Shailene Woodley takes a walk down memory lane as she rewatches scenes from her classic works including 'The Fault in Our Stars,' 'Big Little Lies,' 'Divergent,' 'The Descendants,' 'The Secret Life of the American Teenager,' 'Three Women' and more.
New episodes of Three Women air Fridays on STARZ.
Director: Jameer Pond
Director of Photography: Kevin Dynia
Editor: Cory Stevens
Talent: Shailene Woodley
Producer: Madison Coffey
Line Producer: Romeeka Powell
Associate Producer: Lyla Neely
Production Manager: Andressa Pelachi
Production Coordinator: Elizabeth Hymes
Talent Booker: Jenna Caldwell
Camera Operator: Caleb Weiss
Gaffer: Vincent Cota
Production Assistant: Karla Torres
Set Designer: Jeremy Derbyshire-Myles
Post Production Supervisor: Christian Olguin
Post Production Coordinator: Ian Bryant
Supervising Editor: Doug Larsen
Additional Editor: Jason Malizia
Assistant Editor: Billy Ward
New episodes of Three Women air Fridays on STARZ.
Director: Jameer Pond
Director of Photography: Kevin Dynia
Editor: Cory Stevens
Talent: Shailene Woodley
Producer: Madison Coffey
Line Producer: Romeeka Powell
Associate Producer: Lyla Neely
Production Manager: Andressa Pelachi
Production Coordinator: Elizabeth Hymes
Talent Booker: Jenna Caldwell
Camera Operator: Caleb Weiss
Gaffer: Vincent Cota
Production Assistant: Karla Torres
Set Designer: Jeremy Derbyshire-Myles
Post Production Supervisor: Christian Olguin
Post Production Coordinator: Ian Bryant
Supervising Editor: Doug Larsen
Additional Editor: Jason Malizia
Assistant Editor: Billy Ward
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00:00You're only young once.
00:01You should be having a little fun.
00:05Oh, she had fun, y'all.
00:07She had fun.
00:09Hey, I'm Shailene Woodley, and today I'm
00:12going to be watching some scenes from my career
00:14with Vanity Fair.
00:15I'm very excited.
00:17For one second, just focus on Anna, please.
00:35I understand that the story ends in the middle of a sentence
00:37because she dies or that she becomes too sick to continue.
00:41I am not interested in talking about that book.
00:42But that doesn't mean that her family and her friends
00:44don't have a future, right?
00:45Right?
00:46First of all, anytime I see myself as Hazel Grace
00:48because my hair is so short and my brother and I
00:51look so similar, I just see my brother.
00:54The whole film was sort of leading up
00:55to this last week of being able to go to Amsterdam
00:58and film these scenes and work with Willem.
01:01Willem's generosity as an actor and his presence
01:04was so wonderful to be across from
01:07and to receive and play with and react to
01:10because most of the film had just been Ansel and I.
01:13He brought such a different energy to this movie.
01:18He served as this mysterious character for Hazel Grace
01:21for so long in her imagination that this scene really
01:25was the valve where she got to not be
01:27the one with all the answers.
01:29And she got to ask all the questions.
01:31I remember it being like a very satisfyingly
01:34emotional scene to film.
01:36They're fiction.
01:37They cease to exist the moment the novel ends.
01:39But they can't.
01:41I get it in a literary sense or whatever.
01:43I can't do this later, I...
01:44It's impossible not to imagine what...
01:46I will not indulge your childish whims.
01:48I refuse to pity you in the manner
01:50in which you're accustomed.
01:51Hey, I do not want your pity.
01:52Of course you do.
01:53Like all sick kids, your existence depends on it.
01:56This phase of my life, I remember people
01:59would say to me constantly,
02:01oh my God, your life is going to change so much.
02:03Once Divergent comes out, Fault in Our Stars,
02:05it's going to be so different.
02:06And the only thing that was different
02:08was that I was a little bit busier.
02:10I was on more planes.
02:11I got like great delta miles.
02:13And that's kind of it.
02:16Like my lifestyle is not very exploitative.
02:20I don't spend a lot of time in places
02:22where there are paparazzi or cameras or...
02:26I'm sure if I had leaned into that,
02:27my life would have changed a lot.
02:29But it didn't interest me.
02:30And it wasn't what fed my soul.
02:32What fed my soul was...
02:34Like after we finished Fault in Our Stars,
02:35I was 21.
02:38And we finished it in Amsterdam.
02:40And I moved to Italy and just lived in Italy
02:42as a 21-year-old in a farming village
02:45where no one spoke English.
02:46And I spoke no Italian and I had to learn Italian.
