These are photos of Shailene Woodley with her best bud, Laura Dern, on a lunch run last week. Shailene’s Insurgent press tour is raring up, and so far, so good. I’m pretty sure her PR team told her to stay quiet on feminism this time around. Shailene had an interesting experience with the first Divergent movie. After the movie wrapped, she dumped her worldly possessions and couch surfed for months. I don’t feel like she’s pulling one over on us with this free and easy persona. This is who Shailene really is, but I wonder how she’ll fare long term in the world of Hollywood superficiality. Will she grow weary of the spotlight and playing the same role in her current franchise?
Shailene did a press conference last Friday. She talks about her lack of excitement to return to the Tris role. To be fair, Insurgent was a terrible book — one I would have thrown across the room, had it not been a Kindle edition. People describes Shailene’s attitude as “been there, done that,” which may be accurate:
Returning for Insurgent: “Getting back into Tris was much more difficult than I anticipated because I didn’t take into account that I, myself, had grown for a year. I figured getting back into [Tris] would be simple because I would just go back into that mindset, but my personal mindset had progressed a year in evolution.”
Her role’s shifting requirements: “[In] the first movie, we did a lot of choreography and fight training, and this one was basic sort of fitness — there wasn’t anything too intense. [For the first movie] we were on wires and we would slide down, and there was one where it was almost a 90-degree angle. I was like, ‘If I don’t grab this pole, I’m not going to get hurt, but I’m going to be dangling in the air and probably get a really bad wedgie.'”
On Tris as a role model: “It’s great to have a platform for, not only younger girls, but for everyone to recognize that relationships can be based in truth and be vulnerable, and that keeping somebody at arms length [is a personal defense] to protect our own inner vulnerabilities — not because of anything that they’re doing.”
[From People]
Does Shailene sound ungrateful? She knew Divergent was a franchise, so it’s a tough call. Shailene’s admitting the difficulty in getting back into the mindset. She uses the word “evolution,” but that’s the stuff that always comes out of her mouth. Shailene took some time off, crafted weapons from nature and foraged for leeks. Of course it was a jolt to return to studio life, and yes … Insurgent goes nowhere as a sequel.
Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet & WENN
I hate the divergent series. It’s so badly written. You could take out 3/4 of the books and still get a gist of the plot, so the movies are a waste of time to me. If they split the third one, it’s going to be even more of a disaster.
The author being so young/attractive is probably what got it published in the first place for marketing reasons.
How could they possibly split the third book into 2 movies?!? Are they actually thinking about doing that? The first book was decent, so I downloaded the last two, and finished them just because I have to finish a book/series once I start. But it really was not a good series.
I could not even be bothered starting the 3rd book, I just lost interest. About the only other series I’ve actively not finished was Twilight, aside from that I’m pretty much compelled to finish reading anything I start. So yeah, it’s a boring boring series.
There’s a toutube channel called cinema sins. Often the comments are nit picking but with that movie they made valid points and pretty much show you the entire film in a matter or minutes along with all the wtf’s.
I needed it because I was absolutely lost watching that film.
My book club tried to read this series but it was so bad we stopped half way into book 2. Not getting the hype…
I picked up the set on kindle for 9.99 – and felt like I HAD to read them all because I bought them. I tried and tried and just couldn’t do it. Half way through the second I had to finally just call it.
I loved the first book. Then they went downhill so fast. I really wanted the hours I spent reading them back.
Agreed. As much as I liked Divergent, I still refuse to read the third book.
is the third book called Convenient?
if it isn’t, it should be.
Agreed. I enjoyed the 1st book enough to download the second. But I barely made it through Insurgent and refused to torture myself with the third installment.
The Honest Trailer for the first one is awesome.
Right! I love it! “Seriously guys, we already did this!”
I find your kind of annoying, but I don’t think she sounds ungrateful here. She’s young and growing up, it kind of makes sense what she said about returning to a character in the same place though you’ve changed some.
I agree–she didn’t really sound ungrateful at all.
I don’t think she sounded ungrateful either.
True. She just said it was difficult.
Agree.
She has a tough time saying normal things that come out very entitled or disconnected, or (like here) ungrateful.
Her “evolution”? God, she’s pretentious.
Translation: now that I’m playing in the big leagues, I want to put some distance between myself and the sub-Hunger Games franchise that helped put me there. I don’t blame her – it must be frustrating when you’re locked into completing a second-tier project and have to pass on better opportunities.
I agree and judging by the lackluster performances I am seeing from the main cast in the trailers, I don’t think she was alone in that feeling. I did not think Divergent looked that great but Insurgent looks worse.
What color is that dress exactly: Split Pea and Ham, Baby Diaper, or 1970s Leather Couch?
hahaha, yeah it’s a pretty horrible hue.
it’s a shame she’s so insufferable, because I find her ridiculously pretty
She was smart to go away for awhile. I almost missed her. Well, actually, I forgot about her, but I’m not sick of her anymore.
Her hair looks AWFUL!! They would have been better off making her wear a wig!! She looks extremely different while the other characters are recognizable. It takes me out of the movie.
What I want to know is if her hair dye is all natural and biodegradable. Is it 100% safe for the environment? Or is it ok to cast aside your lifestyle and environmental concerns for the movie?
I had the first two books forever and recently chunked them w/o opening them- reading the movie reviews, it did seem like same old, same old. I agree the trailer for the second is an incoherent mess. Any ideas for how it’s tracking for its opening weekend?
I can’t stand this girl. Go away.
So easy to be faux homeless when you’ve got millions in the bank to fall back on. This girl is insufferable.
But she walked the walk before she had that money. It’s a lifestyle she chose early on and is well educated on it. If she had her millions and then left to live in the woods i’d give a side eye. Or if she started buying expensive things to just have, but she’s not.
Well, BeaveOf Sunshine, just collect your checks, fulfill your obligations, then you can go back to building damns and eating pine needles or wahtever. She is clearly dying to make indies a la Kstew, and I’m sure she will get the chance. To be fair, she is a very good actress. I just cannot stand her.
I can’t read the article. I keep giggling from the title. She’s so hippy.
I Can’t with her almost as much as Ariana Grande. You’re an actress – it’s your JOB to assume personas that don’t match your own. Talk about your first world problems.
She’s annoying at times, but there’s also something refreshingly earnest about her. I get the impression she’d much rather be selling essential oils and healing crystals from a roadside stand or be a WWOOF-er than live the A-list life