![]() That’s why they’re lucky to have an actress as effortlessly charismatic and natural as 22-year-old Woodley ( The Descendants, Divergent) as their stand-in. They can sniff out condescension from a thousand yards. ![]() A generation of teens like her have been weaned on YA novels (including the 2012 John Green best-seller this is based on), leading to more discerning palates. ![]() And it’s safe to say that Hazel Grace would have hated that film. It’s been four decades since Love Story turned young love doomed by cancer into saccharine Hallmark hooey. I like that version as much as the next girl does.” But, she concludes, that’s not the truth. ”On the one hand, you can sugarcoat it - nothing is too messed up that it can’t be fixed with a Peter Gabriel song. ”I believe we have a choice in this world about how to tell sad stories,” she says. Or rather, what kind they’re not about to see. In the opening voice-over of the funny, sweet, three-hankie tearjerker The Fault in Our Stars, Shailene Woodley’s terminally ill 16-year-old Hazel Grace Lancaster tells the audience what kind of movie they’re about to see.
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