{"id":986,"date":"2026-02-06T16:22:36","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T06:22:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rhinoeasy.com\/?p=986"},"modified":"2026-02-06T16:22:36","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T06:22:36","slug":"sam-claflin-opens-up-about-body-dysmorphia-around-shirtless-scenes-im-incredibly-insecure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rhinoeasy.com\/?p=986","title":{"rendered":"Sam Claflin Opens Up About Body Dysmorphia Around Shirtless Scenes: \u201cI\u2019m Incredibly Insecure\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With more than 15 years since his acting debut, Sam Claflin admittedly still has insecurities about seeing himself onscreen.<\/p>\n<p>The 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>\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 Happy Place 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>Claflin 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>Watch on Deadline<\/p>\n<p>Last year, the actor told The Telegraph 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>\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<p><strong>Source: RhinoEasy News<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With more than 15 years since his acting debut, Sam Claflin admittedly still has insecurities about seeing himself onscreen. The<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":985,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhinoeasy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhinoeasy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhinoeasy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhinoeasy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhinoeasy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rhinoeasy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/986\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhinoeasy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhinoeasy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhinoeasy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhinoeasy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}