Ansel's featured in July's issue of GQ, modeling the latest in menswear fashion!
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Showing posts with label Ansel Elgort. Show all posts
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Wednesday, June 25, 2014
Monday, June 23, 2014
Ansel featured by Visual Tales Magazine
Ansel covers Visual Tales Magazine.
Gorgeous shots by Ansel's sister, Sophie Elgort.
Be sure to check out the great article featured on Visual Tales Magazine site!
Friday, June 20, 2014
Ansel for Dazed & Confused Digital
Ansel sat down with Dazed & Confused Magazine to talk about having a leg double, Shailene's herbal tea and his childhood as the son of a world-famous photographer. Check out the article below
A long time ago – like, we're talking July last year – I called up the famous fashion photographer Arthur Elgort to chat about his trip to China with Linda Evangelista. Before hanging up, he said, "My youngest son is Ansel Elgort. He's going to come out in a movie soon that's going to make him big time." That movie was Carrie – the Kimberly Peirce remake of Stephen King's telekinetic thriller starring Chloë Grace Moretz.
Arthur Elgort was right. He did make it big time. "He believes in me," smiles Ansel when I tell him about our exchange. He's sat in the Soho Hotel, legs sprawled across the coffee table between us, munching on caramel corn. With only three films to date, the youngest Elgort is already girding his loins from the clamouring Tumblr 'shippers' (vehement fans who pair two people in a dream relationship). In The Fault in Our Stars, Ansel plays Augustus Waters: a cocksure hunk in remission who falls for Hazel Grace Lancaster (played by herbal hottie and homemade toothpaste guru Shailene Woodley). Together, they trek to Amsterdam to visit Lancaster's favourite author, Peter Van Houten. What really happens, though, is a deluge from the beginning of the second act when the floodgates burst. You'll sob in this movie, I swear. This acerbic account of young teenage love thriving despite being diagnosed with a terminal illness "says important things about sick people, shoots down the stereotypes," says Elgort. So for those of you that get this, bring tissues along when you go. Okay? Okay.
Did you ever get to use Shailene's herbal toothpaste?
Ansel Elgort: She offered it to me, the toothpaste, but I'm okay with Crest (laughs). She would give me stuff and I’d just eat it. I'm down for whatever, if you wanna give me something I'll drink your drink – the thing about it is if she's drinking it you know it's probably not bad for you.
And? How'd you feel?
Ansel Elgort: I wouldn’t feel bad, I never got sick or anything. The funny thing is that with Shailene if you ask her what things are good for, she'll like tell you for 95% of the things – the reason they're good for you is like, "This is good for digestion." It's like everything is good for digestion now.
How'd you guys first meet?
Ansel Elgort: It was during the audition for Divergent. There weren't sparks. We played brother and sister the first time we met. Shailene is a big presence, she dominates whatever scene she's in. If the actor she's with isn't good, she's going to dominate the shit out of them and it's going to be a mess. So it needs to be someone who's a strong enough actor. So you have to think about how can you beat her in that scene, because she's trying to beat you.
There're all these hilarious things on Tumblr which create entire narratives from out of context gifs. Are they creepy to you?
Ansel Elgort: They all like to 'ship' us (see Shansel). We're not a thing. I think that’s really helpful – that we weren't a thing. I'm really comfortable being open around her because I'm not like, 'Oh no, I have to watch my step. I don't want to date my co-star.' There's no pressure there. There's no sexual tension between us, it's all just friendship.
What was it like having a leg double?
Ansel Elgort: His name was Tanner Boatwright. Good kid. When you're crafting a character, it's good to have a lot of influences. I understood already that Gus (Waters) has a lot of confidence, but you always ask, "Why does he have this confidence, where does it come from?" And one of the reasons might be because Tanner is really, really confident. I think it's because he's overcome something. He still snowboards and climbs and hunts – that's how he lost his leg, in a hunting accident. Someone shot him in the leg, he was 16. You can go one or the other way – one way is to go around moping your whole life that you lost your leg, and the other way is being really strong about it, and almost overcompensating with confidence.
Where does Tanner's leg appear in the movie?
Ansel Elgort: The first time in the support group where I show my leg which is hidden. The other time is in the bed, when I'm on the phone, you see with me with my leg. And after the love scene they actually cut a hole in the bed and had me put my leg down to make it look not just like a knee. So it looks like it was cut off.
So all three of you are in the bed together?
Ansel Elgort: No. Tanner wasn't needed in that scene (laughs).
What films have you cried in?
Ansel Elgort: I cried for the first time during The Notebook. I cry a lot during films. I'm a big crybaby.
Do you think that this is the next generation's The Notebook?
Ansel Elgort: No, I think that they're just totally different movies. Nicholas Sparks and John Green are very different writers. I don't read Nicholas Sparks books. I'm not that big of a reader to be honest.
So what was the big clincher for this one? Why was this one the one you wanted to be a part of?
Ansel Elgort: Just who Augustus (Waters) was. That role is so special. And also the story in general. It's a beautiful story with important messages I think. Sick people in movies are so poorly portrayed, and even as an example – what Hollywood wanted to do for this film, when John first brought it to a studio, it wasn't Fox – they said, "Maybe we could bring in a different character who's not sick, and make it about her?" It's like, really? No! He said he couldn't believe that someone would suggest that. That's the problem with Hollywood and making movies about sick people, it's always about healthy people learning lessons from sick people. As if the sick people aren't important enough.
What was it like growing up with your dad (Arthur Elgort)? Did he ever bring people over?
Ansel Elgort: Yeah, I mean, I never knew. I grew up with Grace Coddington coming over to our house like all the time, but like she was just like the woman with the red hair.
She came over for dinner and stuff?
Ansel Elgort: Yeah! She was really nice. And the funny thing is people are always saying that she's so mean, but I've only ever known her as being very nice to us. If we saw her at a restaurant she might be doing her Grace thing, but then when she'd see us she'd be like, (endearing old lady voice) "Ohhh! Ansel, good to see you!" I was young enough at the time that seeing all these models I'd be like, "Oh, they're just tall girls." I wasn't really into girls yet. And then, now, I'm at that age it's like, "Oh, there's some pretty girls around in my dad's studio", but, you know, don't go over there…
Do you have any Adam Sandler stories from working together on Men, Women & Children?
Ansel Elgort: Yeah. He's really funny. I played basketball with him. More and more with him over summer.
Did you beat him?
Ansel Elgort: Here's the thing.
Oh no!
Ansel Elgort: So, you know what… no, I'm going to save that story until I'm promoting that movie. I gotta save it.
Oh, come on! You can't do that to me, it's my last question!
Tuesday, June 17, 2014
Ansel takes over Glamour Magazine UK
Ansel took over Glamour Magazine UK's Twitter account to answer fan questions. Check out the really awesome Q&A below:
We've just arrived for the #GlamourAnsel Twitter takeover - he's on his way!
— Glamour Magazine UK (@GlamourMagUK) June 17, 2014
Ansel: Hey guys, thanks for sending your questions, let's get started! #GlamourAnsel
— Glamour Magazine UK (@GlamourMagUK) June 17, 2014
Look who we have! Only Ansel selfies from #TFIOS #GlamourAnsel pic.twitter.com/YD4BqNciQU
— Glamour Magazine UK (@GlamourMagUK) June 17, 2014
Ansel talks TFIOS on BBC Breakfast
Ansel was on the BBC morning show promoting TFIOS. He talks about how this book is one of his favorites. He also mentions that people who watch this movie will come out the theater hopeful. He tells BBC Breakfast that he is sort of proud that TFIOS beat Tom Cruise's Edge of Tomorrow.
Check out the entire charming interview below or at BBC Breakfast.
Monday, June 16, 2014
UK Press Junket Interviews
TFIOS UK promo is heating up this week - here are all of the junket interviews.
More will be added as they are published online!
Ansel takes over MTV UK's Twitter
Ansel took over MTVUK's Twitter account today.
Here's the whole takeover:
We're here with @TFIOSUK's leading man @AnselElgort who is ready to answer all your questions! #MTVAskAnsel pic.twitter.com/qKjKe7VtWl
— MTV UK (@MTVUK) June 16, 2014
@patriciabojador Always loved music, EDM caught my ear and i tried making it! now im hooked as @ansolo_music #MTVAskAnsel -Ansel
— MTV UK (@MTVUK) June 16, 2014
@anselismyidol I love playing Call of Duty! hahaha #MTVAskAnsel -Ansel
— MTV UK (@MTVUK) June 16, 2014
#MTVAskAnsel @hi_pewds the The genie in Aladdin! -Ansel
— MTV UK (@MTVUK) June 16, 2014
#MTVAskAnsel @docflukes deff every language in the world! money cant buy that!
