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Dylan O'Brien's onscreen appears have solely gotten hairier since his Teen Wolf days, however all his mustaches weren’t created equal.
Whereas selling his new movie Twinless on the Sundance Movie Pageant alongside director and costar James Sweeney, the actor mirrored on the variations between two of his latest display 'staches in a dialog with Leisure Weekly.
"We shot [Twinless] earlier than Saturday Night, and that was not my mustache — that was a faux one," O'Brien mentioned of the Saturday Night Live biopic. "They made me put on a faux one for Aykroyd as a result of they mentioned my hair follicles didn't match Dan Aykroyd's."
Dylan O'Brien doesn't remember if he met Dan Aykroyd before playing him in Saturday Night
O'Brien's Twinless mustache, nonetheless, was 100% actual. "This was mine," he defined. When requested if he most popular sporting his personal facial hair slightly than a faux mustache, O'Brien admitted, "I'm slightly biased, however yeah. Additionally, carrying a faux mustache day-after-day when it's humid in Georgia within the late summer season —"
Sweeney jumped in with a query: "Did you need to shave to maintain it caught?"
"Yeah, all the time," O'Brien confirmed. "And it was all the time coming off and getting in my mouth and stuff. No matter, I can't complain. It was a straightforward, nice job."
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Shortly earlier than Saturday Night time hit theaters final October, O'Brien informed EW that he had his doubts about his bodily resemblance to the Ghostbusters actor — or every other authentic SNL solid member, for that matter.
"I simply felt like I didn't match Aykroyd nor Chevy Chase, so I didn't even ship the [audition] tape in," he mentioned. "I assume I assumed that I didn't actually resemble him, which isn't an enormous deal, however then I used to be seeing all of the casting bulletins, and I used to be like, 'Wait, what the f—? Everyone completely appears like their particular person.'"
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O'Brien additionally beforehand informed EW that he was drawn to Twinless — by which he performs a personality mourning the lack of his twin brother — as a result of he was intrigued by the dynamic between twins. "I'm fascinated by it when it comes to it being one thing so distinctive on this earth," he mentioned in an interview. "That’s a type of issues that actually, except you expertise it, you possibly can't perceive."
He continued, "Twinless help teams exist as a result of it’s a very particular loss and trauma that you just want help with — dropping a connectivity that us normies can't ever fairly perceive. That deeply resonated with me, regardless that I don't have a twin. I discovered it to be a extremely compelling and heart-wrenching heart to this story. This tragically poignant story of this child dropping his different half."
The actor was additionally impressed by the movie's screenplay, which Sweeney wrote. "The script was so unbelievable and dialed in from the time I first learn it," O'Brien mentioned. "I authentically related to all of it. It was a type of great inventive experiences."
Further reporting by Calie Schepp.
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