Shailene Woodley covers the July issue of Women’s Health to promote The Fault in Our Stars to the few members of the YA audience who’ve not already watched the movie. Yes. Shailene is going to be around for a long time. She’s able to play the publicity game and give good sound bytes during interviews. The world’s most fabulous water nymph also beat Tom Cruise at the box office a few weekends ago.
This magazine seems perfectly geared towards Shailene’s ideals, much like her Natural Health cover last month. It’s alarming how much this interview reflects common ground between myself and the tree goddess. We both dread shopping and adore Dermot Mulroney. Does this mean I’m a few moments away from foraging for leeks in the forest?
She’s not a shopper: “I would be shopping in my best friend’s closets cause that’s where all the gold is. Ya know? They have already gone through the racks, and they have decided what they want, and so I know I like their style so I’ll just take it from them. Yeah, I’m not a shopper. I’m the laziest shopper.”
What actor does she want to kiss? “I don’t know. I don’t really know many actors; I know more characters in movies who you’re just like, ‘Ah, you’re so swoon-worthy.’ Dermot Mulroney character in the movie My Best Friend’s Wedding. I always remember being like, ‘Wow,’ I would love to be Julia Roberts right now.”
Her hair: “I have really, really thick hair and it was extremely long. And then I thought about it and I was like, wow, this is so many years, and so many layers and so many lessons are in this hair and I am starting this new phase in my life as a woman in a way, and cutting my hair was a fun cleansing of like what could mean something new.”
Her favorite foods: “Sweet potatoes are unreal. I eat chocolate every day. Raw chocolate, hands down, the best gift to human beings. My favorite dish to cook…any sort of pot roast. In a ceramic enamel pot. You just can’t go wrong with the flavors. That’s always my go-to. But what I do most often is generally an egg dish with whatever vegetables are in season because it takes 10 minutes, and you have the tastiest meal ever. You got your protein, you got your veggies, you got a little carbs in there.”
Her proudest physical feature: “I guess I’m proud that I’m very fit. That’s not a physical feature but I’m very proud that if somebody was like, ‘Alright, we’re walking to Central Park right now. I’d be like, ‘let’s run to Central Park right now.’ I’m really proud of my ability to be fit or stay fit and honor my body in that way. In a fight or flight situation, I consider myself a fighter, and so regardless of whether I would win or survive or anything, I want to know that I can give it my all. When I feel fit and when I feel strong, I feel like I can empower and fight back.”
Her dream role: “I would love to play Stevie Nicks. She’s just such a fascinating woman who’s lived such a life and is still living such a life. Her music was really profound for me in my life. Yeah I think it’d be an adventure to play Stevie Nicks. I love that there is no other Stevie Nicks in this world. She is so fully herself, and undividedly herself. That in itself is such a powerful lesson to take in and be like, ‘wow.’ No one is going to be the next Stevie Nicks and Stevie Nicks was next the next anyone. And I think that’s such beautiful advice for all of us. You do you, we do we. She does she in such a beautiful way. I think it’d be great to sing in a film. I love to sing. I guess another dream movie would be a movie like Once. It’s so romantic and sensual and musical but does.”
[From Women’s Health]
I honestly don’t know what Shailene is talking about with her “fight or flight” discussion. Many of you agreed that she’s talking gibberish in her latest interviews, but does she really think that running to Central Park means she can outlive an apocalyptic threat? Maybe I’ve been reading too much $1.99 value Amazon Kindle lit, but there’s so much more to survival than simply sprinting and carving weapons from nature. Some of us run most days and can barely *cough* catch a runaway toddler dog. Averting zombies is out of the question without serious weaponry.
There’s a new trailer and footage on the loose for another Shailene movie. This is her enthusiastically naked, coming-of-age movie, White Bird In a Blizzard, which received good buzz at Sundance. Shailene plays the teenage daughter of Eva Green and Chris Meloni. The mom character takes flight one day, and Shailene makes out with Shiloh Fernandez to Depeche Mode. Here is the film’s official trailer, but the much spicier make-out clip is here. If Shiloh Fernandez came dancing up to me in a club like that, OMG.
Photos courtesy of Women’s Health & WENN
Regarding the zombie apocalypse (because that’s the only part of this woman’s post that’s worth talking about): the first thing to go is ALWAYS NYC (followed by Big Ben), so perhaps running into the heart of midtown might not be the most intelligent thing to do. But then we’re talking about Shailene Woodley. Survival of the fittest isn’t always about the most physically superior.
Not if you’re “honouring your body” anyway.
I honour my body by letting it eat expensive chocolate.
