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Sam Claflin ‘Can’t Help but Feel Attached’ to ‘Hunger Games,’ Talks ‘Sunrise on the Reaping’ While Promoting ‘The Count of Monte Cristo’
'The Hunger Games' actor Sam Claflin says franchise is 'huge part of my life,' gushes about working with Jeremy Irons in 'The Count of Monte Cristo'
Jesse Plemmons and Mckenna Grace recently joined leads Joseph Zada and Whitney Peak, who will play Haymitch Abernathy and Lenore Dove Baird in the Lionsgate film taking place 24 years before the original trilogy. Another literary adaptation, “The Count of Monte Cristo” sees the British actor in a very different role, playing Edmond Dantes, a sailor falsely accused of treason and unjustly imprisoned on an island fortress. Commenting on the physical and emotional transformation of his character, Claflin says he found the beginning of shooting “energetically very draining,” as the episodes were shot in reverse chronological order due to the scruffy look required in the early chapters.
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