Dylan O’Brien stars as Paris in Caddo Lake. The new movie, inspired after the filmmakers came across a photograph of the real Caddo Lake online, is now streaming on Max.

When an eight-year-old girl mysteriously vanishes, a series of past deaths and disappearances start to link together, forever altering a broken family’s history.

“I was really just struck by the character as soon as I opened the text and it’s sort of an intangible kind of draw that you feel or that I do, I guess, when in terms of [the] process of choosing or feeling connected to something. I loved how honest he was written, how grounded he felt, how grounded the story felt, and how emotional it was and tragic it was. And then, to sort of use this kind of rollercoaster ride of this heightened genre element to kind of round that story out, that’s sort of ultimately about loss and family and I just thought it was stunning, to be honest,” he expressed. “When you’re reading something that’s really great, written by people that you can trust, you can just feel it in multiple areas. The script was so cinematic and their presentation of it started with how they came to it, which by the way, was a picture of the lake. They crafted this whole thing after seeing the lake and they were struck by its beauty and its lore.”

I caught up with the actor to discuss his experience reading the script, what attracted him to the role, filming that cinematic escape sequence, and more.

Watch my interview below: