Acting is an escape for Shailene Woodley. In a January cowl story for Porter, the actor spoke about discovering refuge in her profession following her breakup from NFL participant Aaron Rodgers final 12 months. Woodley particularly used her function as Gia within the upcoming collection “Three Women” as an outlet. “I used to be so grateful that no less than I might go to work and cry and course of my feelings by means of my character,” she mentioned.
Though cathartic, Woodley’s expertise filming the tv adaptation wasn’t with out its challenges. “It was arduous to movie as a result of I used to be going by means of the darkest, hardest time in my life,” she mentioned. “It was winter in New York, and my private life was sh*tty, so it felt like an enormous ache bubble for eight months.” News of Woodley and Rodgers’s cut up broke after months of rumors that the couple had been on-and-off. What’s extra, the information got here a couple of 12 months after the 2 introduced their engagement in February 2021.
In the interview, Woodley additionally spoke in regards to the social-media consideration her personal life all of the sudden garnered. “It truthfully by no means actually hit me that thousands and thousands of individuals world wide have been truly watching this stuff and paid consideration to them,” she mentioned. “Then, I dated any individual in America who was very, very well-known.”
This in the end led Woodley to eradicating Instagram from her cellphone. “It was the primary time that I’d had a quote-unquote ‘well-known’ relationship, and I watched [the] scrutiny, opinions, the will for individuals to know my life and his life and our life,” she mentioned. “I’m a really personal particular person, and so I discovered that any time I posted something, I immediately felt like I used to be sharing an excessive amount of of who I’m with individuals I did not essentially belief.”
Now, Woodley mentioned she’s targeted on letting go of expectations and looking for the magic within the little moments. “I’ve all the time liked getting older, nevertheless it’s nearly like I really feel an exhale; I’ve been ready so lengthy to expertise not giving a f*ck about what different individuals take into consideration me and my life and the alternatives I make,” she mentioned. “I’m so excited to proceed letting go of so lots of the issues that managed me in my twenties; to essentially expertise the enjoyment of life in a manner that, once you’re youthful, is harder to expertise.”