"Scribe on Set" Featurette Part Four

Part four of the "Scribe on Set" series has arrived! This video explores Shailene's love of the story and her Hazel haircut including BTS footage and some new scenes from the movie. 

"Scribe on Set" Part One

"Scribe on Set" Part Two

"Scribe on Set" Part Three

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Buzzfeed Interview on the Amsterdam TFIOS set

Buzzfeed visits The Fault in Our Stars Amsterdam set. 

Taking in all of the sights, sounds, and warmth of the cast and crew, here are a few highlights:

John on the nature of celebrity:

“People are stopping you, and they’re saying nice things, but like, it makes you constantly consciously aware when you’re in public that you are not actually your private self, or that you can’t actually be your private self.” 

John on fleeting notability: 

“I know that this will never happen to me again. I’ll write other books and their lives will look more like my previous books and that’s okay with me. I remain interested in fandom and the relationship we have with the things that we love.”

John on his social media access during set:

"It’s allowed me to make the stuff I want to make for the Nerdfighters. It’s nice for them to feel like they’re part of it, because they do have special access to the movie, because they’re the reason we’re here. The readers of the book are the first people I want to make a good movie for.”

Ansel on his replaying his audition scene with Shai: 

“It was more emotional when we did it during the audition. At this point in the movie, we’ve done so many emotional scenes that Josh [Boone, the director] is like, trying to find a way to make some of the scenes less emotional. Because it’s almost too much. Shai and I are very explosive, so there are scenes in the movie where we are screaming and crying and losing our shit. You just don’t need another one of those.”

John on the filmmaking process: 

“When it came to deciding who would write the movie, the producers sent me Neustadter’s script for The Spectacular Now, and when it came to deciding who would direct it, I got to seeStuck in Love, Josh Boone’s first movie, and then when it came time for casting, I got to have a voice in that process as well.”

Shai on her introduction to TFIOS:

“I fell in love with the script and then read the book. I just felt like it was such an important story to tell — especially in modern-day cinema, to have a story like this brought to the screen just doesn’t happen.”

Ansel on Gus:

"...I was able to be theatrical because I’m a theater actor, and Gus is a theatrical guy. That was the beauty of Gus — he has so many layers to him. Shailene’s been like, ‘It’s gonna be a while before you get to play a character like this again.’”

Make sure you check out the rest of this amazing article here at the source!

Cast & Crew on Set Interviews with MediaDevour

The producer Wyck Godfrey, Willem Dafoe, Shailene and Sam Trammel talk about adapting the book, casting Shailene, seeing Ansel act, shooting with Willem Dafoe as the "scary, broken, intimidating, engrossing, charming" Van Houten and including John Green in the whole process of making the movie.

Nat Wolff told Josh that he should direct the movie to the book. He also talks about his character, about how he has always wanted to work with Shai because she is "unbelievably magnetic as an actress". He has now become close friend with Ansel and they live right next to each other, spend time in his clean appartment and share music.

Laura was struck the most by Hazel. She thinks the book captures likeminded spirits. She says Shai is a wonderful, honest actress. She also mentions how everyone on set was obsessed with John and how everyone on set wanted to honour the story for him.

Check out the videos below:

Thanks to MediaDevour

On Set Interviews

These are the soundbites of Ansel's, Shailene's, Josh's, John's, Sam's and Willem's set interviews.

Ansel Elgort

He says the book is about so much than about cancer (even though the cancer is an important part). He also talks about how Gus "only found out through Hazel that there is more to life than leaving a lasting imprint on the entire world and that maybe leaving an imprint on one person is enough."  Ansel talks about Hazel's concern about what will happen when she is gone, why Gus falls for Hazel and of course, Shailene and Willem Dafoe. 

Shailene

She talks about her character in the movie, how Hazel does all these normal things and her obsession with "An Imperial Affliction". She praises Ansel and calls him her "brother for life", how everything excites him. She also talks about Willem Dafoe and how not really knowing sort of helped during their intense scenes in Amsterdam. At last, she talks John's writing skills and how the movie might leave us feel.

