August 27, 2016 – Hollywood, California, U.S. – SHAILENE WOODLEY promotes ‘Snowden.’ Shailene Diann Woodley (born November 15, 1991)is an American actress. She first received attention as Amy on the ABC Family television series Secret Life of the American Teenager (2008–13) and rose to stardom in various popular and critically acclaimed films such as The Descendants (2011), The Spectacular Now (2013), The Fault in Our Stars (2014), The Divergent Series (2014–) as Beatrice ‘Tris’ Prior and Snowden (2016). For her work, she has garnered a Cannes Trophee Chopard, Sundance Film Festival Special Jury Prize for Dramatic Acting, Critics Choice Award, People’s Choice Award, Independent Spirit Award and was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture. Upcoming : Ascendant (TV Movie 2017), Big Little Lies (TV Series 2017), Adrift (announced). (Credit Image: © Armando Gallo via ZUMA Studio)
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On Music: Shailene Woodley- Music as Medicine

March 2, 2017
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Armando Gallo

The best selling novel Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty is now a seven episode HBO mini series written for TV by David E. Kelley and starring Reese Witherspoon, Nicole Kidman, Laura Dern and Shailene Woodley. Shailene plays Jane, the single mother of a sweet and smart son who gets accused of bullying on his first day of school. Director Jean Marc-Vallée is famous for playing music on the set, so we asked Shailene how important music is to her:

“It’s so important. To me, music is important for emotional scenes, and it’s really important for high vibe scenes, like jacked up scenes, where you are meant to have a lot of adrenaline and energy.  Music is sort of that medicine that allows you to get to a certain state of mind in two seconds that reality would normally take a lot longer.”