While some viewers may easily consider Gally (Will Poulter) as the main antagonist in "The Maze Runner" because of his immense dislike for Thomas (Dylan O'Brien), Poulter finds his character more of a conflicted character than an outright villain.
"My view on Gally is that he's not quite a villain," the 21-year-old actor told Screenrant. "He's more kind of this conflicted character, and that's something that me and (director) Wes [Ball] totally clicked on."
The "We're The Millers" star also said that he auditioned for the role of Gally because he respects some aspect of him.
"I think that my thing as an actor, choosing a part, is that I have to question whether I respect a character, and I don't feel like I can actually represent them unless I can respect some aspect of them," he explained. "So it doesn't matter, the most vile, horrendous character you can think of, I think unless they have some thread of rationale, I don't think I could personally play them. And I understood Gally, I understood where he was coming from, I empathize with him a bit."
"So we tried to draw that out of him a little bit, whereas in the book he's leaning more towards that villainous sort of character, he added.
"The Maze Runner" was filmed n Louisiana, so extreme heat was definitely a challenge for the whole cast and crew. "It's just crazy hot! Louisiana was madness," he told Creative Loafing Atlanta. "It was 108 [degrees] one day, just nuts."
"[We filmed from] May to July, so it was kind of a hot period," he explained. "That was actually all part of the challenge of shooting where we shot. It meant our jobs were easier, in a way, because we weren't faking it. It was for real."
Poulter also told The Wall Street Journal that he did a lot of running in preparation for playing Gally because it was so hot on set that everyone needed to be fit to endure it.
Poulter also shared that majority of the cast members were involved in a kind of relaxed boot camp before the first day of shoot, which helped them significantly in, "one, forming the characters and the relationships between them, and, two, creating this genuine sense of camaraderie, this kind of organic chemistry" among them all.
Meanwhile, following the successful box office opening of the film, 20th Century Fox has already given a release date for its sequel."Maze Runner: Scorch Trials," based on the second book in Dashner's novel trilogy, is slated for a Sept. 18, 2015 release, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
