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Shailene Woodley recently spoke with BlackBook Magazine about her new film, The Descendants, life choices, and so much more. Highlights from the interview can be found below.

On working at American Apparel when she got the gig: “Yeah, I was working at American Apparel down on Orchard and Houston, and I got a call early January from my manager, and he said, Shai you need to fly to L.A. tomorrow, Alexander wants to have coffee with you. And I was like, I can’t do that, it’s my second day at work at American Apparel, I have a commitment, I can’t let them down. And he was like, Shai you need to. And I was like, Can we Skype or something? But he was like, Shailene, I never tell you to do anything, and I really believe you need to do this. So I flew to L.A.

On being vegetarian: I’m not a vegetarian. but I only eat humanely raised meats. I would rather actually kill my meat than buy it in plastic wrap. I don’t buy meat from Whole Foods, I order it direct from a farm. I mean, I’m like extremist.

On whether or not her director, Alexander Payne, gave her pointers while filming: “Absolutely. The best direction he ever gave me was he came up to me and said, You’re not being Shai, and he walked away. I was like, Oh, duh, thank you. Thanks for bringing me back down to earth.”

To read Shailene’s full interview click here.