Dylan O’Brien is opening up in regards to the security considerations he had on the set of The Maze Runner: The Demise Treatment, which resulted within the actor sustaining critical accidents in an accident whereas filming.
The Saturday Evening star regarded again on the “life-changing incident” throughout a current interview with Males’s Well being. In 2016, O’Brien was taking pictures the third installment within the Maze Runner franchise when he was pulled off the highest of a transferring automobile unexpectedly whereas carrying a harness and hit by one other automobile.
“I’ve approached everything differently, you could say, particularly with regards to standing my ground on set,” he mentioned of how the expertise impacted his life. “It’s very commonplace in the culture for young actors to be controlled, and the way they strive to do that is by always being like, ‘Oh, don’t become difficult. Don’t be a pain in the ass. Or are you complaining, are you being difficult?’ Things like that.”
Following his accident, the Teen Wolf alum mentioned he’s realized to face his floor on set, and never let taking good care of your self be conflated to being troublesome.
“Don’t let them manipulate you into thinking that is being difficult, because I can look at that day and know I was a 24-year-old kid who was raising concerns about how we were approaching things, and they were not listened to, they were not respected. And then what happened, happened,” O’Brien mentioned. “And by all accounts, it was all pretty gotten away with, I would say, as well.”
He continued, “It’s taught me that, at the end of the day, in these spaces, you have your own back, and that’s the most you can rely on. I just turned 33. I’ve been doing this for 15 years. I know the person I am, and the character I bring to set, and the way I treat people and the way that I treat a workspace, and I know I’m not difficult. I know I’m not an asshole. I know I was trying to protect myself that day, and so I’ve just never forgotten that. That’s always rung true as being the thing to hold with me.”
The Ponyboi actor beforehand advised The Hollywood Reporter in 2017 that he was grateful for his movie American Murderer because it was his first challenge following his accident.
“It was a really hard time that I was going through, and it was definitely difficult to wrap my brain around it and go out and do it, but at this point, I just couldn’t be more thankful that I did,” he mentioned on the time. “I feel like it was really helpful for me in a lot of ways. It will always be a really personal movie to me. It was huge for me, really. It was like getting back on my feet.”
