"I get really worked up to the point where I spend hours and hours in the gym and not eating for weeks to achieve what I think they're going for."
Claflin's next movie My Cousin Rachel is a little bit more relaxed and allows the star to wear "puffy shirts and britches" to give off a ritzy, posh vibe of early nineteenth century Italy.
"In the '50s and '60s, it was never an issue," he said. "James Bond never had a six pack. He had a hairy chest. Marlon Brando in A Streetcar Named Desire had an incredible body, but he was by no means ripped to within an inch of his life."
