembrance. I think the memory of this film will forever kind of be remembered anyway, so I don’t think that I need anything to commemorate this experience. However, like I said, we’ve still got another film to come, so we still have a year to decide on something if we do decide on something. We shall see.
Did you get to keep your trident, at least?
I didn’t get to keep my trident. I got to keep my rope, which is pretty special. [Laughs.] I won’t tie a knot every again, but nonetheless it was a nice little memento.
William Bibbiani is the editor of CraveOnline’s Film Channel and the host of The B-Movies Podcast and The Blue Movies Podcast. Follow him on Twitter at @WilliamBibbiani.
