Dylan O’Brien has praised Mark Rylance after he stood up to studio bosses while they were working together.
The actor spoke about the time the pair were filming a scene for the 2022 movie, The Outfit, which both actors thought they had wrapped only to find the next day they had to revisit the scene.
“I kind of made a joke about it, because I didn’t want to make a fuss in a way that you’re gaslit to not do in your early twenties,” O’Brien recalled.
“But then I watched Mark Rylance – during this simmering sort of tension that lasted about 90 minutes – say, ‘This is absolutely unacceptable,’ and have it really be heard and respected and honoured. We then got to step off and go prepare, and we got to take as much time as we needed.”
He added: “Even then [Rylance] was amazing. He was like, ’I’m being a little bit of a bitch, but it’s a firm boundary I want to stand up for. Do you think I’m being too much of a …?’ And I was like, ‘No, no, no. It’s amazing. I love you for this. It’s an absolute boundary cross, and I love that you stood up for that.’ So I’ve never forgotten that moment, and the way he did it was firm but not unkind.”
It comes, after O’Brien recently said that his concerns on set about the Maze Runner: The Death Cure movie in 2016 “were not listened to” before he suffered a near-death experience.
The actor was severely injured in a stunt in Vancouver in March 2016, which resulted in production being shut down for a period before the film was eventually completed and released in 2018.
The accident left him with a concussion, a facial fracture and brain trauma.
O’Brien is currently starring in the biographical comedy film Saturday Night which tells the behind-the-scenes story of Saturday Night Live‘s premiere episode on October 11, 1975.
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