Nylon magazine released its full Shailene Woodley interview from their April issue. This is the same talk where she tripled down on her dislike of the feminist label. The rest of the interview is new-agey. Shailene planned a day of “picking lemons and harvesting honey” with this journo. She got sick, so they drank tea together instead. Shailene revealed how some sort of mysterious creature was “attacking her small intestine.” She doesn’t go into detail (thank god), but I wonder if her illness is connected to gathering her own spring water. Just a thought? Shailene certainly didn’t pop any Advil for this ailment.
Shailene talks about her amazing bone broth invention again, and she drops another one of her discoveries. She likes to eat bugs now because they’re so “great.” More pro tips can be found below, and there’s a deep amoeba analogy for film sets:
Still hooked on bone broth: “I was laughing on the way here because I was worried I had beef broth breath.”
The diet of the future: “I’ve eaten ants and that was great. And June bugs, that was great. I think the future of food is in insects, so we’ll see what happens. If I could. I would grow a pair of wings and fly.”
Saving the planet: “Everyone could and should do a lot for the planet. I think you should find one small thing that works for you and dedicate and commit to that one thing every single day. When you leave the house just unplug your toaster, coffee machine, your TV, which doesn’t need to be on all day.”
More pro tips: “Don’t ask for a straw in a restaurant. Make it a goal not to drink out of plastic as much as possible. Turn the shower off when you’re washing your body and don’t waste the water. There are a lot of small things out there, you just find the one that works for you.”
Her take on movie sets: “Being on a movie set to me is one of the greatest things. I could sleep on set. It’s like 200 people, and everyone has their own story. Everyone comes from somewhere different, and yet they’re all there together collaborating …. It’s sort of like a living, breathing amoeba, how it’s constantly moving and shape-shifting. And without all of its parts, it wouldn’t be able to flourish.”
[From Nylon]
Bugs are the diet of the future, people. This is nothing new. Some people do eat bugs (not just chocolate covered grasshoppers) as a source of protein. Bugs are in plentiful supply with very little demand as a food source. The thought of eating them IS gross. But are insects any more icky than what happens (out of sight) in food production already? I try very hard not to think of these things during dairy consumption. What goes into producing cottage cheese or milk is pretty nasty. At least you see what you’re getting with bugs.
Here’s Shailene lugging a crockpot in NYC last week. She’s serious about bone broth.
Photos courtesy of Hilary Walsh/Nylon, Fame/Flynet & WENN
I’ve eaten ants too! When I was three years old.
Eating bugs is the food of the past. Although I know they eat bugs as a delicacy in Southeast Asia.
They’re still a staple part of people’s diets in some areas – when I was living in Uganda you could pick them up in bags from street stalls for very little money. They’re quite a cheap and nutritious snack.
They don’t really taste of much, but worth trying.
Having said that, I did see scorpion vodka in a department store last week …
I am from Northern Australia, tropical region near Darwin we have green ants that are a sweet treat. You actually eat their big round green part, I’m not sure of the scientific name. But it’s tasty! There’s also worm things in the mangroves here that gets cooked up.
And when we go to my husband’s homelands, which is further south in the desert, we eat witchity grubs. All bush tucker for indigenous Australians. so i don’t really think of it as future, more traditional for my husband’s culture anyway.
Goes well with bone broth.
She should add them to her bone broth. At least she would be assured any parasitic passengers would be neutralized. But maybe she likes living on the edge and prefers them au natural.
She’s so annoying I don’t even know why I clicked on this.
Co-sign. Someone build her a giant ant hill out of edible clay so that she can disappear already.
I came to the comments JUST to say how obnoxious she is! I never say anything without reading the article, but I just can’t with her. I cannot!
+1
Agree. She needs to take a shower, scrub her hair with shampoo (double wash) and STFU.
She’s rapidly becoming the new “love to hate her” it girl.
Lol. Not sure if she’s reached Goop-fueled scorn just yet. But with her “I wish I could grow wings and fly” comment, she just inched ahead in my book. So she eats bugs and she wants to BE one? Does not compute.
Indeed. I want her to STFU already.
Everyone has their own story. Coming together. Working on something. … Like a job? She literally described a job. Mcdonalds. Working on set. I think I hate her. She says the dumbest stuff and thinks it’s profound.
OMG STAHP!! We get it girl, you’ve got it all figured out 🙂
That said, I have eaten ants too. There’s a website online that sells candied bugs like mealworms lollipops and sugared ants. I bought and tried it for the novelty. *shrugs*
*throws up hands in exasperation*
Ha – she cracks me up. I know annoyance should be the reaction, but I just always want to laugh at the things she says about health. Occasionally there will be some good advice but for the most part, it’s just funny.
Insurgent made with 3D less than Divergent. LOL
it’s actualy on par with what lionsgate was expecting and only away from divergent by 3-4 millions, hardly a flop. internationally is doing actually a lot better than the first installment, it already made almost half of what divergent did in less than a week
When you made 52M (With 3D and the prive of tickets highter) and the first made 54M then yes it isn’t a success. That numbers show that Insurgent had sold less tickets than Divergent and the franchise has lost audience. And the next is a split movie with probably an other drop on audience. Oh and this movie costed 110M.
52 mil on opening weekend still is a success, 3d or not and compared to the first movie or not. it only lost small % of the audience and it was always in the predictions of lionsgate to open with less than 60. no one is surprised by those numbers…. the budget was 110m and the movie is gonna reach it this week once included the overseas gross. it’s still likely to end with more money than what divergent did (but it will not break the 150m stateside at this point), and that was the plan all along and it will be enough to recover the cost…..
i can see problems for the splitting of the final movie in 2 parts (and they’re not gonna shoot them back to back so that will be interesting to see if they can survive the budget and probably less numbers than what insurgent is doing in the us) considering mockingjay did less than anticipated, but who knows…
This girl is so annoying. Her statement in isolation isn’t so bad but out with all the other crap she says she just seems so smug and self righteous. I hope her giardiasis or whatever is getting better, lol.
“I think the future of food is in insects, so we’ll see what happens. If I could. I would grow a pair of wings and fly.”
That is the best non sequitur ever ever ever EVER.
I think the future of bug-eating is processing. Bug butter spread. Bug nuggets. It’s going to take a lot of repackaging to appeal to prissy Westerners, ain’t it?
I was wondering if she was high at that point. Things she says would make way more sense.
On a more serious note, I think the goal to produce cheap high quality protein from bugs is admirable, I just can’t get over the squick.
I know! Why do you want to be a bug and fly, Shailene? So we can eat you?!
Well, bug protein costs less to produce in terms of energy and water consumption. A good compromise would be to produce bug protein for animal feed instead of the soybean and whathaveyou we use now. That would reduce the environmental cost of eating meat.
Really good article here: http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20141014-time-to-put-bugs-on-the-menu.
I’ll stick to my hemp seed protein powder.
I wish people would stop interviewing her. Just shaddup already.
Thank you. Just stop it.
Bravo!!!!! 😀
I do like what she says about picking one small thing that works for you to help the environment.
Everything else here makes me want to hit my head against the wall though.
I was gonna say the exact same thing, I liked that too.
I think she’s hilarious. Maybe she’s just trolling with her hippy-dippy tips?
I can’t hate her. I wonder if 15 years from now she will be mortified when she remembers these interviews. I know I feel like that, gawd I was preachy and a know it all with my vegan and feminist bla bla bla talk.
She’s anti-feminist, or haven’t you heard?
Is that a new crockpot or does she just carry it around from place to place since she supposedly just couch surfs
I don’t understand these people. Yesterday that guy Miles isn’t paying off his student loans even though he could and this chick probably has a few million, yet doesn’t want to get a place of her own, would prefer sleeping on the couch or floor of a friend. Am I crazy? If I bomb this interview today, I will only have a couple more months in my apartment and this jackass has the money to buy her own place, but won’t because she thinks it’s cute. Smh.
Good luck in your interview!!!
So, so smackable. Hold me back, because this one is just really good at getting on the one nerve I have left.
When she talked about eating bugs in the future, all I could think about was THAT scene in Snowpiercer.
UGH SHUT UP
She is so annoying! GO AWAY!
I. Just. Can’t.
Why doesn’t she just SHUT UP?!
Stir fried cockroaches. MMMmmm . . .
I wish she and Miles Teller would get together. Their collective smugness would consume them both and they’d vanish in a puff of pretentious bullshit.
Surprising no one, they actually ARE pretty close friends.
She got an eye roll from me for her feminism comments, but these here do not annoy me as much. She thinks obviously about some global problems and just like many young people finds the sea only knee deep. That’s showing in her comments IMO.
This girl needs to shut up. The more she talks, the more stupid she sounds. If a PR person is encouraging her to say all these “edgy” things, she needs to get a new one.
She’s actually totally right on this one- the amount of protein vs the cost of energy for bugs is off the charts compared to meat (not to mention water use). I don’t think I can do them straight, but as cricket flour sure. I’m already seeing those cricket energy bars being marketed, if there’s Chocolate, I could do that- everything is good w/ chocolate!
Yes, they are shockingly nutritious.
I think I’ll stick with my regular food. I’d rather have pizza than a handful of bugs
“WHY DOESN’T SHE SHUT UP ALREADY?”
….Cause she’s giving an interview. As part of her job. In which she’s asked her opinions on various subjects.
Exactly.
But june bugs? There’s no way. Just no way possible at all. Id rather eat a spider or a praying mantis.
Well, she might want to get some coaching from a PR team ’cause she’s not doing so well.
Next!
Ants. June Bugs. Bone broth. Stop. Just stop.
btw – you know what I ate tonight? Pepperidge Farm Milano cookies and some merlot. Sorry, ladies, but I’ll take that over ants, junes bugs and bone juice any day.
Who is this trick? What is she famous for?
She’s right about the bone broth, it is really good for you and easy to make. I eat pho a lot which has a bone broth base. Whenever I’m sick, hungover, or just tired I get some pho and it perks me right up.
As far as the bugs… she may be right about the nutritional value but I just can’t. If I even think there’s a bug in my food when I’m eating I lose my appetite.