Dylan O’Brien revealed that he had security issues on The Maze Runner: The Demise Treatment set earlier than an damage put him within the hospital.
“I discovered after the accident to not conflate taking good care of your self and taking care of your self,” O’Brien, 33, instructed Males’s Well being in a not too long ago printed interview. “Don’t allow them to manipulate you into pondering that’s being troublesome, as a result of I can have a look at that day and know I used to be a 24-year-old child who was elevating issues about how we have been approaching issues, they usually weren’t listened to, they weren’t revered. After which what occurred, occurred.”
O’Brien starred as Thomas within the movie franchise, which premiered with The Maze Runner — primarily based on the guide of the identical title by James Dashner — in 2014. The next 12 months, he reprised his position for the sequel, Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials.
Whereas filming the third film in 2016, O’Brien was hospitalized with a concussion, facial fracture and mind trauma, amongst different accidents, following an on-set incident. Manufacturing was placed on pause, however the actor finally returned to his position to complete the film. (Us Weekly has reached out to twentieth Century Fox for remark.)
“By all accounts, it was all fairly gotten away with, I might say, as nicely,” O’Brien instructed the journal earlier this month in regards to the “life-changing incident.”
“I’ve approached every little thing in another way, you would say, significantly close to standing my floor on set,” he continued. “It’s very commonplace within the tradition for younger actors to be managed.”
Based on the Teen Wolf alum, he was all the time inspired to not “turn into troublesome” or “a ache within the ass.” Nevertheless, he took away a serious studying lesson.
“On the finish of the day, in these areas, you may have your individual again, and that’s probably the most you may depend on,” he shared within the Males’s Well being interview. “I simply turned 33. I’ve been doing this for 15 years. I do know the individual I’m, and the character I carry to set, and the way in which I deal with individuals and the way in which that I deal with a workspace, and I do know I’m not troublesome.”
O’Brien added: “I do know I used to be attempting to guard myself that day, and so I’ve simply by no means forgotten that. That’s all the time rung true as being the factor to carry with me.”
The actor admitted it’s “a disgrace” that this expertise is all the time behind his thoughts. (O’Brien took a quick hiatus from Hollywood following his damage earlier than returning for 2017’s American Murderer.)
“There’s nothing flawed with asking questions. There’s nothing flawed with bringing concepts, even when we’re speaking creatively. It’s our job to carry concepts. There’s nothing flawed with elevating issues,” he concluded. “It’s a collaborative course of. It’s a inventive course of, but in addition you’re coping with massive harmful s— typically, too.”