Gus, once a talented basketball player, may have lost a leg to cancer, but he didn’t lose his charm.Ī courtship begins and, for Hazel, so does an internal struggle. After the support group, he doesn’t just ask her out, he tells Hazel she’s beautiful. Gus can’t take his eyes off of Hazel, and he doesn’t care if she knows it. It’s here Hazel meets the confident, cocky, handsome Augustus Waters (Ansel Elgort). The group’s led by Patrick: a guitar-playing, Jesus-loving, cancer survivor whose overzealous empathetic nature is grist for Hazel’s perfectly-pitched snark. Hazel’s parents encourage her to attend a cancer support group in a church basement. The condition has left her lungs weak to the point she can’t exist without the aid of an oxygen tank. Here, the star of the Divergent franchise plays Hazel Grace Lancaster, a 16-year-old who’s had cancer most of her life, cancer that will likely soon claim her life. She isn’t just blazing a trail, this young woman is scorching the earth, and her sublime film acting talents are on full display in The Fault in Our Stars. Shailene Woodley is the second coming of absolutely nobody.

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