It’s Sam’s third time working with Barbour Gold Standard and we couldn’t be more pleased with this new photoshoot and interviews. Sam said:

“I’ve always had at least one Barbour jacket in my wardrobe for different occasions,” says Claflin. “I think for me, it’s just always felt like a part of British life… you can wear a Barbour jacket and own it for decades.”

“I don’t like dressing up that much, so the level of formality is kind of where I’m happy.”

Read Sam’s full interview where he talks more about the partnership, his career and fatherhood on Flannels.com.

Our friend Jill also kindly shared with us scans from GQ Magazine where more photos are featured alongside another interview, you can read this here.

Ahead of the release of Sam’s upcoming movie, Every Breath You Take, check out all press interviews below:

Sam recently talked with Gentleman’s Journal about Peaky Blinders upcoming season 6, how he spent his lockdown and had to learn playing guitar. Check out his interview below:

Sam Claflin may be the only actor in the world whose life became busier after lockdown. It’s true. While most other thesps and theatrical types were busy pausing their productions, shutting their sets and heading home for a breather, Claflin’s life was getting more and more complicated by the minute.

It was early March, and the actor was stuck out in Los Angeles. He’d moved to California just days earlier for a new television project and, slap-bang in the middle of an (already rather stressful) relocation, the pandemic began to really heat up. In fact, Claflin had barely recovered from his jet lag when, right on inconvenient cue…

“The announcement came!” the actor himself announces down the phone line. “Lockdown! And, suddenly, after flying out there, I had two days to grab my stuff, leave L.A. and come back home again. At the time, I thought it would be a two-week quarantine in London, so I left my suitcase with a friend and said; ‘I’ll be back in two weeks’. It’s been there for months…”

A chuckle. A sigh. Claflin’s clearly mourning that long-lost suitcase. But he’s a resilient sort — and the 34-year-old is soon describing how good it feels to be back on set. A mere 12 months after he left Los Angeles, Claflin is calling me from his car. He’s on the way to work, filming the final series of razor-sharp ratings hit Peaky Blinders.

Read the full interview on the Gentleman’s Journal.

Man About Town UK magazine just revealed they will be featuring an exclusive interview with Sam: “Ahead of @amazon’s hugely anticipated series Daisy Jones and the Six, and with Love Wedding Repeat on @netflix now, we catch up with @mrsamclaflin about family, self-worth, and the importance of work ethic.”

Man About Town: 2020, Chapter 1 is available to order now from this link. We will keep you posted when we have the interview, in the meantime we can all appreciate this brand new photoshoot. Sam was photographed by Sam Wilson.

SCF were lucky to attend a special screening of The Nightingale at Curzon Soho in London on November 28th. Sam and co-star Aisling Franciosi also joined the audience for a special Q&A post screening. Watch the video below:

More photos here

Founder of SCF, Val, was also there to watch the movie, asked a question to Sam and congratulated him on the movie. It’s always a pleasure for us to help promote Sam’s movies behind the scenes. We would like to say a special thank you to Vertigo Release , we really enjoyed working with them on the release of this movie.

Below you will find more interviews of Sam and co-star Aisling Franciosi promoting the movie ahead of the release of the movie in the UK on Friday 29th.

• “For an actor often associated with heroic and romantic roles, Claflin found it hard to resist playing the profoundly unsympathetic officer who brutalises just about everything and everybody he touches” – read the full review The People’s Movies

• “As an actor, there’s always something quite attractive about pushing myself and challenging myself in new ways and, I suppose, learning what my limitations are and how comfortable I am to push myself and how far I’m willing to go.” – read Sam’s full interview with Yahoo UK

• “Claflin is the most surprising of all as the ruthless deviant Hawkins. Having primarily played dashing romantic protagonists, Claflin goes with frightening realism into the psyche of a man addicted to power and unable to control his rage.” – read the full review The Upcoming

• “It took a little while to get into the mindset of a man like that.” – Read Sam’s full interview with Yahoo UK 

• “Playing the detestable Lieutenant Hawkins, Sam Claflin continues a villainous streak he began playing fascist leader Oswald Mosley in the latest series of Peaky Blinders. It’s not hard to see why, as both performances are undeniably among his best. Hawkins is so horrifying primarily because he is so believable; he is unhinged in a way only men in power are allowed to be, hiding his capacity for extreme violence under a thin veneer of respectability. Whether engaging in disturbing acts of cruelty or sucking up to his superiors in hopes of a promotion, Claflin is note-perfect, delivering a performance as captivating as it is chilling.” –  read the full review Extended Cut 

• “Claflin delivers a career-defining characterisation as the heinous and entitled Hawkins, who takes out his frustrations at his lack of promotion on all those around him, including Clare.” – Read full review Morning Star 

• “Claflin in a brave performance puts his A-list looks to chilling use, playing someone whose outward appearance belies their inner evil.” –  Read full review HeadStuff

• “On the flip side, you have a character like Hawkins who is in every way shape and form a truly despicable person, yet humanity finds itself creeping into his black soul on occasions. It’s not enough to completely turn him around like it does to Claire, but the fact that there could well be a decent person in there makes him all the more detestable, because he clearly can do the right thing but frequently chooses not to. Every act of villainy he commits in this movie is filled with just as much ferocity as the film’s protagonist, from his mistreatment of Claire (he has his way with her at least twice in the first act) to treating his own men with utter contempt (among them Damon Herriman, who has also appeared this year in Once Upon A Time In Hollywood and Judy & Punch, and out of all three appearances the most likeable character he’s portrayed is Charles Manson – let THAT sink in), and Claflin does such a great job at making this guy so loathsome yet so raw and troubled that his own fierce emotions make him a movie villain you not only hate but genuinely fear.” – Read full review Film Feeder

• “Claflin plays the bad guy very well. He spits his lines with real disgust, forcing audiences to become fully enveloped within the drama and shameful goings-on we see on the screen. He effortlessly forces Clare and her husband Aidan – who also serves under the Lieutenant – into submission, putting his fellow serving members of the British Army to use so that he can get his hands on whatever, and whoever, he wants. When he doesn’t get his own way, we see how he reacts, and it’s gut-wrenching to say the very least” – Read full review Female First 

• “On the other hand, Kent unleashes the finest, most fearless performance of Claflin’s career. Frequently typecast as an everyday English nice guy, here he completely loses himself in a character which repeatedly pushes boundaries and comfort zones. Hawkins is unimaginably grotesque, and unthinkably evil, and Claflin entirely commits to his deviance. His accomplishment absolutely floored me” – Read full review Live for Film 

• “As Clare’s main tormentor, Sam Claflin makes for a truly detestable character but never descends into cartoon villainy. He’s an all too human character, which makes his actions seem all the more barbaric. There are a couple of brief moments that seem to explain his actions, without trying to justify them, including a shocking moment towards the end that suggest he’s more tortured than he first seems.” – Read full review Critical Popcorn 

On November 13th, Sam attended the Late Late Show with James Corden, alongside Beth Berths. Watch below Sam’s appearance on the show: