Shailene Woodley sheds good-girl image with 'White Bird in a Blizzard'

Liz Braun, QMI Agency Oct 21, 2014

, Last Updated: 3:29 PM ET

NEW YORK - Shailene Woodley is as steady-on as they come.

Woodley, 22, is indeed bright, beautiful and right on the cusp of famous, but no amount of tinseltown hoopla is going to get her to trade in her flannel shirt or abandon her earth-loving ideals. Environmentally aware, Woodley has often spoken about foraging, creating her own medicines and beauty products and fetching her own drinking water from the mountains. She doesn't wear her interests like a new overcoat, either the actress simply marches to a different drummer, and doesn't make a big deal about it.

She does hug you at first meeting, however, as rumoured.

Hippy-dippy though that may sound, it's a calming, positive gesture that makes a formal interview suddenly friendlier. Woodley is chatting about the advantages of buying vintage and used clothing and says she regrets that her second-hand rain boots are coming apart after four years of use.

"That's like wasting a good pair of shoes because one part's broken. That's a huge thing for me," she says.

"You know, we all have an abundance of s---," she adds, laughing.

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Woodley is promoting White Bird in a Blizzard, a new Gregg Araki movie that combines a coming-of-age story with a domestic mystery. Woodley plays Kat, a girl of 17 whose mother (Eva Green) simply vanishes one day. As she makes her way in the world, Kat believes she doesn't miss her mom, but she has disturbing dreams about her. The movie involves nudity and plenty of sex, and Woodley has been asked a lot about that in North America. "Where sexuality is so taboo."

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Shailene Woodley sheds good-girl image with 'White Bird in a Blizzard'