02:48And a lot of my 20s during this heightened moment
02:52of maybe what externally to the world
02:55looked like a big life of fame,
02:57for me felt like a life of abundance
03:00because I was doing what I loved
03:02and I never took it for granted.
03:04And then in the in-between moments
03:05when I wasn't on a film set,
03:07I was living the life that I wanted to live
03:09and seeking out experiences
03:12that fed my young adult life.
03:20You behind this petition?
03:22Excuse me?
03:23I asked you a fucking question.
03:24Whoa, whoa, whoa, calm down.
03:26Was it you?
03:27What are you going to do, huh?
03:28Choke me?
03:29Whoa, whoa, whoa, hey!
03:31Excuse me!
03:32Stop, stop!
03:34Oh my God!
03:35What the hell is wrong with you?
03:36I'm going to shoot you!
03:38This scene makes me laugh
03:39because I love Laura so much.
03:42We get on like she's my sister.
03:44We're homies.
03:45This scene was funny to film
03:47and it's also funny for me to watch
03:48because we did this eight years ago,
03:50almost eight and a half years ago.
03:52And the way that I experience my confrontation
03:55now or my rage or anger is so different.
03:58I see I'm like, oh my God, Jane, me,
04:01I was so angsty during this time in my life.
04:03When I watched this scene,
04:04I see a young woman trying to figure out
04:07how to exert her power and not know where to place it.
04:11She's not really living from like
04:13a grounded place in her body.
04:15She's living from sort of this,
04:17how do I assert control in a situation
04:20that feels so out of my control?
04:22I have to do something about it
04:23and I don't really know what to do.
04:25Is her eye okay?
04:27Apparently.
04:28She'll be fine.
04:30I need to get out of this town as soon as possible.
04:32I got a call in 20,
04:34I'll never forget, it was November or October of 2015.
04:38I was really sick at the time
04:39and I was not at all exhausted by acting
04:44or the artistry and the craft of storytelling,
04:46but I was really exhausted by the act of Hollywood.
04:51And I got a call about Big Little Lies
04:54because Jean-Marc Vallée,
04:55our beautiful creator, director,
04:59who has since passed, had wanted me to play Jane.
05:03And I was desperate to work with him.
05:05I thought he was such an incredible artist and filmmaker,
05:08but I was really dead set on finding myself.
05:11And then I got a call from Laura
05:14the day before I left for India
05:15or maybe I was actually already in India
05:17and I hadn't turned my phone off yet.
05:18And she just said, listen,
05:20I know where you're at in your life.
05:22I've been there before too.
05:24It's a lot.
05:25This world is an illusion,
05:27but what isn't an illusion is what you love to do
05:30and what I see in you, Shea, is your purpose
05:32at least in this moment in your life
05:34is to be a storyteller.
05:37And I think it's a massive mistake
05:39for you to walk away from this opportunity
05:41that you really should lean into.
05:42It was because of that call that I decided to leave India
05:45and come back to the United States
05:47and it forever changed my life.
05:49And so in so many ways, I'm grateful for Laura,
05:52but that was a massive moment of courageous friendship
05:55to say I think that you're making a mistake
05:57and I'm gonna be brave enough to tell you why
06:00because I really see you
06:01and I see something you can't see
06:02in your own life right now.
06:04Just wanted to say that I'm so sorry.
06:07I completely lost control and I stepped out of line
06:10and I should have never shoved you like that
06:11and there's no excuses and I'm so sorry.
06:14Yeah.
06:15The beautiful thing about Big Little Lies
06:17is that we're all actually friends in real life.
06:20We have a text chain going
06:21and it's constantly like a check-in every few weeks.
06:25Hey, what's the update?
06:26It's still happening.
06:27I keep being told that there's going to be a season three,
06:29but I haven't read anything yet, so.
06:32♪♪
06:38Don't get me wrong.
06:41There's a certain beauty in your resistance,
06:44your defiance of categorization.
06:47But it's a beauty we can't afford.
06:49One of my favorite things about watching
06:51these divergent scenes with Kate
06:53is that we've become very close
06:54since filming these movies.
06:57And she's so silly.
06:59She's one of the silliest, playful, hilarious,
07:04like lives in the frequency of joy humans that I know.
07:08And to watch her and I as enemies in this,
07:12oh gosh, it's so funny.
07:13Why am I enemies with all my friends
07:15when I'm in movies?
07:16It doesn't make any sense.
07:18Fuck.
07:27I loved Divergent and the whole series
07:30because of the action.
07:31I love action so much.
07:33To me, it's like dancing, and I love to dance.
07:35It's just like movement choreography fascinates me.
07:38And I was so lucky in this movie
07:40to have the most remarkable stuntwoman.
07:43Her name's Alicia.
07:44And she had just finished doing Avatar, the first one.
