Yahoo Lifestyle Dylan O’Brien Says He Was “Not Listened To” Ahead of “Life-Changing” Accident on ‘The Maze Runner’ Set
While Dylan O'Brien is gearing up to release his latest movie, Saturday Night, his star had initially risen thanks to The Maze Runner film franchise. In case you didn't obsessively annotate your Maze Runner novels and watch the flicks when they dropped in theaters, Dylan played the lead role of Thomas in each adaptation from 2014 to 2018.
As he filmed the final movie, The Death Cure, the actor got into a serious accident on set when he was suddenly pulled off of a moving vehicle and hit by another. Because of the incident, production on the third film was pushed back and it was released nearly 2 years after his recovery.
In a new interview with Men's Health, Dylan opened up about the "life-changing" accident and how it impacted how he "stands his ground" on set. "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," he explained to the outlet.
He added, "I learned after the accident to not conflate taking care of yourself and looking after yourself. 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. And by all accounts, it was all pretty gotten away with, I would say, as well."
The Teen Wolf alum also got candid about how his mindset has changed after working in the industry for 15 years. "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," he said before clarifying, "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."
As for his upcoming project, Saturday Night, Dylan felt he was mistakenly cast as OG SNL cast member, Dan Aykroyd.
"I was self-conscious that I didn't look like him, that I didn't sound like him, that I thought people wouldn’t think me—Dan Aykroyd. And I guess it was an insecurity that I would be skewered for being miscast or something," he explained, adding that Dan was hands-off during the process and they hadn't met till the film premiered at TIFF in September.
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