Now that’s what I call respect.
And I’m absolutely serious! Current favourite – http://www.montezumas.co.uk/chocolate-gifts/dark-chilli-bar.html.
Dang, that looks good. Spiced-up chocolate is a thing of beauty.
I will now have nightmares!! Why is it ALWAYS nyc *cries*
Ugh why do I keep clicking on stories about her my eyes are rolled sooo far into the back of my skull I can see yesterday
Lmfao. Best comment.
THIS.
Would this person please go away? Every word out of her mouth makes me cringe.
Shes been dialing down a bit have to admit this wasn’t as pretentious as some of her earlier interviews
I see the scene now..The Woodchuck is in a tight situation whilst in Central Park foraging for truffles , and is suddenly threatened by a predator, perhaps a Snickers bar-GASP-mainstream candy!! It immediately responds to the awful threat by ripping off it’s pants, throwing itself flat on its back, and flashing The Sun Vadge. Threat dismantled. Snickers bar slinks off, needing therapy. Cause it’s nuts. Go away, Shailene.
She does enjoy rhapsodizing about her own belly button gazing, but I like her. I think her heart’s in the right place.
Thank you. I thoroughly concur.
That’s a terrible wig. I hope all the Fault in Our Stars actors have their next projects lined up. It’s been dropping steadily since it’s been released. I think Shailene picks good projects and knows how to network. Everyone she works with praises her endlessly. She’s a far better actress than Emma Watson or Kristen Stewart (who are in her age range). They seemed to be going up for similar roles. Jennifer Lawrence seems hellbent on playing way older than she actually is. (Jenn, girl, I love you. But LOSE DOR number. He doesn’t bring you favors).
Also I heard Shailene is dating Shiloh. Or at least had a fling with him. I hope that’s true. They have chemistry.
I like her. I like her unpretentious nature.
Sarcasm ??? haven’t had my coffee yet not sure LOL
I find her quite pretentious. I guess everybody’s different.
The knowledge of mushrooms and other things she goes out and gathers in the wilderness would probably serve her better in event of an apocalypse. She can fight zombies then calm the other survivors with some tea made of roots and grass.
Plus, she’s already used to going without deodorant and eating clay, so she’s way ahead of the game.
Can you imagine being her friend? She’d be sleeping on your sofa, smelling up your apartment with b.o., eating your clay and stealing the clothes out of your closet while constantly spouting inane, obnoxious remarks about her own loveliness through her oil pulled teeth. Ugh. No thanks.
Thank you for that image, I now I have visions of her building a tree house in the Oak in my back garden and running around “skyclad” while making Gibbon noises and uttering a stream of gibberish and it’s burned on the back of my eyeballs! 🙂
If she was a guest at my house I’d put her out on my roof deck in a sleeping bag or maybe just a burlap sack because that’s more “natural”.
I’m ashamed to admit that I agree with what she said about feeling fit–being physically strong is empowering. I actually do find that being fit affects your daily life in ways you don’t understand until you find yourself busting into a full-on sprint to catch a bus or having to lift a 50 lb grill onto the roof deck or even just carrying 5 bags of heavy groceries up 3 flights (because there’s no f*cking way I’m making more than one trip).
I hope I don’t sound sanctimonious, but I do think that being a single woman living alone, feeling strong and fit helps me to feel more self-sufficient and capable.
Um,
I don’t know why but your comment is making me FEEL things right now…I’m glad that no one can see me because I am getting teary-eyed. What you’ve described here, and what Shailene has said is really inspiring, and I tip my hat to you.
Yes, your point is excellent. I liked that part of what she said, too. She’s human and complicated, and I never meant she was all bad. I just don’t want her on my couch.
It’s very true, I have issues with bad knees and general injuries but I still work out and try my best to be stronger and it really helps with those fleeting moments of ‘why does my body hate me?’. Nobody will ever f*ck with my biceps lol.
http://www.vulture.com/2014/05/shailene-woodley-brie-larson-women-in-hollywood.html
@Goodnames – I think this article would describe it pretty well.
..eating your clay LOL
If I followed the, ahem, logic; she’s fit and can run, I would think survival probability would be greatly enhanced by flight aka running.
Escape is always your best option for sure, but good luck running if a guy comes up behind you with a gun. Still, statistics clearly show that your odds of survival are far greater if you do fight back.
“I think it’d be great to sing in a film. I love to sing.”
OH F*CK NO NOT ANOTHER ONE THAT THINKS SHE CAN SING.
Yeah. I only said that since she mentioned running. Being fit to run doesn’t automatically give you the strength to fight like Mohammad Ali.
