Dylan O'Brien Overcomes Fear to Film New Movie
by EG
For Dylan O’Brien, taking on the high-energy role of a CIA hit man was no easy task after he spent months recovering from an accident he suffered last year on the set of the Maze Runner‘s third film.
O’Brien, 25, was in the end stages of recovery when he began filming American Assassin, for which he went through intense combat training. Now, the actor admits he was hesitant to take on the physically demanding role so soon after he was hit by a car on the set of The Maze Runner: The Death Cure.
“The state that you’re in after something like that, you just want to run from all that stuff,” O’Brien told Entertainment Tonight. “I didn’t really even want to leave my couch necessarily when I was allowed to. So, yeah. It was a big step doing this.”
In March 2016, O’Brien suffered a “concussion, facial fracture and lacerations” after being hurled from a moving vehicle and hit by another car, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Production was halted in late April and O’Brien stayed out of the spotlight for months, emerging last August with a thick beard and longer hair.
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Dylan O'Brien also appeared in Teen Wolf.