I haven’t really had to deal with any of the criticism because I wasn’t involved in the first movie. I know that in this one, there was a lot of thought given to the character. While these are CGI characters we do need to make them as approachable as possible.

There’s an enduring myth surrounding kids who appear in horror films. How did Tobe Hooper shield Heather O’Rourke from the horrors everywhere during the production of Poltergeist, William Friedkin with Linda Blair in The Exorcist or Stanley Kubrick with Danny Lloyd in The Shining?

By any measure a clean slate, Dylan O’Brien’s character Thomas in the adaptation of the YA hit novel The Maze Runner wakes up in a forested glade with no idea who he is or how he got there. It might be reminiscent of O’Brien’s career – after bursting onto the scene thanks to his role in TV’s 2011 Teen Wolf reboot, the 23 year old must have been wondering how he reached such heights.