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Kaya Scodelario found making 'Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials' like having a "hangover every single day".
The 23-year-old actress - who's reprised the role of Teresa Agnes for the sequel to the 2014 sci-fi hit 'The Maze Runner' - has revealed the physical impact of spending hours filming scenes for the new movie at altitude in Mexico.
Speaking at a specially-arranged fan event in London's Leicester Square last night (07.09.15), Kaya shared: "It feels like you wake up with a hangover every single day.
"But it's beautiful. The landscape is really important to the movie, it's so vast."
Meanwhile, director Wes Ball revealed filming the latest movie in the franchise posed a markedly different challenge to the first.
He explained: "Filming for the first film was flat and humid and full of bugs. Now we're in this mile-high city with a big change in atmosphere.
"Shooting in these crazy environments of sand and rock and rusty metal was a completely different environment for us, but it adds to the movie in a really cool way."
'Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials' - which sees Dylan O'Brien, Thomas Brodie-Sangster and Ki Hong Lee all return to their roles from the first movie - opens later this month.

Emily Browning thinks "Hollywood movies are made for white men".
The 26-year-old actress - who stars alongside Tom Hardy in the new crime thriller 'Legend', about London gangsters Ronald and Reginald Kray - has claimed it's tough for her to avoid playing the part of the "hot babe" because Hollywood films are geared towards a specific group.
She shared: "I got told all the time when I was younger that I am wise beyond my years, before I realised they say that to everyone.
"I'm so determined not to play the hot babe that doesn't say anything, that can't have an opinion, but it's so difficult to resist all of that. Hollywood movies are made for white men, and that's something I think about and which bothers me all the time.
"The sad thing is it's so consistent, and so present. Sometimes you don't even notice it."
Meanwhile, Emily - who appears as Frances Shea, Reggie's wife in 'Legend' - admitted she's best at playing fragile characters because she finds them easy to relate to.
She told the Guardian newspaper: "I'm plagued by constant anxiety.
"It's this nagging, buzzing little thing in my head. I learned a word the other day - metacognition - which is to have awareness and understanding of your own thought process.
"Sometimes, I think about what I'm thinking about on this constant loop until I feel like my brain is eating itself. If I sit still for too long, that's what it feels like; falling into a black hole in my own mind. When I'm in front of the camera, that's the only time I really get a release. I'm just there."

Sia was "too embarrassed" to tell people she wanted to make a movie.
The 'Elastic Heart' hitmaker has started working on her directional debut called 'Sister' and has admitted she was afraid to tell people about her ambitions for film because she didn't want people thinking it was a "vanity project because I was a singer", but said after making the music video for her hit single 'Chandelier' she realised she was "pretty good at directing".
She explained: "I was too embarrassed to tell anyone I wanted to make a movie because I thought it would be seen as a vanity project, because I was a singer. And then last year after I made the Chandelier video, I realised that I was pretty good at directing, so I felt a little bit braver."
However, the 39-year-old star revealed she is "not a technical person" and couldn't be "bothered" to learn movie editing software, which she compared to the production involved in making music in a studio.
She told Billboard: "For me, the process was basically, I work out the movie. I'll act it out, I'll have the dialogue already in my head. It's really the formatting. ... I can't be bothered to learn Final Draft. I'm not a technical person. Like, when I sing, I just want to sing the melody and write the lyrics. I don't want to have to do production, which is very technical. I don't enjoy that. What I do enjoy is the creative process."

Chris Eccelston's character in 'Legend' is like a "bloodhound".
The 51-year-old actor stars in the new movie based on the book 'The Profession of Violence: The Rise and Fall of the Kray Twins' by John Pearson, and plays the policeman Leonard 'Nipper' Read, who finally takes down identical twin gangsters Ronald and Reginald Kray.
Chris said: "Me and Brian (Helgeland) did have a number of conversations about what type of dog Nipper Read might be, he decided on a bloodhound. That's because a bloodhound - according to Brian - will run until it dies, will chase its prey until its heart bursts."
But the actor didn't carry out research for the part.
He said: "I think there's a load of b******s spoke about research, I think it's make believe and I felt that what Brian had written sent me a very clear message about what he wanted."
He added: "I thought of Nipper Reid as puritanical and a man who did not want the 60s to happen, who did not want the Krays to have sex and fun, he didn't want The Rolling Stones to have fun, he was the man from the previous 10 or 20 years."
Meanwhile Tom Hardy portrays both twin brothers in the film and wasn't afraid to admit he had to do his homework for part.
Tom, 37, said: "There is a plethora of research that one can do on the Krays. We had various members of their world come out and talk.
"But there's lots of photos, but mainly people's mythic tales, people's legend, which are usually asinine, that circulate usually from people that didn't know them, you get a lot of them come out.
"Then there's patterns of stories that seem to re-appear a lot, I also had loads of diaries as well and some footage from a Panorama documentary. So I did loads of research really."

