It was just a few weeks ago that we got our first official look at Sam Claflin as Finnick Odair The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, but once it was announced he got the part he received a lot of backlash from fans who didn't think he matched the part. And it turns out he had no idea what The Hunger Games was before seeing the movie and didn't know who Finnick was and what made him so important.
"Funnily enough, when I first went to see the first The Hunger Games, the original, I had no idea that it was a trilogy, Sam said in a new interview with Future Radio 107.8 FM. "I had no idea it was based on books. I just knew there was a big hype around – you know it was being called the new Twilight. And what have you."
"So I think I was curious as to what this big thing, this… You know, I was very curious. And kind of got the audition for this part of Finnick Odair. I was in Los Angeles. I remember saying ‘Who the hell is this Finnick?’"
"I tried to go on Wikipedia and do as much research as possible prior to my first audition," he continued. "Luckily I was kind of steered in the right direction by the casting director and the director himself."
But of course a lot of fans didn't agree with Sam being picked to play Finnick, so how did he deal with all that backlash?
"Funnily enough, when I first went to see the first The Hunger Games, the original, I had no idea that it was a trilogy, Sam said in a new interview with Future Radio 107.8 FM. "I had no idea it was based on books. I just knew there was a big hype around – you know it was being called the new Twilight. And what have you."
"So I think I was curious as to what this big thing, this… You know, I was very curious. And kind of got the audition for this part of Finnick Odair. I was in Los Angeles. I remember saying ‘Who the hell is this Finnick?’"
"I tried to go on Wikipedia and do as much research as possible prior to my first audition," he continued. "Luckily I was kind of steered in the right direction by the casting director and the director himself."
But of course a lot of fans didn't agree with Sam being picked to play Finnick, so how did he deal with all that backlash?
"I mean, I’m a member of Twitter and, you know, specially when it was first announced there was a huge backlash," he said. "Some positive and some very negative, you know, people were like saying they want to kill themselves, that I wasn’t anywhere near a good looking Finnick."
"Everyone has their own perception of what a good-looking person is. And basically, all I can do is do my best and you know it’s – you have to kinda try not reading the bad press or whatever, you know?"
Are you excited to see Sam take on the role of Finnick in The Hunger Games: Catching Fire ?
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"Everyone has their own perception of what a good-looking person is. And basically, all I can do is do my best and you know it’s – you have to kinda try not reading the bad press or whatever, you know?"
Are you excited to see Sam take on the role of Finnick in The Hunger Games: Catching Fire ?
Posted By: Joe