— MTV UK (@MTVUK) June 16, 2014
#MTVAskAnsel @siredbydamon "describe shailene in three words" Unique, Caring, Talented -Ansel
— MTV UK (@MTVUK) June 16, 2014
#MTVAskAnsel @taylorw_98 "Best life advice you've been given?" Luck is when preparation meets opportunity! -Ansel
— MTV UK (@MTVUK) June 16, 2014
#MTVAskAnsel @tori__harris "Augustus goes all out planning the picnic for Hazel. Have you ever planned a creative/romantic date?"Of course;)
— MTV UK (@MTVUK) June 16, 2014
alright guys! so much fun answering your questions! thanks for tweeting them in, i g2g now! see you l8ter -Ansel @anselelgort #MTVAskAnsel
— MTV UK (@MTVUK) June 16, 2014
Sunday, June 15, 2014
Ansel Elgort talks to The Guardian
Ansel was recently interviewed by the guardian, here are some of our highlights:
(remember to read the full article here)
On crying during TFIOS:
"Yeah, of course," he shoots. "Big time. The first time I cried was I think ..." He chews a cookie while he thinks. And then: "Well, I cry whenever I watch an emotional scene that I did, just because it brings me back to that moment. It's like I remember being there, I remember feeling what I felt. It's really weird, right?"
"Yeah, of course," he shoots. "Big time. The first time I cried was I think ..." He chews a cookie while he thinks. And then: "Well, I cry whenever I watch an emotional scene that I did, just because it brings me back to that moment. It's like I remember being there, I remember feeling what I felt. It's really weird, right?"
On feeling lucky to be healthy after leaving a TFIOS screening:
"There are so many things to be lucky for," he agrees. "Lucky to be healthy, lucky to be, like, beautiful. Lucky to be living in America. It's like: what the fuck. It's crazy. I feel like I have more luck than 99.999% of people in the whole world." A pause. "I'm a lucky fuck."
"There are so many things to be lucky for," he agrees. "Lucky to be healthy, lucky to be, like, beautiful. Lucky to be living in America. It's like: what the fuck. It's crazy. I feel like I have more luck than 99.999% of people in the whole world." A pause. "I'm a lucky fuck."
On playing alongside Shailene:
"Shailene," he says, "is a very different person to most people. She's very unique. She has, some would say, odd ways of living." Like what? "Like she eats only certain types of food, she cooks a certain way. But the nice thing was that she was able to speak about life spiritually and I think at that point in my life – I was 19 – I'd never thought about any of that kind of stuff. So I was like: wow that's interesting. I'd never talked to anybody like that but I guess Shailene talks to her friends like that all the time."
"Shailene and I share a certain love," he says, "but it's a friendship love." This, he thinks, is also what their characters in this new film enjoy. "I think it's more than a love story, it's like the opposite of Romeo and Juliet – it's not lust; it's real love. And, y'know, they have sex just because they're in Amsterdam and are probably never going to have sex otherwise – so let's do it, I guess. But really, they're there just because they love each other. That's why it's refreshing because it's not, like, cheesy luurve."
On his online reach:
"It's important power, because there are some celebrities who have millions and millions of people following them and they don't lead by example. I think one of the best people on Twitter is John Green [author of The Fault in Our Stars]. He leads by example and he encourages millions of people to do good things. And there are people who don't, and it's a waste, y'know? I look to John as a role model and whenever I'm unsure of something I'm like: 'Would John tweet this?'
On being a role model:
"I'm happy to be a role model because I think I can do it over other people. I think my parents raised me well. And I'm pretty straight edge. All my friends make fun of me for being straight edge. Like we go out and I'm not really drinking. But they understand why – I'm doing really well, I'm really focused always on the prize. I want to keep creating and making important things and that's what I want Ansel Elgort to be about."
On being ready for the kind of attention Robert Pattinson gets:
"I don't compare myself to anyone, but yeah, in certain ways it's really nice because a lot of people like Robert Pattinson. I think I'm a lot more ready than a lot of people. I'm willing to hopefully encourage people to do good things." Fame at this pitch holds no fears for a man apparently allergic to anxious introspection. Or, perhaps, just a 20-year-old self-aware enough to know he's on top of the world. And making the movie did change his perspective, he says. Sometimes, luck runs out. "I think one of the biggest things is that … it just happens." "It", of course, being cancer. He quotes the film – "The world is not a wish-granting factory" – then sits back. "That's how it is. It could happen to anyone, y'know? As young people, we think we're invincible."
