Name: The Hunger Games: Catching Fire premiere: Sam Claflin interview
Uploaded: 2016-06-21T05:41:09.000Z
Duration: 1 min 51 s
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So Finnick, a bit of an old smoothie, is he not?

He tries. There's definitely that on his exterior being, but I think... You know, beneath that

like charismatic, confident and very sexually manipulative exterior is a very insecure,

broken soul, and I think that's what really attracted me to the part.

So it was quite a leap for you to get into that then.

Yeah, yeah... It definitely was. Mainly physically I think. You only have to read the introduction

to him in the novels to realise that I'm nothing like Finnick Odair, so it was a bit of a stretch,

and I'm surprised that the actors... sorry the director was able to see past my ugly

exterior to kind of give me the opportunity.

Oh stop. Come on, you're gorgeous. Don't worry.

I've heard one of the hardest parts that you got shot was fighting the invisible monkeys.

How do I fight one? Yeah. You just swing. Swing and swing and swing some more like I

don't know. I was hitting bushes and Jennifer. You know, anything that looks half like a

I mean, it was really, really difficult for all of us to use our imagination. For a lot

of the film, I felt like we weren't actually acting. NAR, I call it. No acting required.

But it was really, really tough at times. We kind of worked as hard as we could to kind

Did you get in trouble if you hit Jennifer Lawrence on the Hunger Games set?

I actually didn't. I left a really big imprint of my weapon on her buttock. You can ask her

about that later. It was a very special moment we shared, all of the crew and the cast shared

that moment and I can only say that I'm sorry.