Dylan O’Brien Defends Teen Wolf Amid Reward For His Current Roles

Dylan O’Brien passionately defends his time on Teen Wolf, candidly reflecting on an odd response he is acquired throughout press for his acclaimed film. The 34-year-old actor has been within the highlight for his twin position in Twinless. The darkish comedy, which is written, directed, and co-led by James Sweeney, has garnered a few of the greatest critiques of O’Brien’s profession.

Within the movie, O’Brien performs twin brothers Rocky and Roman, who each share a reference to Dennis (performed by Sweeney). To share far more in regards to the story can be to spoil its surprises for many who have not seen it but. It boasts a 97% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, with a 94% viewers approval, and it has earned O’Brien a nomination on the Unbiased Spirit Awards for Finest Lead Efficiency.

However throughout a current interview on Within the Envelope: The Actor’s Podcast, O’Brien opened up about a few of the responses to his efficiency in Twinless. The star of Love and Monsters and The Outfit talks about how some have been stunned by his portrayal due to his earlier work as Stiles Stilinski on Teen Wolf.

He additionally instantly addresses the bias that the trade has in opposition to actors in younger grownup films and tv reveals, underlining why he refuses to “knock” his time on Teen Wolf and calling it “the most effective faculty that I might have had.” Learn his remarks beneath:

Even nonetheless, you recognize, going again to this Twinless factor, such an fascinating piece of this journey of, like, being interviewed for this movie that, once more, type of en path to, like, lauding me. Like, it is kind of… persons are saying, “Hey, you are nice on this,” proper? They’re complimenting my efficiency. However so typically they’re beginning that sentence with, “It is surprising, given the place you began,” and it is like… it is virtually like what they’re saying is that they’re similar to, “I am so stunned that you just’re, like, good in one thing.” Like, it is weird. You are simply type of like, whoa. What do you imply? Like, is it… you recognize?

They usually’ll point out Teen Wolf. They’re going to actually point out it. , it is so humorous. And I am like, “Effectively, yeah, I imply, the blatant disrespect is fascinating right here, however I assume that is the way it works.” And I get what you are saying and, you recognize, yeah, I am conscious that that is the case. I’ve at all times believed in myself, although, and also you gotta begin someplace. I, like, do not know what to say, as a result of I additionally, I refuse to additionally, like, knock the present, too. I am not gonna be like, “I do know, proper? Like, so embarrassing.” I am not gonna discuss it that approach, as a result of I additionally do not feel that approach about it, you recognize.

Like, that was a f–king—so a lot of these children throughout the… so many children my age throughout these years go to those prestigious, like, faculties and packages, proper? And like, I went to, you recognize, Teen Wolf. I, like, went to the varsity of, like, Teen Wolf, you recognize. Nevertheless it was the most effective faculty that I might have had.

It’s an general very candid interview by O’Brien, who shares his view on why prestigious performing faculties do not at all times have a younger performer’s greatest pursuits in thoughts. He additionally mentions Robert Pattinson for example of a expertise who had been pigeonholed due to his work within the Twilightfranchise, however the largely dismissive view of actors in younger grownup franchises reignites in each decade.

Sarah Michelle Gellar was giving a few of the greatest performances on tv within the late Nineteen Nineties and early 2000s with Buffy the Vampire Slayer, particularly within the wrenching episode “The Physique.” Nevertheless, Gellar and Buffy had been each by no means embraced by the Emmys due to the slant in opposition to younger grownup dramas, particularly ones with a style component. The identical will be mentioned for Nina Dobrev’s time on The Vampire Diaries.

A part of O’Brien’s podcast dialog is in regards to the choices that actors have out there to them and the privilege of with the ability to select tasks. To the extent that he’s ready, O’Brien’s film selections lately have been enjoyably eclectic. There’s Twinless, which takes the viewer on a wild trip. There are his villainous turns in thrillers like Ponyboi and Anniversary.

However he’s additionally nonetheless up for being the hero of a unique sort within the twisty Caddo Lake or bringing the laughs in an SNL biopic. He’ll subsequent be seen in Sam Raimi’s Ship Assist, reverse Rachel McAdams, which releases in theaters on January 30, 2026. It is a larger studio film, from twentieth Century Studios, which can hopefully shine a highlight on why O’Brien has been among the many most fascinating and versatile actors since his run on Teen Wolf.