"I don't compare myself to anyone, but yeah, in certain ways it's really nice because a lot of people like Robert Pattinson. I think I'm a lot more ready than a lot of people. I'm willing to hopefully encourage people to do good things." Fame at this pitch holds no fears for a man apparently allergic to anxious introspection. Or, perhaps, just a 20-year-old self-aware enough to know he's on top of the world. And making the movie did change his perspective, he says. Sometimes, luck runs out. "I think one of the biggest things is that … it just happens." "It", of course, being cancer. He quotes the film – "The world is not a wish-granting factory" – then sits back. "That's how it is. It could happen to anyone, y'know? As young people, we think we're invincible."
Saturday, June 14, 2014
Wall Street Journal talks with Ansel and John
Wall Street Journal's Tanya Rivero talks with Ansel and John in an in-depth interview talking about adaptation hesitation, on Esther, Ansel on creating Augustus, and more.
Be sure to check out the accompanying article at the source!
Thursday, June 12, 2014
Tuesday, June 10, 2014
TFIOS Cast with Josh Horowitz
Ansel talks his TFIOS audition tape with MTV's Josh Horowitz.
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Monday, June 9, 2014
Ansel and Shai on Ryan Seacrest
Ansel was on Ryan Seacrest and talked about him and Shailene sneaking into the theatre to watch TFIOS with fans. He said,
“It was really amazing to go see it with an audience. As you said, everyone was sobbing and I’ve never experienced something like this before. At first, it’s weird because you think it’s some sort of laughing, and you’re like, ‘What’s wrong with these people?’ No, everyone is crying.”
He also talks a little about his and Shailene's relationship and how he "only gets hired when he's with Shailene."
Love the ending of that interview ;)
Shai chats with Ryan Seacrest about the balance between grieving and living life, the success of the book and its relate-ability, and Ansel's audition.
Shai chats with Ryan Seacrest about the balance between grieving and living life, the success of the book and its relate-ability, and Ansel's audition.
Ansel in Interview Magazine
Ansel talked to Interview Magazine about dancing, acting and singing/producing music and his wishes and aspirations for the future.
Ansel Elgort is what is traditionally called a triple-threat-he acts, dances, and sings. The 20-year-old New York native and theater-camp vet who started performing in ballet class at age 9 and crafts bass-thumping electronic dance tracks under the nom de musique Ansolo made his screen debut as pretty-boy high school jock Tommy Ross in last year's remake ofCarrie. He recently appeared in this spring's young-adult dystopian juggernaut Divergent, and in June gets leading-man status as Augustus Waters, one half of a pair of star-crossed, terminally ill teenage lovers in The Fault in Our Stars alongside fellow Divergent alum Shailene Woodley. His fourth movie, Jason Reitman's dramedy about modern love, Men, Women & Children, due out later this year, has him sharing the screen with Adam Sandler and Jennifer Garner. It's been a packed two years for Elgort, but he doesn't seem to be letting up soon.
COLLEEN KELSEY: You went to LaGuardia High School, the Fame school. Did you always want to act?
ANSEL ELGORT: When I was nine, I started doing ballet. That's when I knew that I was down to keep doing it. Eventually I came into acting and LaGuardia and straight play-acting turned into movies. I always did workshops. I would be at theater camp, doing shows, or after-school programs. Then I was doing shows in school. It was nonstop. I was never not in a show from ages 11 until 18. It was a great creative atmosphere but also a professional kind of atmosphere. When I finally went into the professional world, I felt ready. I was prepared for work.
KELSEY: What was the movie or play that made you want to be an actor?
ELGORT: Les Miz and Oklahoma! I was a big musical guy. Then I got into movies, watching old films my dad had, the old Elia Kazan movies, like On the Waterfront [1954]. It was those old movies, actually, that really got me started. Marlon Brando, Paul Newman—straight-up legends.
KELSEY: What was your first role?
ELGORT: The first show I did was The Nutcracker ballet. I was one of the kids who comes out in the beginning. In fifth grade, I did Oklahoma!, but I didn't get a leading role. I knew the whole play and could sing it already, but they were like, "The sixth-grader has to get the lead." I was really discouraged. Then I went to the Professional Performing Arts School.
KELSEY: Have you had any auditioning experiences that bring you back to that first rejection in Oklahoma!?
ELGORT: I guess so. I did seven auditions for Carrie. I just kept coming back and doing the same thing over and over again. I guess they just wanted to see if I was consistent. I was a total nobody. I wouldn't have hired me to be the lead in that movie either.
KELSEY: Really?
ELGORT: Not at first. Not off a couple auditions. I would want to see proof that I could do it.
