The actor, who plays the leader of a rock band in the series, was no such thing early on. “I look back at videos of me playing [guitar] when I first started and I was horrendous.”
Playing Billy Dunne in “Daisy Jones & the Six” was a notably therapeutic experience for Sam Claflin. The British actor was grappling with major life changes when he was cast in early 2020, right before the pandemic disrupted the show’s production schedule. Claflin had recently separated from his wife but hadn’t yet dealt with his emotions.
Claflin came into the Prime Video limited series, based on the novel by Taylor Jenkins Reid, after an audition process he describes as a “tornado of mayhem.” He initially met with Hello Sunshine about the second season of “The Morning Show,” but the production company quickly suggested he read the scripts forThe series, about a fictional ‘70s rock band’s tumultuous rise to fame and subsequent breakup, was immediately compelling, as was the chance to play a rock musician.
“I look back at videos of me playing when I first started, and I was horrendous,” he recalls. “I’m one of those actors: I’m never proud of anything I’ve done. I’m very self critical. But watching ‘Daisy Jones’ is the first time that I’ve gone, ‘You know what, I’m very proud of how far I came.’ It would have been a very different show had COVID not happened. There would have been a lot of camera trickery and miming.
To create a realistic yet nuanced version of a ‘70s rock star, Claflin also looked at footage of musicians of the time, including Bruce Springsteen. He had the reference point of Fleetwood Mac, on whom the novel was loosely based, and his cooler-than-you ensemble of double denim was drawn right from the book. But ultimately Claflin wanted to focus on Billy as a father, husband, friend and brother and not as a stereotypical musician.
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