A young aspiring soccer player watches his dreams fade due to an injury that keeps him out of the game. The start of Sam Claflin’s life sounds like a script of a blockbuster hit movie. However while this man has been in plenty of movies over the recent years he comes from quite humble beginnings. Neither of his parents were in the industry, his mother a school room assistant and his father an accountant and finance manager of a charity radio station (Bio), both of his parents couldn’t have been farther from the industry that Sam Claflin finds himself in today. Born June 27th, 1986 in Ipswich, Suffolk, England, a young Sam Claflin had aspirations to play league soccer in Norwich. When suddenly that dream came crashing down at age sixteen, during a friendly game with friends, the young
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Despite these two roles Sam has had trouble to really get out of the typecast, he had been put in. However this type cast has landed him the starring roles in two movies over the last two years; Love Rosie (2014) was the first movie where he plays the male lead role and in Love Rosie he plays alongside Lily Collins as Alex Stewart a goofy man in love with his best friend and how in life they continuously missed opportunities to be together until the end. One of his most notable works has to be his recent movie Me Before You (2016). This latest work of his has to be one of my favorites. In this film, it showed the type of actor that Sam was. Taking on the challenging role of Will Traynor who became quadriplegic after a motorcycle accident, Sam gave a statement in an interview on how he got to understand Will; “"One of the earliest things I learned as an actor was to never judge your character, to never think anything he does is wrong," Sam Claflin said. "You have to understand why he makes certain decisions or why he does certain things, why he 's in a certain situation or a certain circumstance and work back from there."” (Hollywood Reporter) While this film has received quite a
Despite these two roles Sam has had trouble to really get out of the typecast, he had been put in. However this type cast has landed him the starring roles in two movies over the last two years; Love Rosie (2014) was the first movie where he plays the male lead role and in Love Rosie he plays alongside Lily Collins as Alex Stewart a goofy man in love with his best friend and how in life they continuously missed opportunities to be together until the end. One of his most notable works has to be his recent movie Me Before You (2016). This latest work of his has to be one of my favorites. In this film, it showed the type of actor that Sam was. Taking on the challenging role of Will Traynor who became quadriplegic after a motorcycle accident, Sam gave a statement in an interview on how he got to understand Will; “"One of the earliest things I learned as an actor was to never judge your character, to never think anything he does is wrong," Sam Claflin said. "You have to understand why he makes certain decisions or why he does certain things, why he 's in a certain situation or a certain circumstance and work back from there."” (Hollywood Reporter) While this film has received quite a