The following day, Darden received a call saying the film’s producers were interested in him–and even wanted to make an offer. Regarding Dexter Darden who plays Frypan, Darden recalls, “I just remember calling my agent and being like, ‘This is the worst day I had the worst audition in my life!” Fortunately, Ball begged to differ. In fact, she was Ball’s first choice right from the start as he had seen her on the TV show Skins beforehand. I walked out of probably crying and eating at McDonald’s straight after to make myself feel better.” But, Ball insists that Kaya fit the way he pictured Teresa as he had read the novels from which the film was adapted, The Maze Runner series by James Dashner. ‘That guy,’ I said, ‘No, definitely not him.’ So we brought him back in, and we started to talk with him, and I’m like, ‘He’s the coolest dude ever.'”Įnglish actress Kaya Scodelario was convinced she did not land the part of Teresa after auditioning. And I was like ‘Whoa, interesting.’ I said, ‘Wait a minute, he’s just so familiar,’ and I looked back at my old audition tapes–which we had thousands of–and there’s Dylan. “So I watched his tape and was like, ‘Wait a minute, I’ve seen this kid before.’ I looked him up online, and there was one picture of him with a totally shaved head, and it’s this sweet, vulnerable-looking kid. It was the film’s distributor, Fox, that recommended O’Brien after seeing his performance in The Internship. And then the next movies are about the leader that emerges from the group.” It’s about vulnerability up front, and then he comes out of it and comes into his own. And so we were looking for our Thomas, and it’s a tough role to make because he comes in as a boy, and he leaves as a man–so it can’t be like this badass action star that comes into this movie. He had ‘Teen Wolf’ hair, and I couldn’t see past that. It was a big learning experience there because I overlooked him because of his hair. “Dylan was actually … I saw him early on, very early on, and I overlooked him. The director recalls how he felt certain O’Brien was not a good fit for the role, saying: But if Ball had listened to his initial instincts, that would not have been the case. Recently, the Maze Runner director, Wes Ball took a look back at the casting process for the lead actors and described what stood out and why.įirst off, Ball asserts, “Dylan is the reason we have this franchise,” referring to Dylan O’ Brien who stars as the lead, Thomas. The lead actors in the teen dystopian science-fiction action films have essentially grown up together, and are forever bonded and grateful for the experience of being cast in the popular series. In fact, all of the films in the Maze Runner trilogy opened at number-one. Maze Runner: The Death Cure was rated number-one at the North American box-office during its opening weekend.
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