As to the singing, at least she didn’t mention Tom Waits. I don’t know if I could take another actress butchering the tone of the songs.
Stupid question- what is raw chocolate? Like cocoa beans? Or just regular ass chocolate but in her own language?
Yeah, I don’t know if she means unsweetened, or uncooked beans?
You can get cocoa nibs that are unsweetened chocolate and taste terrible, I think she means those.
I like them.
@ Kiddo – there’s always one 🙂
Oh man those things taste like ASS, dude.
I also hate chocolate but those cacao nibs make chocolate taste good.
I wondered that myself. Is there a magical chocolate bar tree in the forest she rummages through?
Ahahaha, there is, but you have to eat a substantial amount of mushrooms and clay to see it.
Raw chocolate is chocolate made with raw cacao instead of the heavily processed stuff. It has far more antioxidants/nutrients. I love it, even the milk varieties actually taste like proper chocolate whereas regular milk chocolate you get in the supermarket just tastes like sugar and vegetable fat to me.
A popular raw chocolate brand: https://lovingearth.net/products
She’s as thick as a plank. The ‘fight or flight’ response originates in the autonomic nervous system, it’s old/animal brain stuff so it’s not rational. In most threatening situations most (not psychopathic) people would choose to run like hell out of sheer self preservation. Fighting is option number two for the majority of us. This is why the Military are trained to fight – otherwise faced with a barrage of weaponry or indeed zombies and a collapsing Statue of Liberty/Big Ben they too would take the sensible option and run like bloody blazes…
Exactly what I was thinking about the fight or flight response. Well said.
Ugh, YES! That bothered me, too. You never actually know how you’ll react to a situation like that until you’re in it.
I like her.. She seems sweet, positive and open. Very interesting kid.
She really screams “try hard”. She wants to appear strong and tough, completely independent of the constraints of being a woman, as if that and that alone will be her identifier. She’s the girl who screams “I’ll kick your ass” but will run the minute you take your earrings off.
Thank you 👏👏👏 it gets so annoying.
We are living in a world where Eva Green now plays Shailene Woodley’s mom. Yeah, Shailene plays a teen but whatevs.
Yup. Eva is a whopping 11 years older than Shailene. Ridiculous.
I actually get what she means about loving being fit and that she can run anywhere. I haven’t thought about zombies or the apocalypse but in everyday situations being fit can be helpful. If your car breaks down you can walk/run somewhere to get help. If the building is on fire or there is an earthquake you can get your butt out of the building on your own. If you need to drop your car off at the shop you can run or walk the miles back home so you don’t have to sit in a boring place for 3 hours. You can walk the 10 minutes or so the the metro to get home rather than wait for the shuttle which takes longer because of traffic. That last one is true. We have a shuttle bus outside our office that takes us to and from the metro and there are lazy people that actually use it every day. Some excuses are the heat or the cold. I can’t even imagine being that person. In the few situations I have mentioned above it wouldn’t even enter some people’s brains that walking or running somewhere as a possibility.
More smugness. No self esteem problems obviously…
I’m 23, and yes, people do have their shit together at this age. I don’t think every woman gets teared down on this site. Shailene is just so absurd and annoying that it’s bound to happen.
Is that the standard that we hold people to though?
I mean, is that how you pick your friends?
“Well she’s not falling out of the clubs drunk or doing anything questionable so…”
The fact is that intelligence MATTERS when you have a public platform like celebs do.
Around here, celebrities get held accountable for the silly things they say–this is the nature of celeb gossip. At some point, my favorites have gotten trashed too and trust me, my favorites are about as innocuous as you can get (Michelle Williams anyone?) —I just ignore the comments and move on. This is a place for snark, not a place to get butt-hurt because someone said something mean about your fave celeb.
Em-
You’re talking to a f*cking hippy here.
But if you want to see a REAL naturalist, a REAL herbalist and someone who actually LIVES everything that Shailene talks about, check out my best friend’s website (yes another annoying, shameless plug) because she’s the REAL DEAL:
http://www.thegreenwoman.com/
Sage teaches classes on herbalism and foraging. She lives in a f*cking yurt, only buys second-hand clothes, makes all her own soaps, and believes in reusing everything. Her carbon footprint is like, ZERO.
I’m not saying it has to be a contest of who’s more eco-friendly, but I guess I see a lot of contradictions between Shailene’s Hollywood lifestyle and a dedication to a truly natural way of living. It just comes across as very imitative, without real substance.
