Dylan O’Brien Reveals He Has Anxiety Filming Action Scenes Since Maze Runner Set Injury

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Actor Dylan Oโ€™Brien is opening up his accident while working on the set of Maze Runner: The Death Cure. While filming, Oโ€™Brien, 29, was run over by a car and suffered multiple broken bones. That experience, the actor said, made him feel โ€œbroken.โ€

โ€œThat was a really hard comeback for me,โ€ Oโ€™Brien admitted on The Big Ticket with Marc Malkin podcast on Thursday. โ€œIโ€™ve kept this really, like, private for a long time. Iโ€™ve definitely spoken on it before, but it was a really hard journey back for me.โ€

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Actor Dylan Oโ€™Brien attends the Los Angeles Special Screening of โ€˜American Assassinโ€™ on September 12, 2017 in Hollywood, California. (Photo by Vivien Killilea/Getty Images for CBS Films)

The Teen Wolf star recalled being a bit more reckless during the time of the accident because he was early in his career.

โ€œEveryone is an expert in what they do on a set. So, especially when youโ€™re younger, like I was, I think I was about 24 when my accident happened, I was just game. I was game,โ€ he said of his willingness to do any stunt presented to him.

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Dylan Oโ€™Brien poses for the cameras at the โ€˜American Assassinโ€™ Minneapolis / St. Paul screening at AMC Theaters Rosedale on September 8, 2017 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. (Photo by Adam Bettcher/Getty Images for CBS Films)

Oโ€™Brien deals with the trauma of the incident by ensuring his own safety, but he still feels uneasy when put in the position to possibly get hurt again. โ€œWhenever Iโ€™m putting on a rig, Iโ€™m vetting every piece of that rig and much more,โ€ he noted.

โ€œEven to this day, if Iโ€™m on set and Iโ€™m doing a stunt, if Iโ€™m in a rig, if thereโ€™s some action going on, I am slightly irritable. There is a degree of anxiety in me that I donโ€™t think thereโ€™s ever not going to be.โ€

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Dylan Oโ€™Brien attends the MTV Teen Wolf Los Angeles premiere party at Dave & Busters on December 20, 2015 in Hollywood, California. (Photo by Getty Images)

Oโ€™Brien can be seen in his movie project Love and Monsters. Watch that trailer below.

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