Shailene Woodley talks to "Vanity Fair"

Source: Vanity Fair

The Fault in Our Stars, which took Woodley to Amsterdam (where she had gone backpacking at 18) and to Pittsburgh, is a beautiful modern love story about two teenagers, Hazel and Gus, with a heartbreaking twist. Director Josh Boone says, “I told the studio it’s like Titanic, except the iceberg is cancer.” 

Woodley was so moved by Green’s novel—which has sold seven million copies worldwide and has been translated into 46 languages—that she reached out to the author directly. “She wrote me a long—very long—e-mail before the movie rights even sold,” Green says. “I remember being sort of overwhelmed by it, because it was so long and so positive, and she was so relentless in her certainty that she should play Hazel.”

Woodley also made an unusual impression on the director. “She was such a strange, interesting person,” Boone says of his first encounter with the actress. “She talks about health and is really passionate about what she believes; I wasn’t sure what to make of her.” At her audition the next morning, the director says, “she was the character Hazel. She wasn’t at all the girl I had met the night before, but over the course of getting to know her she is exactly who she is. I had forgotten how idealistic you can be in your 20s. I’m cynical, and she is really inspiring because she is so not.” 

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Shailene runs Women's Health July/August Cover

Shailene covers July/August's issue of Women's Health Magazine.

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Thanks to Shailene Woodley Brazil for the scans and screencaps! Video Source

Shai on Teen Vogue Behind the Scenes

Shailene talks Hazel on the set of her Teen Vogue cover shoot.

Shailene talks to Coup De Main magazine

Here are some of our favourite snippets from Shailene's recent interview with the Coup De Main magazine. You can read the full interview here!

CDM: Why do you think there’s been so few films produced since the days of John Hughes, that portray real representations of teenagers? [Shailene misheard John Hughes as John Green…]

SHAILENE: I don’t think that John Green hears the voice of teenagers and gives them a voice, I think he hears them and he really emphasises with them and is able to articulate in the manner of the inner workings of adolescence - and that is a true gift, because I think there are a lot of times where either they are played down or played up.

CDM: Hazel wholeheartedly lives for and appreciates the small moments in life. Is that something you relate to?

SHAILENE: Yes, it definitely is. I definitely live for the small moments and the big moments. I really love that about Hazel, and I love the fact that she doesn’t feel like she needs something in the world, like she doesn’t need to leave a mark or be someone or do something and I think that’s what’s really beautiful. She might be the least narcissistic person I have ever encountered.

CDM: I really admire Hazel’s courage. Even more so, when she doesn’t think she is being brave, but just thinks it’s the right thing to do. I feel like that’s something you and Hazel both have in common. What or where do you draw strength in your personal convictions from?

SHAILENE: I think I draw strength in my personal convictions strictly based on confidence. I think you have to love yourself and you have to have a strong sense of self-love in order to really show up for other people, because if you love yourself, you’re not questioning your own mind any more and you are really able to be present and available for others.

CDM: What do you hope for people to take away from watching 'The Fault In Our Stars'?

SHAILENE: I want them to take away the fact that nothing is guaranteed, and everything is so fleeting that we can’t take anything too seriously - you have to appreciate the moment, because you never know what is coming next as it is completely out of our control.

CDM: You’ve said that: "If we plan to save the planet, we have to start with ourselves." What do you think it’s going to take for people to understand this truth?

SHAILENE: I don’t know what it is going to take, but all I know is that every single day I am making a commitment to show up and be the best version of myself, and the kindest and most compassionate person I can be

CDM: If S.H.A.I.L.E.N.E. was an acronym, what would each letter stand for?

SHAILENE:

S - Sassy.

H - [What adjectives start with H? It’s such a weird one.] Healthy.

A - Animated.

I - Intelligent.

L - Loving.

E - Earth-hugging. <laughs>

N - Nature-girl.

E - Enthusiastic.

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Shailene covers Vanity Fair

Shailene covers the July issue of Vanity Fair. 

Credits to Miguel Reveriego, Vanity Fair

Here are the highlights:

Shai on George Clooney:

He has been an angel in my life for many reasons. He knew everyone’s name on set. He treated everyone as an equal and everyone got his warmth.

Shai on being herself:

As much as this industry is a platform for talking about big issues, there’s also so many fuckin’ issues. You could talk about Russia, or Argentina, or fracking, or G.M.O.’s. Maybe the only thing that I’m supposed to do is just show up and be me in every moment. Because I do feel like one of my gifts is to be open and lovely—simple things like smiling at strangers and having kind, small interactions. I think that is what’s going to ultimately shift things.

