“The letter was extremely long, like 40 pages long, and … I didn’t technically know who Shailene Woodley was,” he said. “You’ve never seen a woman on the poster for a movie with a cannula in her nose.”Īlthough Woodley said she wasn’t gunning for the role of Hazel when she wrote Green, the author remembers that exchange a bit differently. “In ‘Fault,’ I am trying to rewrite what a female lead can look like,” Woodley said.

The 22-year-old actress, who is developing a reputation for pushing back against Hollywood’s rules, recently explained to New York Magazine the impact she thinks “Fault In Our Stars” could have. Time magazine didn’t name it “The Best YA Novel of 2012” it recognized it as the year’s best book, period, the kind of endorsement Woodley could get behind. Young adult books and sex: What we learned under the covers Author Green had already amassed a fan base when “The Fault In Our Stars” was released as a novel in January 2012, one devoted enough to earn him the title of “The Teen Whisperer.”īut “The Fault In Our Stars” has stretched far beyond its intended young adult demographic, selling millions of copies and sticking to The New York Times Young Adult best-seller list for 78 weeks. The adaptation, now in theaters, is faithful to its beloved source material, which chronicles the romance between two cancer patients with humor, intelligence and honesty.

If the movie version of “The Fault In Our Stars” is anything like the book, Woodley will soon be proven right.

Because I knew that it would change the lives of millions of people.” “I didn’t say I needed to be Hazel,” Woodley said at the movie’s New York premiere on June 2.

Long before she landed the role of Hazel Grace, a bright 16-year-old facing cancer, she sent the novel’s author, John Green, an impassioned, lengthy e-mail rallying for “The Fault In Our Stars” to become a movie. Shailene Woodley isn’t just the lead actress in “The Fault In Our Stars.” She’s one of the book’s original fans.

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