NW: A lot of times you'll do a movie, and you'll be working with adults with families and kids and stuff. There's a level—you guys aren't going to be hanging out every second, you know? But with the three of us [me, Ansel, and Shailene Woodley], we just wanted to hang out with each other. Any time we weren't working, we were hanging, and that's great. It feels like you get on set and you're with your family.
Any favorite memories?
NW: Ansel and I had apartments right next to each other, so I would play him my new songs with my brother [Alex Wolff] because my brother would be sending me rough mixes of our songs from the studio. And Ansel would be playing different EDM tracks that he'd do, so we'd be going back and forth, which was fun and cool.
You're also going to be starring in another movie based on a John Green novel,* Paper Towns*. What can you tell us about that?
NW: When I was on set of Fault, Wyck Godfrey, the producer, said, "Hey, you should read Paper Towns!" So I read it, and I loved it. Four months later, I got a call asking "Hey, Nat, do you want to play Quentin?" Before he could finish the sentence, I was like, "Oh, yeah! Sure."
What attracted you to the role?
NW: Obviously, I adore that group of people. I love the screenwriters, and I love John Green, and I love Wyck. I loved the experience of Fault, so I wanted to do it again. But if it wasn't a great book or script, I wouldn't want to be a part of it—and it is a great part and a great, great book. It's made a really good script.
What's it like working with John?
NW: Great. When we're working together, he doesn't really tell me anything about my acting—and I don't tell him anything about his writing—but we've become really close friends.
How involved did he get?
NW: Oh, totally! He was there the entire time we were shooting. He's respectful of the movie-making process. He'd never even been on a movie set before, so he wasn't coming up to people and overloading them with notes. That's not his job; that's director Josh Boone's job. Instead, he would give us support. He was kind of—and I mean this in total respect because I think it's a great thing to have on set—he was kind of a cheerleader to the actors and the director and saying we were doing the right thing and a good job. That's great to have because there's so many things going on in a movie set, and actors get so insecure, so it's great to have somebody saying, "Look, this is exactly how I pictured it in my head. You guys are doing fine." Then we knew we'd be appeasing the fans of the book if he's happy.
