I'm waiting outside Shailene Woodley's hotel room when the 22-year-old figurehead of Young Adult cinema and soon-to-be Biggest Young Female Actor in Hollywood Except For Jennifer Lawrence bursts out unexpectedly. "Hi, how are you?" she chirrups, rushing past me in such a blur that I have to direct my answer ("Good, thanks!") at the back of her head. The cream-coloured shawl around her shoulders billows behind her like a cape before she ducks into a doorway and is gone. I can hear her talking on the phone a few rooms away, and then suddenly she is skipping back down the corridor at high speed. She screeches to a halt in front of me. "Hi, how are you?" she asks for a second time, adding an introduction "I'm Shai!" and clutching me in an embrace so that now my reply ("Good, thanks!") is delivered into her right shoulder.
My research tells me that the hug is her preferred greeting, so frankly I would have been chagrined not to have received one, but even so there is a disparity between that informal gesture and the businesslike briskness with which she conducts herself. It's probably just press-junket fatigue but this is one weary woman. Not that she looks a mess. Her chestnut hair is scraped back from a face which is small and soft as a pompom, the shawl covers a jazzy black-and-white blouse, and she is wearing imperious black boots over black leggings. But she yawns and rubs her face; her voice catches and cracks. Her accent lapses occasionally into Canadian, though she was born and raised in California. "For some reason I start saying 'aboot' when I've been talking all day," she laughs.
Source: http://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/apr/04/shailene-woodley-young-adult-badass-divergent
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