Shailene Woodley talks Divergent at Sundance

Josh Horowitz from MTV News caught up with Shailene Woodley at the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, where she was promoting her new film The Spectacular Now, and got the first big interview about her involvement in Divergent!

Click the photo to see Shailene explain why she decided to take on Divergent:

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On why she loved Divergent:
“It’s very metaphorical for things that are going on today, specifically things that I’m passionate about and things that I want to make public and things that I want to educate people on, so I think it’s a really great platform not only artistic, but also on a human level…”

But why she also had her concerns before taking the project:
“I’ve been acting for 16 years and it was never something that I wanted to do, to be in a big blockbuster film, especially one that was similar to ‘The Hunger Games’ or ‘Twilight’.” (in the sense that they’re big blockbuster films)