Sam Claflin: I love my kids more than my job
Sam Claflin has revealed that his kids will always be his top priority.
Sam Claflin misses his kids when he's working.
The 39-year-old actor - who has Pip, nine, and Margot, seven, with his ex-wife Laura Haddock - spends prolonged periods of time away from home while filming movies and TV shows, but Sam admits that his kids will always be his number one priority.
Sam - who stars in Prime Video’s new thriller series, Lazarus - told Us Weekly: "God bless their mum, who was holding down the fort whilst I was away. It was my way of forgetting everything. When I’m with them, it’s all about them.
"I do what I do, in a sense, for them. I love my job, but I love my kids more, and I miss them. I think being a parent just allows you the opportunity to kind of open yourself up in a way that you never thought you would."
Sam plays a forensic physiologist called Joel in the new thriller series, and he admits that making the show was an "eye opening experience".
He said: "Playing Joel definitely allowed me to explore parts of my childhood and my life in a way that I never had.
"When you’re honest with yourself and you start really digging deep and figuring out why you keep doing certain things, I think it’s quite an eye opening experience."
Sam actually found making the series to be an emotionally draining experience, too.
The actor confessed to feeling "a roller coaster ride of emotions" during the shoot.
He said: "It was just a really emotionally turbulent two weeks. At the end of each day, I’d have no voice left.
"It was a very strenuous time. The whole process of filming was like a roller coaster ride of emotions, and ups and downs, and twists and turns."
Meanwhile, Sam previously admitted that he pushed himself too far in a "desperate" bid to be nominated for an Oscar.
He told GQ Hype: "I went through a stage of desperately vying for an Oscar but doing things that were really not me. Physically, emotionally transforming myself.
"[2018 film The Nightingale] was too far the other way. I think that was the turning point in my life. I don’t think I could do that again."