KELSEY: You were in Carrie, a horror movie; Divergent, a sci-fi-action movie; and now you have The Fault in Our Stars, a fairly unusual love story. Have you diversified your acting skill set fairly quickly in your career?
ELGORT: It's not like I'm pulling a Christian Bale and getting really fuckin' skinny. I'm not playing a woman. Doing those kinds of things—that's diversity. I want to do that. I think that I could pull it off. I think that a theater background really helps with that.
KELSEY: Do you have actor role models?
ELGORT: Paul Newman. He could play a lot of different roles, even people who were villains, and no matter what, you love him. He was always such a relatable character—the smile, the blue eyes. Brando was just really real. James Dean was always a tortured soul. It's cool to look at the old guys. But when I'm looking at someone's career, I'm not trying to be, "Oh, whose do I want?" I don't really want anyone else's. I don't just act, and that's really important to me. I don't want to just be an actor forever. Right now I'm really into music. I want to score movies. I could be an actor first, but I don't only want to be an actor.
KELSEY: Who do you want to work with the most?
ELGORT: I think it would be ridiculous to work with Tom Hardy. I hear some crazy things about him, and he's also really good. I like the movie Warrior [2011] a lot and Gavin O'Connor, who directed it.
KELSEY: Have you ever been starstruck?
ELGORT: Less and less recently. It's so sad, you get less starstruck when you start realizing that it's not a big deal. I got starstruck not by someone who is famous, but by someone who's famous in the miniature painting community. When I was a kid, I used to paint miniatures. There were famous people in the miniature community from forums online. I went to some big event and I saw them in real life and I was so starstruck. So silly, right?
KELSEY: With The Fault in Our Stars, the book has such a cult following. Have you been aware of what people's expectations are for the movie?
ELGORT: Definitely. Especially since I'm really big on social media stuff. I get it firsthand, which I think is important. It's important to be there.
KELSEY: How close are you with your followers?
ELGORT: I've been Skyping with them, one on one, with people who have been winning a competition for my new EDM [electronic dance music] track "Unite." I have this raffle you can enter to promote the song. It's cool. They actually ask me a lot of questions about music. They really do care. And that's why social media is so important, because these kids, a lot of them had never known what electronic music was.
KELSEY: What's the event in history you wished you witnessed?
ELGORT: The '50s; the whole greaser time in Hollywood. I would have liked to have been there when they were like, [in an old-timey accent] "Oh, we're making pictures now that have sound and color!"
KELSEY: What actor, living or dead, would you want to play you in the movie of your life?
ELGORT: Paul Newman. I trust him.
Saturday, June 7, 2014
Premiere Interviews: Traileraddict
Trailer Addict chatted with the cast and crew of the movie at the premiere. Check out their interviews below.
National Board of Review Q&A With Cast
The National Board of Review recently hosted an exclusive TFIOS screening and held a Q&A with Wyck, Ansel, Shailene, Laura and Josh afterwards.
This movie is based on a beloved book by John Green. Has he seen the film and how does he feel about it?
Godfrey: He saw it very early on and was involved in the production, and loved it, thank goodness. But I think he knew all along from the screenplay to the casting that we were putting together a team that loved the book as deeply as its fans and that we were going to pay honor to it in whatever way we could.
The book is dedicated to a 16 year-old girl that died of cancer. Its authenticity is very important for the film. Can you talk about working with the cancer support groups and patients for the movie?
Boone: They validated the book for me in a lot of ways because they were so similar to Hazel and Gus. They were just funny, cynical, and irreverent, these wonderful dazzling human beings. It just made me believe more and more that this story had touched something that was real. They were a huge part of the process and gave so much to these actors. We were so happy to have them and tried to do some justice to what it’s like to go through something like this.
Some of the patients are in the movie?
Boone: Yes, everyone in the support group that Mike Birbiglia runs.
Woodley: One of the biggest things that you learn, or recognize, is that cancer doesn’t define a person. So it didn’t feel like we were working with a bunch of cancer patients, it felt like we were working with a bunch of teenagers that happened to be going through a really difficult time in their lives. Apart from that, everyone was the same, and that was really special and something that was very profound for me. What happens to us in life doesn’t define who we are and what our hearts feel. And that was a really beautiful thing to take away.
Elgort: Like Josh said, it does validate the way Hazel and Gus are in the story. It’s nice to see people in real life actually are like that because people with cancer aren’t just cancer; they’re just people that happen to have cancer. We wanted to bring those people to life.
