Max Irons Talks About Learning to Drive on the Set of The Host

Since most American teenagers learn to drive at around 16, it might seem odd that Max Irons didn’t learn until his mid-20’s

I wasn’t scared of the fight scenes but I was terrified of crashing a car and hurting Saoirse (Ronan, his co-star). I’d never actually driven before. I was put in a World War II jeep and told to drive across this range in the desert as fast as I could. I did it, which was pretty bad, and then when I got back, they put Saoirse in the car next to me and said: ‘Now do it again.’ I could see her dad eyeballing me in my peripheral vision. All I could think about was what the hell would happen if I crashed and something happened to her.

Check out the rest of Max’s interview in The Daily Mail.