Shailene Woodley on Working with Kate Winslet: "I would not be who I am today without her"

Oh, I've missed this woman so much. I've missed you too. What I didn't mention in the introduction was, I was lucky enough to work with her a few times, and I'll show a couple of samples of those get-togethers. That was a photo, I shot, so I was the photographer. Drew, this was one of the most fun photo shoots I've ever done. Oh my God, it was so, such a wonderful day, such a wonderful shoot. She shot that! Look at that, look at that shot, look how beautiful. Oh my gosh. That is. And getting to know you, and you ate a certain way when we would work together. You lived- I bring my little mason jars everywhere with me. You had a very specific, disciplined lifestyle, but that was also very natural to you. How do we be ourselves and not think about what other people's thoughts are about it? Well, when I was younger, it was easy, because all the people that I surrounded myself with were doing the same thing. I mean, I learned how to hunt at a young age, because I was like, if I'm going to eat meat, I want to know that I know what to do. And then I would do survival skills, because I was interested in the environment, and we'd go on these long camping trips. And then in my mid-20s, early to mid-20s, I started saying things publicly, and seeing what people were saying, and it did affect me, because I felt insecure. I felt like, oh no, did I do something wrong? Because I saw the world from a specific lens. I had a, I was talking to this really brilliant writer that I just had the opportunity to work with. We were talking about childhood trauma, and- One of my favorite subjects. Oh, we know something about this. Anyway, we were talking about, he was like, yeah, you know, it took me a while to realize my compass was just bent. And he's like, no matter how hard you try, how good of a person you are, the right decisions you're making, the things you're seeking, if you don't work at the foundation of who you are inside, your North Star is not really North, it's kind of East, or it's kind of West. So you think you're heading in the right direction, but your compass is just tweaked. And for me, it was such a profound way of articulating how I felt, which is going inside and going, oh, the foundation of myself is broken, because I don't like myself. Yes. I think I do, but I'm really mean. Yes. Like, I am mean. Yes. And then changing that and recalibrating that, where I'm like, oh, I actually, I think I'm pretty awesome. It's beautiful for me, again, working with you so young and seeing, no, truly, it's like, I've been blessed to have people at young age show up in a really real, truthful, pure way. Did Kate Winslet actually, was she someone who was like a good sounding board for you? I mean, Kate Winslet. I mean, you guys. She's so, not to overuse the word real, but she's just real. She is who she is, and she's not afraid to be who she is, and she's done the hard work. Oh my gosh. That's a great quote. I read a quote of hers recently that I really appreciated, which was, she said, I wish I had had the gumption and confidence that I have now as a woman, as a young girl when I came out in Titanic, and particularly men commented on my body shape and size, and how I would not have allowed that at all, and I would have shut it down right there and then, and I'm like, wow. But you know what's cool about that, is she maybe didn't do that for herself, but she did do it for me. She absolutely did. Because we worked together. I was 21. I had all the influx of public life, and being told you should look a certain way, or you should be a certain thing, or don't eat that, or do this, or dye your hair a different color. She absolutely sat me down, held my shoulders, did this, and was like, ah, ah, ah. No, no, no. That's not who you are. This is the truth. And she gave me that moment, and I would not be who I am today without her. Okay. So that's the most key. It's true. And it leads me into Three Women, which was such a big deal when it came out in the book. And it was, I'm not surprised it got immediately turned into a film, series, excuse me. Love. All the storylines so much. And this is a very sexy, sexual, I think it delves into your character needs to go and write about women's sexuality. And then you find these three great women with very diverse, complex things that they're dealing with, but all connected by sexuality. Yeah. It's- And it's juicy. We don't hide it. We, it's very open. Oh, she's sexy. I was super turned on a lot. And I was like, my libido was like, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding. I'm under the floorboards. Yeah, I'm here. Hello.