07:48And she was the woman who made all of the movements
07:51and created all the movements.
07:53And I remember I was just like in between takes.
07:56I'd just sit and watch her like a little nerd
07:58because I was fascinated by that side of movie magic.
08:02What you don't get to see when you see this movie,
08:04you think it's me being Tris.
08:06But half of the scene is Alicia
08:09making me look like a badass.
08:11The wild thing about stunts is that they really,
08:15they are dangerous no matter what.
08:18No matter how skilled you are,
08:20no matter how many times you practice a routine,
08:22there's always the chance that something can go wrong.
08:25I don't think I've ever talked about this.
08:27We were doing this scene where I'm running down
08:29the track trying to catch the train.
08:31I grabbed the train handle,
08:33but my boot got stuck in one of the cracks
08:36of the platform I was running on.
08:38And I had 0.1 seconds to decide
08:41whether I was gonna dislocate my shoulder
08:43or just fall full sprint onto my head.
08:47And so I thought that that might be the better idea,
08:49which in retrospect,
08:50I don't know if that was the right decision.
08:52And fully fell face forward.
08:54I remember coming to and everyone being like,
08:56are you okay, are you okay, are you okay?
08:57And that was at the phase in my life
08:59where I was like, I have to be a hero all the time.
09:01I can't ever ask for help.
09:02But yeah, I'm fine, I'm totally fine.
09:04And somehow finished that day.
09:07And I remember getting home
09:09and looking at myself in the mirror and being like,
09:10oh, I'm seeing three of myself right now.
09:13I am so not okay.
09:14Stunts are, it's a no joke game to be a part of,
09:18but I do love it.
09:19Ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah.
09:27I felt very devoted to what the story
09:30and what this series was and what it meant to people.
09:32And it was also just fun.
09:34I got to like, I was,
09:35we were making these movies with our homies,
09:37like Zoe Kravitz, isn't it?
09:39And Miles Teller and Theo James.
09:41Like it was just a good time.
09:43A sweaty, hot time for years in a row in Atlanta.
09:46I definitely wanted to make the fourth one.
09:48What faction do you think that you would be a part of?
09:52I'm just like, dauntless by nature.
09:54I really love tactical shit.
09:56I kind of like the group mentality
09:58of being a little bit of a rebel.
10:00I don't know, I'm a Scorpio, I can't help it.
10:02♪♪
10:09Look, whatever you two fought about over Christmas,
10:11you have to drop it.
10:13Grow up.
10:14You love your mother, your mother loves you.
10:16I can't drop it.
10:17You have to.
10:18This scene in particular was a scene that I auditioned with.
10:21And my first audition,
10:23I walked out of it feeling like, I slayed it.
10:25I'm going to get this movie.
10:26And I didn't get a call back.
10:28And I was so confused.
10:30And I begged my agents for a year, almost.
10:34I emailed them every week and said,
10:36please just get me notes, please get me notes.
10:38What did I do wrong?
10:38I know I'm supposed to do this film.
10:40And the casting director was just like,
10:41Alexander's not interested, like, she wasn't good.
10:44I went in and I cried and it was this whole thing.
10:47And finally, after a year of me bugging my agents,
10:49I was able to get a call back.
10:51And they gave me some notes, and the notes were like,
10:53don't cry, don't do anything, just be honest.
10:56And that was the audition that got me the movie.
10:59Ted.
11:01Ted, Mom was cheating on you.
11:06That is what we fought about.
11:09When I was home at Christmas, I caught her with a guy.
11:13On the day when we were doing this scene,
11:16AP came up to me, sat by the couch, and put his hands up.
11:19And he looked me in the eye and he just said, stop acting.
11:23But like in a really kind, compassionate, gentle way.
11:26Be you is really like what he meant.
11:29That one note that Alexander gave me,
11:30I feel like shaped my entire career,
11:32as far as who I became as an actor.
11:34And that's what this scene taught me how to do.
11:37And this was the scene where I got to learn it for myself,
11:40because of Alexander.
11:41Caught her with a guy, what does that mean?
11:44I was on my way to swim in the Black Point pool of brandy,
11:48and suddenly I see mom and some douchebag
11:50walking into a house.
11:53His house, I guess.
11:55Just some guy, it could be anybody.
11:57He had his hand on her ass.
12:00It was gross.
12:01The only film I had seen George in before working
12:04on The Descendants was Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?
12:06Because I didn't really know much about film.
12:09And so I knew he was this big movie star guy,
12:11but I didn't care that he was a big movie star guy.
12:14I got to know George because he would play basketball
12:16with the Transpo guys.
12:18He would hang out at lunch with the caterers, with the crew.
12:22He's such a professional and such a genuine human being
12:30who just loves to do what he does.
