Dylan O’Brien Talks Playing an Unlikable Character In ‘Not Okay’ Movie: ‘F–boys Are Everywhere!’

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Going method! Dylan O’Brien was asked to transform into an e-boy influencer for his film Not Okay — and he had no trouble getting into character.“I think it was so dead-on because it’s just like all we see,” O’Brien, 30, told Entertainment Weekly in an interview published Thursday, July 28. “I feel like, you’re just scrolling through news and it’s like, ‘Oh, thirst trap!’ The f—boys are everywhere!

Gotta watch out.”Not Okay stars Zoey Deutch as Danni Sanders, a desperate and lonely wannabe writer who fakes a trip to Paris while hiding out in her Brooklyn apartment.

When a terrorist attack hits the City of Love, she uses the tragedy to become a social media celebrity. O’Brien, for his part, plays opposite Deutch, 27, as love interest — a clout-chasing micro influencer desperate for fame.Studying the internet’s biggest content creators, the Teen Wolf alum knew he wanted to dedicate himself fully to the role. “From the first conversation with [director] Quinn early on, I was just like, ‘I want to go full-on, just like full tats, bleach the hair,’” the Love and Monsters star explained, adding that he had “an incredible team of people that assembled it entirely for me.”The New York native, who improvised many of his lines due to being so “locked into” the character, told EW on Thursday that he “loved” playing the role so much, he would “go back and do it better” if he could.“Somebody had tipped me off to, like, a f—boy greeting of, like, ‘Let me get a huggie,'” O’Brien recalled of some of his improv, before admitting that the person who told him about the line “was a girl I was seeing at the time.”Earlier this month, the Maze Runner actor expanded on how his previous relationship serendipitously helped inspire him to play