Shropshire Star

Sam Claflin: Fatherhood made me a more open and sensitive person

The actor has two young children with wife Laura Haddock.

Published
Supporting image for story
Sam Claflin

Sam Claflin has said fatherhood has made him “a more open and sensitive person”.

The Hunger Games star shares two children with wife Laura Haddock, son Pip, three, and daughter Margot, one.

Their second child was born just a few weeks before Claflin started filming his new movie The Corrupted, and the actor said it impacted how he saw his role as a former criminal trying to win back the trust of his family.

He told the Press Association: “I think it’s just made me a more open and sensitive person, honestly.

“I think the thought of losing a child is something incomparable and of course there is a moment in this where his son goes missing and I think it wasn’t hard to trigger that emotion, honestly.

“But it also was a very tiring process because I was going home every night, and the commute from east to west was quite substantial but doing that when you have a newborn baby at home was very trying. It was very trying.