Jennifer Lawrence has tips for ‘Divergent’ star Shailene Woodley

LOS ANGELES, USA – After The Hunger Games, enter Divergent. 

The film, from the same studio that produced the Twliight and Hunger Games movies, is the latest teen adventure saga with a fearless female heroine battling the odds in a post-apocalyptic future. 

Relatively unknown Shailene Woodley – whose credits have so far come in smaller films like The Descendants and The Spectacular Now – said she asked Oscar-winning Hunger Games star Jennifer Lawrence for tips before her leap into the commercial big leagues.

“I sent her an email. I was just curious, she had gone from doing indie films to doing Hunger Games, which is a giant film obviously, and I wondered if it had changed her life in positive ways,” Woodley told reporters.

Lawrence’s reply? “She said, ‘Don’t do anything stupid. Don’t do drugs. Don’t make a sex tape. And don’t go to [grocery chain] Whole Foods the day the movie opens’,” said the 22-year-old actress.

Watch the trailer here: 

In Divergent, set in Chicago, society is divided 5 five factions: Abnegation for the selfless, Amity for the peaceful, Candor for the honest, Dauntless for the brave and Erudite for the knowledgeable.

At the age of 16, every adolescent must choose their faction for life, helped by a personality test. But Woodley’s character Tris turns out to be Divergent – a rare finding meaning she has the skills of several factions, not just one.

This makes her a danger for the established order, and a target for Jeanine (played by Kate Winslet), an Erudite leader seeking supreme power.

Divergent opens in the Philippines on March 20. – with reports from Romain Raynaldy/Agence France-Presse/Rappler.com