Dylan O'Brien Talks 'Ponyboi' Transformation From the Hair to the Tattoos | Sundance 2024 - video Dailymotion

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'Ponyboi' stars Dylan O'Brian, Victoria Pedretti, River Gallo, Indya Moore and Director Esteban Arango stop by The Hollywood Reporter's studio during the Sundance film festival and detail the intricate look of Dylan O'Brian's character, from how he should style his hair to the tattoos on his body.

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00:00When I moved to L.A., I just, like, longed to be back in New Jersey, and it's, I think it's a place

00:08that I think has produced some of the greatest artists of our time.

00:14What is one word or phrase that you would use to describe your experience on the film?

00:20In production.

00:21Mm-hmm.

00:24Intersectional.

00:25All me in the wordplay there. I like it.

00:30Who wants to file?

00:34Transformative.

00:40Honey, that was good.

00:44I don't want to take it away, guys.

00:50My next.

00:53I like transformative, honestly.

00:57Just a blast. I had a fucking blast.

00:59Blast.

00:59Yeah.

01:00I guess I turned that into multiple words and said, fuck.

01:04Sorry.

01:05Yeah, no.

01:06At the end of the day.

01:09Do you, Dylan, do you want to describe your character and the inspiration for your appearance

01:16and your vibe and look?

01:18Yeah, this was, uh, uh, talk about the collaborative process, um, there were some conversations early

01:26on, uh, I think we, we all had our own ideas, three of us, and those all kind of intersected,

01:36uh, came together, uh, like, I remember you and I, uh, having, like, a hair thing.

01:48Oh, yeah.

01:49Do you remember?

01:49I had a lot of hair ideas.

01:50Because you had a lot of, you had a very, like, Pauly D, like, inspo hair thing, and I really

01:55wanted to cut it short, and, uh, and just, like, all the pieces started coming together,

02:01right?

02:01We had this barber do this, like, really, like, cool cut on me that just sort of combined

02:08all, remember that day in the trailer when we were doing it?

02:10Like, uh, uh, we were, like, doing the, like, goatee, and, like, you were, like, leave the

02:15chin strap.

02:16I was like, you sure?

02:17Yeah.

02:18You know?

02:19And then, like, you fought for the chin strap and kept it.

02:20I mean, thankfully, uh, because I love it.

02:24And yeah, just, and just, like, adding the slits and the eyebrows and the, um, being the

02:28tattoos, uh, uh, Esteban literally, uh, texted me about a tattoo idea that instant, like, early

02:35on when I, I first, uh, came on board, and I was like, I love it, uh, and I'll leave

02:39it as a surprise.

02:41Um, and yeah, it just kind of came together and really informed me.

02:44I mean, those things just help so much, especially with, uh, something that I, you know, was, was

02:51a departure for me, for sure.

02:52You know, it's not who I am, by any means.

02:54I definitely felt like I knew exactly, like, I knew this guy, like, I knew kids like this.

02:59I knew exactly what's, what I wanted to do, but all those things just really evolve as

03:04you start, like, the process comes together and, like, the tattoos come in and the hair

03:09and, like, the, the, the clothes, my fit, you know, like, it just, um, I could never

03:14have, like, stepped into the role in the way that I felt like I ended up doing without

03:17all those pieces, you know, the process.

03:20What should people who maybe don't know a lot about the intricacies of the different

03:26areas of Jersey and all of that, and what it's like, what should we know about it?

03:30For me, I always thought New Jersey is this allegorical, like, liminal space that it's,

03:37it's between two big cities, mostly my experience being so, my proximity to New York where, like,

03:45all your dreams can come true and this mythology of America where, like, or around the world

03:51where, like, it's the center of such culture that New Jersey becomes this, like, ugly cousin

03:56to it.

03:57And I, I, I think I resisted acknowledging that for a lot of my life.

04:05And as I got older and more specifically when I moved to LA, I just, like, longed to be back

04:11in New Jersey.

04:12And it's, I think it's, it's a place that I think has produced some of the greatest artists

04:18of our totem.

04:19I mean, Meryl Streep, Bruce Springsteen, Whitney Houston.

04:23Anthony Bidding.

04:24Wow.

04:25Yeah.

04:26I think it's something to be said about the culture that it's people, hardworking people,

04:32often blue collar people who, who, who look out for each other and, and who know, like,

04:38the value of, of community and know the value of being the last kid picked in gym class.

04:46And it's, it's, I think it's, it's like a feeling that, that unites kind of the state.

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