Dylan O'Brien was left 'so f--king broken' after 'Maze Runner' accident - New York Post

O’Brien, 29, said he was “a mess” and “felt so f–king broken” following the mishap, which occurred while filming a stunt.

“A lot of things in my life were changing and were difficult at that time.

I was fighting it for a while, and freaking out that I felt so f–king broken,” he recently told Deadline.

While promoting his new mystery, “The Education Of Fredrick Fitzell,” O’Brien said he connected strongly with that film’s script.

Directed by Christopher MacBride, the movie tells the story of a young man, played by O’Brien, who faces “an existential crisis” and “literally and metaphorically journeys into his past,” according to the official description released when O’Brien’s casting was announced.

I had been allowing myself to be in this pretty f–ked up, lost place,” said O’Brien, who was 24 at the time of his on-set accident in Vancouver, Canada.

The film surrounds a guy who is baulking at the next stage of his life, he’s dealing with tremendous loss, and at that time in his life he reached back, to a specific night.

O’Brien elaborated that the emotions he felt following his accident correlated to a degree with those he experienced while making the new movie.

“It really helped a lot, actually,” he said while promoting the action flick “American Assassin” at the time

“It sort of became in a way that step that I needed in recovery to know I could do it again, I could still be on a set and things could be done in the right way, too, and things could be done safely in the way that they’re supposed to be done.”

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