Sam Claflin was preparing to audition for the role of Billy Dunne in “Daisy Jones & the Six,” the Prime Video adaptation of Taylor Jenkins Reid’s bestselling novel about a fictional 1970s rock …
was preparing to audition for the role of Billy Dunne in “Daisy Jones & the Six,” the Prime Video adaptation of Taylor Jenkins Reid’s bestselling novel about a fictional 1970s rock band, he was told he’d have to sing a ’70s rock song. The trouble was, Claflin, a U.K.-born actor who admits music has never been his thing, didn’t know any. So he scoured the Apple Music app for a genre playlist and chose the only track he felt comfortable with.
At 36, Claflin is not new to auditioning: He landed his first film role in 2011 with “Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides,” and has since shown an impressive range, as Will Traynor in the tearjerker “Me Before You” and the ruthless fascist Oswald Mosley in “Peaky Blinders.” But he’s most recognizable from his role as Finnick Odair from the “Hunger Games” franchise — he played the charismatic revolutionary in 2013’s “Catching Fire” and the subsequent two “Mockingjay” movies.
Billy is a showy role for any actor, but Claflin, who’d experienced global success as Finnick, wanted it desperately. “I wanted to prove to myself that I could do things that are different and out of the box. I hoped that a few people would watch and think, ‘Oh, wow. Actually, he’s notthis guy.’ Now, especially — I’m not 23 with a six-pack and on the up-and-coming list anymore. I’m the older guy.”
“I’d been through quite a lot personally at the time,” Claflin says. “I was in a really bad place. I think I needed to work out a few kinks in my own life, to figure out who I was as this dad on my own in a house outnumbered by two toddlers. Then this job coming out the back of that was just the most fun, joyous fresh start.”
In early recording sessions, the actor relied heavily on a musical theater-style vibrato. When that didn’t fit Billy, he took a cue from rock band White Denim’s lead singer, James Petralli. “His voice is fucking incredible,” Claflin says. “I don’t do a very good impression of him at all. But that was sort of my guide. And then I got more confident with it and started playing around with my own style.
With more than a million copies of Reid’s novel sold since its publication in 2019, “Daisy Jones” is sure to have a built-in fan base when it premieres on March 3 — videos using #DaisyJonesAndTheSix have racked up more than 182 million views on TikTok.
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