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92 postsThe show ends with Woodley’s character, Amy Juergens, and Ricky Underwood, Darren Kagasoff, determining the course the rest of their lives will take. Kagasoff:
The finale episode was amazing because everybody knew this was the last time we were all going to be together so it was an emotional thing.
The first photo released from the set features Woodley undergoing an initiation for Dauntless. She says the cast have already clicked:
It’s a good group. We’re hanging out on weekends, celebrating birthdays. Everyone just wants to get to know one another. It’s rare to get a big group together and not have any conflicts. It’s really kind of amazing.
Woodley is offered the lead role. Boone:
During our exhaustive search to find Hazel Grace Lancaster, I saw some stunning auditions by today’s finest young actresses. Over 250 girls read for the part, but it wasn’t until Shailene stepped in front of the camera that I truly saw Hazel for the first time. It was like lightning striking. I can’t wait for the rest of the world to see what I have.
Seacrest interviews Woodley during On Air With Ryan Seacrest what she wants for Christmas.
I would love a juicer for Christmas. I don’t have one right now. I have a vitamix which I use every single day, but it’s so much fiber. So I think a juicer would be good too.
Producer Doug Wick says Woodley’s strengths make casting the part of Four a challenge:
We are meeting a whole generation of would-be male stars. The agents claim that they are the next Paul Newman, the next Steve McQueen. We have a real problem. Shai is blowing them off the screen.
Woodley is in talks to play Mary Jane Watson in the sequel.
Woodley is represented by the firms Paradigm, the Savage Agency, Principato-Young Entertainment and Felker Toczek Gellman Suddleson.
ABC cancels the teen drama after record low viewing numbers for the start of the fifth season.
Woodley auditions for the character Tris and is cast after her first reading. Producer Doug Wick:
We have to believe that this girl, raised in Abnegation, has the inner strength to become a warrior. There has to be something original about her. She needs a few drops of James Dean. She has to be unconventional, she has to be Divergent. … By the end of the meeting, we know we had found the perfect Tris.
Woodley stars as teen mother Amy Juergens in the fifth season of the drama. Co-starring Darren Kagasoff as Ricky Underwood. On the wedding between Amy and Ricky in the upcoming season:
Our show wouldn’t be what it is without constant new obstacles (laughs), but yeah, it looks like — it appears — that the wedding is going to happen. And I think that fans will be very excited to see what actually goes down. Then, in a few more episodes, there might be another shocker.
Woodley talks to TV Line about Secret Life, The Spectacular Now and the opportunity that The Descendants gave her to work with George Clooney.
That was a totally magical time in my life, and it changed a lot about who I am today. It was a dynamic experience which I feel so lucky to have had.
Woodley appears on the cover of the June 2012 issue of ASOS magazine. She talks about not paying attention to fame, criticism on her Oscar dress, and looking towards being in movies.
Movies are where my heart is at. I love dark roles – roles that appear scary. Not in a horror film way, but like ‘Black Swan’ or ‘The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.’ Films that take the audience on an emotional journey. And I would love to play Patti Smith in a film one day – I’m re-reading her autobiography, I’m obsessed with it.
Woodley appears on the cover of the March 2012 issue of Malibu magazine. She talks about taking acting classes and dressing up.
No, I’m not a girlie girl at all. I never wear dresses. I’m always in either long, baggy skirts that I can still do ‘crisscross applesauce’ in, or blue jeans. I’m very lucky to work with a stylist who cares about fashion, because I don’t at all. And I’m very lucky to have a makeup artist and hair guy who are really good at what they do, because I would go to events with no makeup and no hair and in pajamas if I could.
Woodley is featured in LA Confidential as one of the actors who made a difference during the year.
I love to act—the expression and the creation of it. But the day it becomes not fun, then I’ll quit. It’s only about giving me those butterflies, and if I don’t have those… It’s not about the glamour and the makeup and the dresses and the red carpets—for me, it’s about being on a film set, in front of a camera, and being able to portray myself as any given character.
Woodley appears on the cover of the January/February 2012 issue of Coco Eco magazine. She talks about her passion for the eco-system, on believing what will be will be, and her lifelong goals.
Our population is so large, and there hasn’t been a company or an organization that has stepped up and provided organic food to people on a lower income level. So one of my goals in life is to start a giant organic, biodynamic farm and have it fun like a community, but sell the produce for less than conventional prices. I think the education is an important element for me too.
Woodley plays Alexandra King in the Alexander Payne adaptation of the novel by Kaui Hart Hemmings. As her father struggles to sell a land estate and save his fortune and her mother lies in a coma, the troubled 17-year-old comes to terms with her dysfunctional family.
George [Clooney] told me the night of that scene that the key to being drunk is to pretend like you’re not drunk. When you’re drunk and someone says, ‘Ha, you’re wasted,’ you say ‘I’m not drunk — I’m not even buzzed’ even though you’re belligerent.
Woodley is interviewed for The Hollywood Reporter about going from working on teen dramas such as The Secret Life Of The American Teenager to acting alongside George Clooney in The Descendants:
It’s been this ladder that I’ve been climbing up, and I’m still climbing!
Woodley stars as teen mother Amy Juergens in the drama’s fourth season. Co-starring Darren Kagasoff as Ricky Underwood and Ken Baumann as Ben Boykewich. On the season premiere:
Oh my gosh, so much drama, so many secrets. There could possibly be a marriage, there could possibly be someone falling in love, someone might fall out of love, someone might move in with someone else, so there’s a lot going on.
Woodley gives an interview to TV Chick about the way The Secret Life Of The American Teenager approaches sex:
Having been in high school three years ago, it’s definitely a big issue. Kids are having sex with other kids and not really paying attention to the consequences. So I think it’s important — whatever your decision is, if you decide to be sexually active that’s totally fine, just make sure you protect yourself and make sure you’re safe about it because if you do get an STD, you have it for the rest of your life. And if you have a child, you have that for the rest of your life as well.