 

Sam Trammell

He talks about how the screenplay and book affected him (he cried about 5 times), about how incredible Shailene is, about the humor in the book and movie and what to expect from the movie.



Josh Boone

Josh talks about the book and how it funny and sad and dealing with deeper, real things, about why Gus and Hazel work, about Shailene being one of the best actresses of her generation, about everyone wanting to honor the book, the feel on set, John's presence on set and much more!

PS: We're loving that sweater!


John Green

John talks about the process of writing TFIOS and Esther, Hazel and her fears, how Hazel and Gus connect, about the email Shailene sent him and her audition and his experience on the movie set.




Willem Dafoe

Willem (who plays Peter VanHouten) talks about his character, Josh Boone and his first movie Stuck in Love, the message of the movie and about TFIOS being a faithful adaption.

Thanks Gossipgyal / ShaileneArmy / MovieTimes

New/Old Pictures from Set

Today, we got a few old/new pictures from set via twitter.

Jean Brassard, who plays the waiter that serves Gus and Hazel, shared two pictures from set with us

with Shailene and Ansel

with director Josh Boone

Jake Braver, VFX supervisor, shared this image of Ansel and Shailene from rehearsal

Last week the music supervisor, Season Kent, shared an image of Josh Boone working on the film.

John's LA Times Interview on the TFIOS Set

While on the TFIOS set, John Green talked with the LA Times about all things The Fault in Our Stars.

Photo credit: The LA Times, James Bridges, 20th Century Fox

You can read the whole interview with the LA Times writer, Nicole Sperling, here at the source.

Here are some of our favorite parts of the piece:

There was originally a drastically different ending to the TFIOS book, involving "a road trip to Mexico and a battle with narco-terrorists."

TFIOS producer, Wyck Godfrey on John: 

"I think he has a real drive as not only an author but as a businessman and as a brand manager. He understands now that he's in a position to influence culture and he's going to use every avenue he can take to do that. It's not only smart as a businessman, but it's admirable in that the message he's putting out there is so positive."

John on Hazel and Esther: 

"Hazel and Esther are very different people, but I could never have written Hazel had I never been friends with Esther. My friendship with Esther taught me two things: how empathetic and outwardly focused teenagers can be, and that Esther's life was still a good life and she was glad to have lived it."

John's enthusiastic reaction to Michael H. Weber and Scott Neustadter's TFIOS script:

"When I saw their draft, I liked the ending better than I liked the ending of my book. That was a good feeling — and a little bit annoying."

John's thoughts about being on set: 

"I felt like being here was helpful, and they felt that way too. I realized on the second day that it was truly a once-in-a-lifetime thing."

Shailene on John's presence on set: 

"It definitely made a difference having him here. Everyone kept talking about him coming back when he was gone." 

Be sure to check out the rest of the interview here at The LA Times.

John Green and support group extras talk to NPR about TFIOS

Pittsburgh's NPR station, 90.5 FM, talked to John Green on the set of the The Fault in Our Stars about the production of the movie and portraying cancer patients honestly in the story. He said:

"What bothers me most about the way that we portray people with disabilities and chronic illnesses in television in films is that we ignore them, and then secondarily when they are portrayed, it's usually as a mere tragedy or as this bright-eyed perfect person who you know, is laid-low by this evil disease," he said. "And the true story is much more complicated than that."
Green said characters with cancer are often used in books and movies to teach healthy people important lessons, which is a dehumanizing way of imaging illness to a sick person.

"One of the things that excite me most about 'The Fault in Our Stars' movie is that in every scene in the movie Hazel is wearing a nasal canulla," Green said. "She can’t breathe without this supplemental oxygen. In every scene of the movie Augustus Waters is walking with a limp because he has a prosthetic leg. You don’t see those characters just as tragedies you see them as full people because the movie is devoted to them."

