They went home at the end of the night, and they’re like “oh my gosh I just got my period what do I do? Or oh my gosh I just had my first kiss,” you know? We’re all the same. But when a patient named Augustus Waters suddenly appears at Cancer Kid Support Group, Hazels story is about to be completely rewritten. A little bit researching the physicality of what is it like not to be able to breathe and have to carry around this oxygen tank, but for the most part it was about learning that they didn't go home at the end of night and necessarily think about their cancer. We didn't really talk about cancer too much. Woodley: For me, it was more about just getting to know them on a very human level.
I feel a responsibility for this book because this book represents so much and it’s so chockfull of beautiful messages that I felt like it was our duty to be the caretakers of it.įOX411: You met with cancer patients and heard their stories so responsibility in that regard to true to this experience? I mean, I don't necessarily even feel a responsibility for the fans. Shailene Woodley, already a subtle and rangy actress, easily carries the film as Hazel, a worldly.
FOX411: In terms of fans of this story, this movie, do you feel a great responsibility with that? Hazel (Shailene Woodley) and Gus (Ansel Elgort) share a sarcastic wit, a disdain for the ordinary, and a love that sweeps them on an. Ansel Elgort, Nat Wolff and Shailene Woodley in The Fault in Our Stars AP/20th Century Fox.