Shai on Miles Teller:

I look at Miles and, like, I’m sort of Julia Roberts in the same way she is to George. Their relationship I could see being our relationship in 20 years, and that really is special.

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Be sure to check out more of the article at the source and pick up the magazine in stores and online June 12th!

TFIOS Cast with Josh Horowitz

Ansel talks his TFIOS audition tape with MTV's Josh Horowitz.

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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.

Young Hollywood talks to TFIOS Cast

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ET talks to Shailene, Ansel and Josh

They talk about what lessons they all took from the movie.

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Premiere Interviews: Traileraddict

Trailer Addict chatted with the cast and crew of the movie at the premiere. Check out their interviews below.

NY Premiere - Shailene Woodley for The Fault in Our Stars on TrailerAddict.

NY Premiere - Ansel Elgort for The Fault in Our Stars on TrailerAddict.

NY Premiere - Nat Wolff for The Fault in Our Stars on TrailerAddict.

NY Premiere - Mike Birbiglia for The Fault in Our Stars on TrailerAddict.

NY Premiere - Sam Trammell for The Fault in Our Stars on TrailerAddict.

NY Premiere - Willem Dafoe for The Fault in Our Stars on TrailerAddict.

NY Premiere - John Green for The Fault in Our Stars on TrailerAddict.

NY Premiere - Josh Boone for The Fault in Our Stars on TrailerAddict.

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.

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?

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Shailene for V Magazine

V Magazine chats with Shailene about TFIOS, White Bird in a Blizzard, and more.

Here are the highlights:

On Sundance Film Festival:

I find Sundance to be nothing but pure magic every year,” she says. “I’ve been going for a while, whether I’m with a film or not. The weather, the people, the dance moves, the films, the cozy attire…it’s swoon-worthy.”

On TFIOS:

“It’s a beautiful cancer movie that isn’t about cancer,” she says. It’s about internal exploration, eternal connection, and universal, unconditional love.”

On indie films:

I love indie films, because there’s no slacking off,” she says. “The budget is so tight and the shooting schedule is so precise, there’s no room for error. Everyone is there for the love of the craft. [Indie films] are able to explore beyond the boundaries of what studios will allow.

Make sure to read the rest of the article at the source!

Shailene on the Queen Latifah Show

She talks TFIOS and Hair for Hazel! 

Shailene is showing everyone her natural and healthy beauty products.

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Shailene's InStyle Twitter takeover

Shailene answered questions submitted by followers of InStyle on TheFaultMovie's twitter. Check out what she had to say below!

  

 

 

 

Daily Beast talks with Shailene

Shailene chats with The Daily Beast about all things TFIOS, love, bucket lists, and more.

Shailene on her friendship with Ansel: 

We have such deep reverence and pride for one another. We’re completely different in almost every way, but are very intrigued by each other’s differences, so whenFault came around, there was a fault in Hazel and Augustus’s stars, but there wasn’t a fault in our stars because we had that deep respect for one another. In real life, I look at him with such admiration and such love, and when you apply that to the rules and regulations of what it is to be in love with somebody, the natural chemistry is able to exist.

Filming the AnneFrank House scenes:

For me, in the book, that was one of the most powerful scenes that he described and visually, interpreting it in my own mind, I saw it the way it was written, and then the way that they filmed it in the movie was exactly the same. Anne’s story and Hazel’s story are so synchronistic, in a way—the theme of how you don’t have to live a long life to have a powerful and meaningful one—and Anne Frank had her first kiss in that house, and Hazel did, too. And then having the ability to film there and the history of what those walls held was powerful in those scenes. Hazel’s thinking, “This might be the last time in my life I’m here, and if I have to die going up these stairs, I’ll die going up these stairs.” She’s also thinking, “If Anne Frank did it, I can do it.”

Numbered days and Bucket lists:

We only have moments. The future is not guaranteed and the past is gone, so worry is a product of the future and guilt is a product of the past, and those things have no place in our lives. So if I had two weeks or two months to live, I’d appreciate every moment. If I had to choose a location, I’d choose the beach because I don’t think there’s anywhere more powerful or beautiful in the world than the ocean, but I think I could be anywhere as long as I was aware of the fact that those were the moments that counted, and that laughter ensued in those moments. Laughter is kind of hard to come by with a lot of people, but I think life is so funny and so unfair, so why are we trying to be so serious about it? That makes no sense to me.

Be sure to check out the rest of this fantastic interview at the source!

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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.

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