James Franco is to teach high-school film classes.
The 37-year-old star - whose previous film credits include 'This is The End' and 'The Interview' - has revealed his intention to pass on his knowledge of the industry to young students, offering them the chance to apply online for his class at Palo Alto High School.
Writing on his Instagram account, James said: "I Will teach a high school film class at Paly High the class I would have wanted when I was in high school ONLY IN PALO ALTO! (sic)"
This comes shortly after James revealed he'd penned a book about Lana Del Rey.
James co-authored a 100-page book with writer David Shields called 'Flip-Side: Real And Imaginary Conversations With Lana Del Rey', which will be released in March 2016. Previously, James revealed Lana didn't want to sit down for an interview with him, despite the fact the pair are close friends.
He said: "I wanted to interview Lana for a book and she said, 'Just write around me, it's better if it's not my own words. It's almost better if you don't get me exactly, but try.'"

Tom Hardy would like to be the next James Bond.
The 37-year-old star - who's currently promoting his new movie 'Legend', in which he plays London gangster twins Ronald and Reginald Kray - has been linked to the role of the iconic secret agent and admitted he'd be open to replacing Daniel Craig.
Asked whether he has been approached about the part, Tom told Sky News: "I think anybody would consider doing Bond, wouldn't they?"
Meanwhile, Tom confessed recently that it's a "bad idea" for one actor to play two roles in a movie, as he does in 'Legend'.
He plays the central roles in the new Brian Helgeland-directed crime thriller, but conceded appearing as two characters is far from ideal.
Tom shared: "It is one of them situations. You get an actor to play two characters, and immediately, it's pony. It's gonna be rubbish. Just: no. It's a bad idea."
The initial idea was for Tom to just play the part of Reggie - but he was ultimately more drawn to his twin brother.
He said: "I was like, 'Well, I feel Ronnie.
"So which actor am I gonna give up Ronnie to, if I play Reggie? Errrrrggh.... I can't have that. 'Cos that's all the fun there! And Reggie's so straight! But there was a moment when I could have come away just playing Reggie.
"We could have gone and found a superlative character actor to play Ronnie, and that would have been the best of everything."

A 'Trainspotting' sequel is moving closer to reality.
Award-winning director Danny Boyle - who helmed the 1996 original movie, which starred the likes of Ewan McGregor, Jonny Lee Miller and Robert Carlyle - has revealed the key members of the movie's cast are keen to reunite and the only obstacle to overcome relates to synchronizing their working schedules.
Boyle shared: "All the four main actors want to come back and do it."
The 58-year-old film-maker said that once the cast members find a sustained space in their diaries, they can press ahead with the much-anticipated sequel.
He told Deadline: "Now it is only a matter of getting all their schedules together which is complicated by two of them doing American TV series."
Earlier this year, Ewan McGregor revealed he would be keen to make a 'Trainspotting' sequel, but he hadn't seen a script for the movie.
He said: "I would be up for it. I've said that to Danny. Everybody has talked about it and speculated about it, but I don't if it's happening yet. I've not seen a script and I don't know if there is one. It's been a long, long time."

Danny Boyle learned "about film acting" by watching Michael Fassbender on the set of 'Steve Jobs'.
The acclaimed director, whose previous film credits include 'Trainspotting' and 'Slumdog Millionaire', has revealed he was wowed by Fassbender and Kate Winslet's performances in the eagerly-awaited biopic about the co-founder of Apple.
He shared: "I learned more about film acting. Especially these two [Michael Fassbender and Kate Winslet].
"A lot of it is their mental preparation. And it's not about slavishly learning lines, though in this case it was, because of the nature of it. But the execution of it is simple, in a way.
"They just step into it. It was extraordinary. There's no demarcation: 'Stop that fun, everybody! Stop everything! Action!' It was just, like, 'Go!'"
The British filmmaker also said it was "extraordinary" watching Fassbender's character evolve through the course of the movie.
He told Variety: "That was real film acting, and I loved kind of recording it, watching it happen. And something extraordinary happens to Fassbender in act three where he just is the guy.
"We set out not to make it slavish and gestural with the hair and everything, because that would be boring and we'd be concentrating on that. We just wanted to flow into it."

Chris Evans is desperate to continue as Captain America.
The 34-year-old actor - who stars as the iconic superhero in the Marvel movies - has revealed his is eager to continue working with the studio, having developed such a prosperous relationship.
Chris said: "Listen, if Marvel wants me they got me. I've never had such a relationship where you have such - I mean look at my resume, I'm used to being on set being like, 'Ah is this movie gonna be terrible?'
"Marvel just can't stop making great movies, they do it in their sleep. It's wonderful directors and producers and actors and scripts, and it's like a playground as an actor."
Despite this, Chris confessed he was initially reluctant to appear in the 2011 hit 'Captain America: The First Avenger'.
He told Collider: "It's so mind-boggling that I was so tentative in the beginning to jump onboard. What an a**hole I would be if I hadn't done this.
"I mean can you imagine? Kicking myself - I'd never forgive myself!"
Chris will appear in 'Captain America: Civil War' in 2016, alongside the likes of Robert Downey Jr. and Scarlett Johansson.