Catching Fire is coming out next weekend, which means you can soon look forward to over two hours of basic cable CGI while quibbling over casting choices under your breath. Goody! As you hate-watch the latest Hunger Games installment, however, just remember the toll it has taken on the psyche of Sam Claflin, the unfortunate dude who was cast as Finnick Odair and has had to listen for the last several months how he’s too fat and ugly and bland to really do Finnick justice.
That’s an exaggeration — probably nobody thinks Claflin is goblin-ugly (except goblins, who no doubt look at his blemish-free skin and even teeth and go, “YUCK, he doesn’t even have a single boil and his eyes are the same size!”). People have, however, been more than willing to comment on how he falls short of Finnick’s superhuman attractiveness, a major plot point in Catching Fire. Sure, Claflin’s handsome, but is he Finnick handsome? Not according to Claflin, whose media tour has included a lot of self-inflicted criticism about his own body.
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