Dylan O'Brien has opened up about the safety concerns he had on set The labyrinth: the death curewhich led to the actor suffering serious injuries in an accident during filming.
THE Saturday evening The star looked back on the “incident that changed her life” during a recent interview with Men's health. In 2016, O'Brien was filming the third installment of the series Maze runner franchise when he was unexpectedly pulled off the roof of a moving vehicle while wearing a harness and struck by another vehicle.
“I approached everything differently, you might say, particularly as far as holding my ground on set,” he said of how that experience affected his life. “It's very common in our culture for young actors to be controlled, and the way they force themselves to do that is to always say, 'Oh, don't get difficult. Don't be a pain in the ass. Or do you complain, are you difficult?' Things like that.”
Following his accident, the Adolescent wolf the alum said he's learned to stand his ground on set and not let taking care of himself get confused with being difficult.
“Don't let them manipulate you into thinking it's difficult, because I can look at that day and know that I was a 24-year-old kid raising concerns about how we were dealing with things, and they weren't listened to, they weren't respected. And then that that happened, it happened,” O'Brien said. “And by all accounts, I would say it went smoothly, too.”
He continued: “It taught me that, ultimately, in these spaces, your back is against the wall, and that's the most you can count on. I just turned 33. I have been doing this job for 15 years. I know the person I am, the character I bring to the set, the way I treat people and the way 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, so I've never forgotten it. This has always been the right thing to keep with me.
THE Ponyboi the actor has already said The Hollywood journalist in 2017 that he was grateful for his film American assassin as it was his first project after the accident.
“It was a really tough time that I was going through, and it was definitely hard to wrap my head around this and go out and do it, but at this point, I couldn't be more grateful that I did it,” he said at the time. “I feel like it's been really helpful to me in a lot of ways. For me it will always be a truly personal film. It was huge for me, really. It was like getting back on my feet.”