Boone: All of those kids we met had their own things going on and their own love stories. Their illnesses didn’t seem to define them at all.
Dern: I’d just like to add that with the privilege – and perhaps the horror – of someone who got to play a mother in this circumstance, I quickly learned about the phenomenon around John Green, rightfully, since it’s such a brilliant and beautiful book. I also learned, as a parent who considers what I should shelter my child from, that we live in an age where 1 out of every 3 people have cancer. Instead of wondering if my 12 year-old should see this movie, I realized that this is a generation of kids who know this story intimately though their own families and their own friends. It’s really beautiful to be a part of a film that is reflecting a story they really need to talk about.
When I read the book I thought, what actress is going to pull off this role along with having tubes in her nose for two hours.
Woodley: First off, so many props to you guys [Godfrey, Boone] and to Fox for having the courage to show someone with tubes in her nose for the entire film, because that’s not an easy move to make in movies right now. I did meet with some people who had a hard time breathing with their lungs, and had to use oxygen, and we had a discussion of how far we were going to take it in the movie. If we were actually going to implement the breathing people go through in real life to cinema, it wouldn’t translate and the film would probably be four hours long. So we chose certain scenes to sort of play that up more. For me, emotionally, the book is so truthful, and the script was the most perfect adaptation of any book I’d ever read, I felt like our only job was to come to work and fully succumb to the truth of what these characters were going through. People ask what it’s like to play a cancer patient, and I tell them I wasn’t playing a cancer patient, I was playing a girl falling in love for the first time who happened to have cancer.
Ms. Dern, how did you approach your character and bring it to another level of emotion?
All roads seem to lead back to John Green and the gift his book gave us all. The thing that excited me is that I’ve never really played a parent or even a grown-up for that matter! So it was a perfect fit in that John wrote these two people that were kind of progressive hippies from the Peace Corps who fell in love and found themselves having a kid, and in sort of a modern progressive form of parenting, raised her like she was a buddy. I think from that energy of deep respect came Hazel’s very unique and honored and respected voice. Then, with her diagnosis, these people had to become real grown-ups and learn how to parent in a different way. They get to grow up with Hazel, and with her diagnosis. I was very moved by that.
Mr. Godfrey, can you talk about what first drew you into this book?
I read it the night the book came out. An executive at my company had read it as well, and we both called each other the next morning and were like, this is tremendous, it’s a transcendent love story. I bawled my eyes out through half of the book – sometimes as a parent, sometimes as a born-again teenager. It was transcendent and made me want to live a better life just by virtue of how they were facing their situation. So I thought, I have to believe that other people are going to respond the same way. It blew me away.
How did you navigate the different tones in the film?
Boone: We had a really wonderful script that was really funny with funny moments and we hired actors that understood the tone and could speak John’s language and translate it properly. A lot of it is just finding actors that have chemistry and letting it develop organically once they start working together.
How did you use supporting characters to bring humor into the movie?
Boone: Nat Wolff was in my first film, and he’s one of the funniest people I think any of us know. He keeps us all laughing and he has really wonderful improv skills that help with a role like this where he can add little touches. He brought so much humanity to it, so it was real but also funny. Mike Birbiglia was the same way. We looked at a lot of people to play the support group counselor – that was a hard role to cast. We’re very lucky [Screenwriter] Michael Weber recommended him to us.
Godfrey: We could make an entire movie out of his outtakes. It’s so funny cause we’re doing this scene and you had wanted everyone to be sort of quiet watching him, and there were real cancer patients in the scene, and they would just start laughing in the middle of it, so Mike was like, Oh okay I’ll go again!
Boone: He was fantastic. So much of it is casting. Mike Birbiglia brought so much to that role, just the way he phrases things and his idiosyncrasies. Those are the things you look for in people, little things you like about them, and hopefully you can exploit them without them knowing!
The whole thing can also be read at the source.
Friday, June 6, 2014
VH1 - Which movies make the cast cry?
VH1 asked Shailene, Ansel, Nat, John, Laura and Sam the question of all questions: Which movies did they cry over?
Thursday, June 5, 2014
Ansel on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon
Ansel was on Jimmy Fallon and talked NYC, taking pictures of posters in the subway, TFIOS, and his tap dancing. Check out the interview below.
Monday, June 2, 2014
Apple Store Soho Event
Shailene, Ansel, Nat, Laura, Sam, and Josh and John promoted TFIOS at a Q&A at the Apple Store in Soho yesterday.
Video Via PlanetShailene
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