Shailene Woodley is sharing some rare comments about her close friend Ansel Elgort.
If you didn’t know, the 34-year-old actress and the 32-year-old actor have been good friends for years and have worked together several times on The Fault in Our Stars and on the Divergent movies.
“Ansel Elgort is to this day one of my best friends,” Shailene shared with Variety. “I feel like he transcends the label of best friend. He is like family to me. I love him so, so deeply.”
Shailene and Ansel met while working on the first Divergent movie, which was released in 2014. They played siblings Tris and Caleb.
“When we were doing the first divergent movie, we really connected, and we became sort of instant siblings,” she recalled. “The dynamic between us is always very sweet, and it was very supportive, and he would come over to my house, and we would cook and just talk for hours after work.”
Then in The Fault in Our Stars, they played love interests Hazel and Gus.
“When I heard he was auditioning for Fault in Our Stars, I was like ‘Oh that’s sweet, but like obviously it’s never gonna happen because he’s my brother in Divergent, like there’s no world where [that happens].’ And then he was cast,” Shailene said. “You know, he’s kind of the only person on Earth who could’ve played Gus.”
The Emmy-nominated actress went on to say that her real-life connection with Ansel made their characters’ chemistry on screen stronger.
“I think actually what made our relationship in that movie as tender as it was and as truly like unconditionally loving as it was [because] Ansel and I do genuinely love one another,” Shailene explained. “It’s so rare that you get to see love explored without intimacy, and although there is intimacy between Hazel and Gus, the core of it is just unconditional love. It’s two people walking each other home. It’s two people who have a desire to only be supportive to one another, and make the other person feel a little less lonely in a chaotic world.”
She did admit though that it was “awkward” to film the intimate scenes with Ansel.
“Of course it was awkward when we had to do intimacy scenes together, cause I remember [us] laughing in between takes a little bit together,” Shailene said. “I know everything about you, that is so weird that we have to take our shirts off.”
If you didn’t see, Shailene is rumored to be dating a new co-star.
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