12:33And being around that energy every day as a young person
12:36was so inspiring.
12:38Because to me, I was like, this is what
12:39film sets should feel like.
12:41And now that I've worked on many,
12:42it's not usually the case.
12:45It's a very rare thing to have an actor
12:47be as involved with the set and the crew as George was.
12:50To this day, one of the most profound experiences
12:52of my life.
12:59You know, I could call up that Kim Jong-il wannabe
13:02and complain if you want.
13:03I mean, by the time you get home,
13:04you barely even have time to eat and do your homework,
13:06let alone have any fun.
13:10You're only young once.
13:12You should be having a little fun.
13:15Oh, she had fun, y'all.
13:18She had fun.
13:19I mean, I was 15 when I shot this scene,
13:22when I started Secret Life.
13:24I didn't know who Molly Ringwald was.
13:25I was 15, didn't grow up with a TV.
13:27Like, every one of my parents' friends were like,
13:29you're working with Molly Ringwald.
13:31And I was like, what is her?
13:32Why?
13:32I don't get it.
13:33Because I had never seen Breakfast Club or Sixteen
13:35Candles or any of her films.
13:37So I got to know her as just this beautiful older sister,
13:41motherly figure to me who was really
13:43protective of honoring my authenticity as a young person
13:50and who I was.
13:51And just being like a kiddo, playing a kiddo,
13:54she protected me in that way.
13:56And I'm so thankful for that because there
13:58is a pressure for people to grow up very quickly,
14:01especially when it comes to Hollywood.
14:03And I mean, listen, the truth is I was 15 years old.
14:06I signed a contract for six years
14:09having read one episode.
14:11And look, I'm so thankful for Secret Life.
14:13I got one of my best friends, Megan Park,
14:15who's smashing it as a writer and a director right now.
14:17I got to meet Molly.
14:19There's so many beautiful things that
14:20happened because of Secret Life.
14:22And also, there was a lot of lessons
14:24that I learned in terms of storytelling in general
14:28and the types of messages that I
14:30want to be putting into the world
14:32or maybe not putting into the world.
14:33And Secret Life was a great opportunity
14:36to learn those lessons at a very young age,
14:39starting with if you sign a contract,
14:41maybe read more than just one episode.
14:43It was a fun journey.
14:44And it was a great time.
14:45And I definitely learned a lot.
14:48I should know better than to drink what they gave me.
14:51These were boys that you knew?
14:53Oh, yeah.
14:54Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
14:55But still.
14:57Anyway, it's not like it hurt your face,
15:00even though it was a, because, no, what they gave me,
15:03like, really, I mean, it works.
15:05It knocked me out.
15:06You know, I did not feel anything.
15:08And Gia is sort of explaining to Lena
15:11after hearing you talk about it,
15:13like, how did you feel about it?
15:15I was sort of explaining to Lena,
15:17after hearing some very vulnerable confessions from her,
15:21how subconsciously Lena has created a life for herself
15:26that mirrors the value of her own self-worth
15:29because of an event that happened to her
15:31when she was younger.
15:32This is something that I'm familiar with
15:34because of friends of mine
15:35who have been through something very similar.
15:38It's shocking to imagine that this happens
15:40to so many women, but it does.
15:42And so being able to handle this scene
15:46with a lot of care and a lot of devotion
15:49to the truth of what this experience can be like
15:51for so many people with Betty
15:54and have them echo and mirror these two characters
15:57and their experience was wild and trippy
16:00and emotional and difficult.
16:01And I think raw is just the best word to use.
16:04It's an opportunity to see how some of us
16:08grapple with trauma and actually don't grapple with it.
16:12Because it like ripples through the rest of your life.
16:14Dude, the trauma of assault.
16:15Wait, can you stop saying that losing Aiden was the trauma?
16:18No, that's not true.
16:22Huh?
16:23It's, I just think there's like, there's no way.
16:25It's my fault that I went with those guys, right?
16:27If I had trusted Aiden. It is not your fault.
16:29Lena, dude.
16:31Literally is.
16:32It is not.
16:33She is an interesting character
16:35because the character of Gia personality-wise
16:38was an amalgamation of some things
16:39that I thought she should be,
16:40some things Lisa thought she should be,
16:42and then whatever the cosmos wanted her to be.
16:45For me, the similarities that I found in myself with her
16:49are that we are both just kind of hungry for truth.
16:53And I think Gia was very aware of that
16:55and very curious to understand why things happen
16:59the way that they happen.
17:00And one of my best friends, her child is a lot older now,
17:03but when he was about two,
17:04I just remember it was like a year of,
17:06but why, but why, but why, but why?
17:10He just, everything was a but why.
17:12And to me, that's who Gia is.