At 28, Shailene Woodley has asserted herself. She now refuses that the bosses of Hollywood studios dictate her choices.
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- Henry Arnaud, Los Angeles
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Surrounded by Nicole Kidman, Reese Witherspoon and Zoe Kravitz in particular, the American actress plays Jane, a young single mother who is at the heart of the plot of the series “Big Little Lies”. To see from August 25, 2020 on TF1.
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Without revealing the plot of the series, your character experiences a real secret trauma that he tries to overcome as the series progresses. What is your approach to this situation?
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Trauma is something individual, because no one reacts in the same way to a tragedy. The horror Jane experienced in “Big Little Lies” and the way this group of girls tries to deal with this secret is pretty exemplary of our society. We try to hide ctragedies instead of talking about it.
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Did playing a mother in the series make you want to have children?
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Not really. I love playing a mom in front of the cameras because there is one major advantage: the youngster who plays Ziggy returns to his real parents at the end of the day of filming.
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Jane is the only one who has to fight financially among this group of rich women. Did you also experience this?
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This is another problem in our societies: we want to get everything we don’t have. It is part of the conditioning of capitalist society and social networks do nothing to help. We see people who have wealth, youth, beauty and we want to be like them. AT 20 years, I was obsessed with the perception that people could have of me. The more the years go by, the more I detach myself from it.
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How is your self-confidence manifested?
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My way of dressing is the most concrete example. As a teenager, I loved hanging out in thrift stores then pulling out the sewing machine and remaking outfits to my size. I was trying to invent a style for myself. With success, the bosses of Hollywood studios started imposing stylists on me who made me wear designer dresses and changed my look with hairdressers and makeup artists. I had to assert myself two years ago by demanding to be the only one to choose. Today, what people think of me, I don’t care.
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