 They also talked to Alexander Murphy about his experience with cancer and being a support group extra in the movie. He met with Shailene Woodley before production even started.

"I actually got to meet with Shay before I even went on set," Murph said. "She actually talked to the directors and just wanted to meet some cancer patients. She just came to Oakmont and just hung out for a while. It was really cool."
Woodley had questions in preparing for her role, like "what it's like when you're on chemo, and what it's like when your recovering from chemo," Murph said. "It's like, it's difficult to explain. You’re in a whole different state. You feel sick, you feel weak, you have trouble thinking. It's really quite awful."

 Bethany Leo, another support group extra, talked about her experience of being cast before she had even read the book. She said she immediately identified with Augustus and Hazel.

"Whenever other people who have never been through cancer or have never had somebody associated cancer, they kind of read the book as just a love story, but like I read it as just so much more," said 23-year-old Bethany Leo.
"I had heard of The Fault in our Stars," she said. "I mean, being in the whole cancer circle, the kids cancer circle, people are always like, 'Oh you should read this book,' or, 'Oh you should look at this …'"
But Leo hadn’t read the book until she auditioned for a part in the movie.
"I’m really not much of a book reader, but this book I could read over and over again," she said. "I guess I understand it on a different level than some people do."
Even when describing her grueling experience with cancer, including misdiagnoses, chemotherapy, blood transfusions and her PET scan, Leo uses some of the same language character Augustus Waters used in the book when describing her PET scan. 
"I lit up like a Christmas tree, and it was in every single bone in my body," she said.

To listen to the entire NPR audio clip and read the transcript of the report, visit 90.5 FM WESA Pittsburgh's NPR News.

Set report: John Green talks about filming, fans & more!

Photo: Post-Gazette

The Pittshurgh Post Gazette wrote an article about fans on the set and talked to John. He apparently revealed he will be joining them in Amsterdam. Check out the article below!

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They came carrying hardcover books, freshly ripped pieces of notebook paper and the occasional pocket-size U.S. Constitution.

If a student has the copy of the historical document signed by someone famous, she or he gets bonus points. And, as confirmed by the knot of teens outside the Church, writer John Green more than qualifies, as do actors Shailene Woodley, Ansel Elgort and Nat Wolff.

Word that "The Fault in Our Stars" had landed at the church spread through Instagram, Twitter, texts and talk among middle and high schoolers walking along the road.

Students who skipped or postponed dinner and homework and waited into the darkness met the author, a publishing and vlogging rock star. One declared, "This is, like, the best day of my life."

Mr. Green, 36, signed everything politely pressed into his hands, begged off photos due to a quickie lunch break around 8 p.m. but later returned for selfies with his fans. 

Clad in jeans and Harry Potter Alliance T-shirt, he efficiently volunteered to hold each phone at arm's length, smiled for every picture and thanked everyone for their support before turning back into the church.

Yes, he has clearly done this before (earlier that afternoon, in fact) and will be doing it for a long time to come, based on the popularity of the novel and, now, anticipation for the 2014 movie.

"This is totally consuming and has been since it came out, which is the best problem I've ever had in my life," he told the Post-Gazette.

GIVEAWAY: Teen.com TFIOS set visit

The awesome Teen.com is giving away a very special trip to Pittsburgh to visit the set of TFIOS, between the dates of Sept. 29 to Oct. 1. (US RESIDENTS ONLY sad)

You’ll get to see all the action go down as the movie films in Pittsburgh, as well as meet with some of the cast, and (drum roll, please) TFiOS author John Green! While that whole experience is priceless, the winner and a guest will also receive:

• Round-trip airfare
• Hotel accommodations
• Transportation from airport to hotel and to set

Um, does it get any better than getting to leave your mark (see what we did there?) on the TFiOS set? So if this is something you’re into, find out how you can enter below, okay? Okay.

For more information on how to enter visit www.teen.com/tfios

Good luck nerdfighters!