Dyer said that, almost without fail, she would get pneumonia every year. She spent months out of school as a result of illness and asthma, which may explain where her creativity as an actress comes from. "I guess my immune system was just terrible. I became pretty good at entertaining myself and being in my own worlds, in my own head, playing games," she explained.
Dyer also acknowledged that, in her work as an actor, she sometimes thinks she's still a little kid playing pretend. "There is an element of that which you have to grow out of as you grow up," she said. "But what's great about acting is that I get to retain that in a professional setting. We are all kids playing pretend in a way. It's all just working to get back to that sense of play and creativity."
Her illness may have seemed debilitating, but it seems they also helped her access the creative side of her personality.
