'It was very important to me to talk to a lot of people who were living with cancer or who had children, other family members, die of cancer,' said Green.

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He acknowledges the intelligence and vulnerability that stem from those beautiful years when we are, for the first time, discovering the world and. Woodley herself wrote the excerpt in the magazine to honor the author. The book and highly anticipated movie have become so important that Time magazine awarded Green the honor of being one of the 100 most influential figures in 2014. I certainly never imagined it would be a movie,” he told Entertainment Weekly. “I tried to write the funniest, most honest love story I could about these kids who were living with a difficult disease. Green, 36, who has written five books, got the inspiration for TFIOS after serving as a volunteer chaplain for young cancer patients in Chicago. But I cried every day because they were good every day! I got a lot of shit, because every time they called, ‘Cut!’ they would look over at me, and I would be crying. In fact, it was a joke on the movie that I cried every day. This set basically has no testosterone whatsoever.” Seeing the characters and dialogue he created was an emotional experience for Green and he couldn’t hold back the tears on set.īoone said, “John Green cries all the time. He even had a cameo, but it was cut from the film. This set was unique in that Green was there 80 percent of the time. Afraid that it would be made too superficially, he went so far as to ask his publisher not to send out advanced copies to movie studios.ĭirector Josh Boone invited Green on set, and typically authors stay for one of two days.

In the beginning, John Green, author of the novel the movie is based on, refused to adapt his work for Hollywood audiences. The Author Cried on Set…a LotĪuthor John Green center, with Ansel Elgort and Shailene Woodley ( Facebook) Let’s take a look at the movie that’s sure to warm and break our hearts. They meet in a support group, fall in love, and the rest makes literary and Hollywood history. Gus and Hazel, played by Ansel Elgort and Shailene Woodley, are living life to the fullest, even though they are both struggling teen cancer patients. The movie, based on the YA bestselling novel, takes the lovable characters that John Green created and gives them life on screen. The stars are aligned this summer as arguably the highest anticipated movie of the season, The Fault in Our Stars, graces theaters on June 6.

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