Check out our brand new interview with Dylan O’Brien!
The 21-year-old actor has a hilarious new role in the comedy The Internship!
The film tells the story of Billy (Vince Vaughn) and Nick (Owen Wilson), fired salesman who try to prove they are not obsolete by getting an internship at Google with a bunch of young, brilliant college students.
Meanwhile, Dylan is also busy shooting the highly-anticipated upcoming film adaptation of The Maze Runner, while the third season of Teen Wolf just kicked off.
JJJ caught up with Dylan in between filming to get the scoop on his new movie!
Click inside to check out our interview with Dylan O’Brien…
JustJaredJr.com – Dylan O’Brien
JustJaredJr.com: Hi Dylan! So tell us about the audition process for this role.
Dylan O’Brien: It was cool. It was just a regular couple reads, regular audition at first. You go through a casting director and then you get to the directors and producers. And reading with Vince was the highlight of that process. That was the last step. We all got to go in and audition with Vince. He was so cool in the room and so giving. He would just riff with you forever. It was my longest audition I think I ever had. And most of which was all made up. The audition should have only taken five minutes, technically, but then Vince would make it a whole thing and you would just go with him. He’d basically just see if you could hang, kind of. It was cool because a lot of what we said in the audition room made it into the movie and it kind of established our dynamic with them.
JJJ: You’ve been doing comedy back since your YouTube days, but that had to be pretty intimidating.
DO: Well, hell yeah (laughs)! Yeah, I’m comfortable improving, more so than having lines I think. But the Vince factor and just auditioning in general is very nerve-racking. Going into a room, you have like eight people looking at you and you’re sitting there, and you just have to do it. But what was so great was that it was such an awesome room. I was comfortable instantly. Once Vince starts riffing with you, you kind of settle in. The producers were all fun and great too. Everyone was just laughing. It was a lot of fun. Intimidating for maybe like a second, definitely. How could it not be? But then instantly comfortable and just a great time.
JJJ: You play a nice guy in most of your roles. Was it nice to play sort of a jerk in this film?
DO: Yeah, it was so much fun. That was intimidating at first. I was so afraid, like “Oh my God, I don’t know if I’m going to be able to pull this off.” The whole dynamic I established with Vince was that I just this jerk to him. And I was like, “Are people going to buy that?” But yeah, it was so much fun. And he does come around. Vince and Owen’s characters teach him to open up and let his guard down, let loose and have fun for a second and not be so uptight and dismissive of everyone around him.
JJJ: You look pretty good in those hipster glasses! Those were fake, right?
DO: Yeah, they were fake. When we went in for my first fitting, we were just like establishing what was happening and they were giving me this hipster-y vibe, all these layers with cardigans and stuff. I thought it was hilarious. And then so, the glasses for me, were just the classic top-off. I don’t know why, but it just so perfectly put together that sort of hipster-y… like “If I have to wear glasses, I want to make them cool glasses” thing, you know? Shawn [Levy] loved the lgasses too. So from then, we were just full-on with the glasses and the beanie too (laughs).
JJJ: If you could intern anywhere, where would it be?
DO: Google, for sure (laughs). If it’s anything like we shot, that’s the one to do. Just for the sake of answering the question, Google. I have no shot, obviously. But that would be even kind of fun going into with no shot because then it takes all the pressure off and I can just have fun (laughs).
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