Shailene Woodley Covers The April Issue of Nylon Magazine

Shailene Woodley is on the cover of the April issue of Nylon magazine. The young actress is on the cover to promote her new film The Divergent Series: Insurgent. Highlights from the issue are below.

On her character Tris: “Tris was not born a superhero, but what I love about her is that you can watch her progression into a strong young woman. Whenever I go back to playing Tris, I feel like, yes, I’m going back to Tris, but I am also going back to Shai and who Shai was in 2012, and who she was in 2014. If I hadn’t changed, it would be easier…but the last two years have been very powerful for me. I’m starting to empower myself.”

On feminism: “The reasonwhy I don’t like to say that I am a feminist or I am not a feminist is because to me it’s still a label. I do not want to be defined by one thing. Why do we have to have that label to divide us? We should all be able to embrace one another regardless of our belief system and regardless of the labels that we have put upon ourselves.”

On the media: “I mean, if we spent as much energy focusing on the genocide that’s going on right now in parts of Africa as we spent on that one article, think about what we could accomplish. Change is not going to come from focusing on the small things that actors say.”

You can check out more from her interview here. Shailene’s issue hit stands on March 31 and Insurgent opens in theaters on March 20!