Dylan O’Brien revealed that he had security considerations on The Maze Runner: The Loss of life Remedy set earlier than an harm put him within the hospital.

“I realized after the accident to not conflate caring for your self and taking care of your self,” O’Brien, 33, instructed Males’s Well being in a lately revealed interview. “Don’t allow them to manipulate you into pondering that’s being troublesome, as a result of I can take a look at that day and know I used to be a 24-year-old child who was elevating considerations 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 yr, 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 ultimately 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 effectively,” O’Brien instructed the journal earlier this month in regards to the “life-changing incident.”

“I’ve approached all the pieces in another way, you might say, notably with reference to standing my floor on set,” he continued. “It’s very commonplace within the tradition for younger actors to be managed.”

In keeping with the Teen Wolf alum, he was at all times 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 have got your personal again, and that’s probably the most you’ll be able to 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 convey to set, and the best way I deal with folks and the best way 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 at all times rung true as being the factor to carry with me.”

The actor admitted it’s “a disgrace” that this expertise is at all times at the back of his thoughts. (O’Brien took a short hiatus from Hollywood following his harm earlier than returning for 2017’s American Murderer.)

“There’s nothing mistaken with asking questions. There’s nothing mistaken with bringing concepts, even when we’re speaking creatively. It’s our job to convey concepts. There’s nothing mistaken with elevating considerations,” he concluded. “It’s a collaborative course of. It’s a artistic course of, but in addition you’re coping with massive harmful s— generally, too.”