So Many Faults

Shailene Woodley recently spoke about her new projects while at CinemaCon this past week. Highlights from the interview are below.

On playing Hazel in The Fault In Our Stars: “People ask me in interviews all the time, ‘How did it feel to play a cancer patient?’ I didn’t play a cancer patient. I played a girl who happened to be leading this life and happened to have ‘a touch of cancer’. This book — and movie — they don’t victimize death, they empower life. That should be the tagline.”

On reprising her role at Tris in Insurgent: “The second book is so much darker for Tris, because she’s dealing with guilt and remorse and grief and loss. That will be fun to mess around with,”

On how she plans to approach Tris in Insurgent: “The first movie was entering new territory [for me] and figuring out, ‘How do I keep what I love as an actor, the truth and humanness and bringing raw emotions to a character, and still be this powerful heroine?’ So the first movie felt a little bit confusing for me. But going into the second one, I feel like I’ve gained the tools to be able to approach it in a different way.”

You can read more from Shailene’s interview here.