FTR, I’ve known Sage (of The Gaia School) since our second day in college. So for 18 years (yes, even at 23!), she has ALWAYS been like this. She is genuine, authentic, real and would never embrace the trappings of the Hollywood lifestyle, which directly oppose everything she believes in.
To my eyes, Shailene is cheapening what is a meaningful LIFESTYLE to many people by making it seem like a fun fad.
Yay! Finally someone actually clicked on that link! Ha ha….
Thanks for checking out, Em 🙂
For whatever reason, she bugs me. But, I’ve never seen her act. For all I know she could be a wonderful actress. After reading the Divergent series, I’ll never see the films out of fear that she won’t be at all like Tris.
She’s a fantastic actress.
She’s an okay actress. She can cry a lot.
@Lollipop: “She’s an okay actress. She can cry a lot”.
Yup…I totally agree. Okay, but Woodley’s acting has yet to really impress me…”Fault In Our Stars” included. I mean, yeah, Woodley can cry but…so can a lot of talented actresses.
Celebitchy, enough said? The style/tone is snarky and rarely veers into fan magazine territory. Unless of course you love Cumbers in batches.
I don’t know. I think Shailene is ridiculous with some of the things she says. Goofing on her is no worse than some of the poop that comes out in interviews.
But no one’s forcing you to read the comments. If it hurts your feelings to see celebs get trashed then maybe this simply isn’t the forum for you.
Fair enough, but I don’t see the hypocrisy that you speak of.
Some celebs are liked, some are not.
No hypocrisy there, just people expressing their opinion like you’re expressing yours.
If it seems over-the-top, you should understand that the topic of feminism is one that many women feel very strongly about. If one is to make irresponsible or ignorant comments about it, women will likely have a strong reaction. Personally, I find it heartening that so many people still feel invested in the discussion. Wish little Shailene felt the same way.
*shrugs*
I disagree.
Not when it comes to the topic of feminism.
Here’s a list off the top of my head of celebs that have gotten raked over the coals for their sheer obtuseness when it comes to feminism:
*Madonna
*Cam Diaz
*Gaga
*Lana Del Rey
*Taylor Swift
It’s really not unique to Shailene, it just isn’t.
We don’t have to agree on this and I certainly don’t think Shailene is the worst of the worst but I cannot support any actress who perpetuates a false definition of feminism. To me that’s NOT harmless at all, it’s actually pretty damaging.
She’s a good actress-that’s wonderful. I just wish she (and some of the others mentioned above) would stick to acting and leave the heavy topics for people who understand them.
I think you need to revisit the Amal posts. Plenty of commenters applauding her original fashion choices and commending her for her successful career as a lawyer.
Again, you can’t take people’s comments about celebrities personally. The truth is, none of us knows any actor personally–our opinions are based on speculation and conjecture. No one opinion is more valid than the other. If you go into these forums with an emotional investment, then you’ll quickly get irritated. Just relax and have fun with it and save the anger and annoyance for the Terry Richardson posts.
Stevie Nicks – ah, explains everything
I think it’s a shame that publicity and success for performers (actors/actresses/musicians etc. etc.) is so often tied to them being “likeable” and “personable”. I’d love to go back to the days of not knowing ANYTHING about the people that I see in the movies so I could see them more easily as their characters.
And now my 28 yr old @ss is gonna go sit on a porch and tell some kids to go get off my g0dd@mned lawn.
*Grump*
I have a relative who just turned 21 a week ago, and she is not only so pretty in a natural way, but a delight and sweet and really focused on college and becoming a teacher. She definitely has got a good head on her shoulders. She said she still feels like a kid, though, not grown up.
She was excellent in that movie, The Fault in Our Stars. It’s ironic she played someone really brainy, with a sharp, sardonic wit, and I believed her.
I agree with her about being fit and strong. When I am really fit and feel connected to my body, I feel happier. When I run I like feeling that strength in my legs. Not to mention I love not staring at the closet for an hour because nothing fits. It’s so hot here right now, all I want to do is be in the air-conditioning unless at the beach or pool or late at night when it cools down, which isn’t every night. So not so much running. I guess I shouldn’t have given away my treadmill, because running outdoors sucks right now with the humidity.
I think it’s just the fact that she’s been EVERYWHERE for such a long time now. If she had had a chance to go away for a wee while after “Divergent”, that would’ve helped. But she had to go straight from that (essentially) to “….Stars” which didn’t really do her any favours.
I like that bathing suit (?). Cool top.
She’s pretentious as hell, she’s Goop in the making and she says stupid and wrong things as facts and that feminsm quote was appaling.
“Sweet potatoes are unreal” LOL! Listen to yourself, woman!
Yeah, wtf did that mean?
K, did you read her comments about feminism? She’s not a feminist because she “loves men,” and feminism is taking power away from men? How can you say that’s harmless?
i’m pretty meh about Shailene, until she said that Feminism is basically discriminative, and she dislikes that word a lot.
i may be paraphrasing, but i think in many ways this is a damaging comment.
She had so much promise as possibly becoming a favorite of mine, until she opened her mouth to talk.
K,
She’s not harmless nor is she 13 years old. I hate using age to make excuses for poor behavior from Justin Biber to Kstew. I graduated from College at Shaileen’s age and was heading into my first job as a professional. She gets paid millions of dollars, has PR people to help her speak probably, has access to things that not even middle managers in a Fortune 500 company has. Yet she goes around saying socially irresponsible things that girls younger than her will be influenced by. Acts like she is some poor homeless girl who has to sleep on other people’s couches and wear her friend’s clothes.
Sounds like you are selective about which posts you read because every celebrity saying dumb things about feminism, giving out shaky medical advise or just being an obnoxious know it all gets called out. The daily Cumberbatch and Hiddleston kissy kissy and swooning posts I’m not into so I complained a bit then just stopped clicking on those posts. Very easy to avoid what you don’t like.
I too avoid the Hiddles and Cumberstan posts because of the very reason you stated.
Ugh. She’s one of the few actors who annoys me so much that I won’t see her films, regardless of the concept or the reviews or any praise for her performance. I see her and I want to throw rotten fruit at her.
I’m trying to think of who else annoys me to this extent, and the only name that’s immediately coming to mind is Tom Cruise.
No, we don’t need to tear apart EVERY woman. Today, there’s been a positive reaction toward Meryl Streep and Olivia Wilde, a fairly neutral one toward Anna Paquin, mixed opinions about Emma Stone, and a hostile reaction to Melanie Griffith (that one I don’t get; I feel sorry for her).
Shailene attracts negative attention because she’s constantly saying stupid things. When I was 23, I had my shit together enough not to do that. I don’t think a lack of having it together is really Shailene’s problem anyway. Her issue appears to be more that she latches onto ideas and issues strongly without having bothered to learn much about them, and that her tone when discussing her scant information about these topics veers toward being condescending. In my experience, that’s not something people grow out of naturally.
I had bought a house before my 23 birthday – and I only just turned 24. I had graduated from a program, and have a job where I’m in charge of customers website maintenance/venting/making sure things run properly. I hate the argument about age.
What is this shit together stuff? Silly phrase anyhow, but very smug to be telling everyone that you are in your early twenties and your shit is together, as several posters have. There is believe me plenty of time for it to separate or whatever the opposite is, as you go through the next six or so decades of your life, though I hope it doesn’t .
I honestly don’t know what K was referring to with that statement, because I don’t think Shailene’s annoying statements are the result of immaturity or anything similar.
That being said, even if someone manages to “have her shit together” (in this case, meaning “say relatively sensible things”) at 23 and then lapses into blathering idiocy by 43, that’s still a fairly good indication that the underlying issue isn’t a person’s age.
I’m so tired of her already, and she’s been known for what… a month and a half? I think she’s just young and she really is just trying to find the place she fits in. Okay, the interviewers bring it up, but is it really necessary that her weird hippie proclivities are brought up EVERY time? Like, yeah, I got it the first time. This girl likes nature and isn’t fond of consumerism. Good on her. So… eh… is there anything mildly interesting to you besides that?
And the Jennifer Lawrence comparisons are just so stupid and nonsensical. It’s kinda bad for her, actually, that “Shailene Woodley” isn’t interesting enough to be promoted as that and instead go for “The less pretty, less badass, and less funny version of Jennifer Lawrence who actually has nothing in common with her other than short hair”.
Anyway, she seems harmless and from what I saw in The Descendants, very talented for her age. I don’t mind her around as long as she shuts up a little bit.
This is the first time I click on a post about her. I’ll never do this again.
i wish she’s honour her body by givingher mouth a rest. She bores me……..
I’m forever baffled by her.
I like Shailene, but what bothers me is I just read an article in June’s Marie Claire (with J Law on the cover) about a gal who had panic attacks, and it mentioned ‘fight or flight’, and specifically, the gal said, “I didn’t always make the right choices, but what mattered was that I was making choices. Of fight-flight, it was the fight.” It is an excerpt sectioned out in the article, in bold. Maybe Miss Shailene just reads the same magazines as we do . . . and ‘naturally’ copies folks who say cool shit?