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John Green is the “undisputed king of YA”, with an earnest following known as Nerdfighters. Doree Shafrir caught up with him on the set of The Fault in Our Stars, the film based on his best-selling novel of the same name, to talk about his relationship with fame and fandoms, writing realistic fiction and the translation from page to screen, a process he is closely involved with. He also explains how he came to write the story, which is partly inspired by the life of a young friend who died of cancer.
Explaining why he writes the way he does and what inspires him to be so open about his life, Green is very active on YouTube and Twitter, he says: “We’re super uncomfortable with sincerity as a culture. That ability to experience unironic enthusiasm, that ability to not have to couch your joy or your pain behind all of this protective irony, is something I really admire about people.”
The interview reveals Green’s journey from being a student chaplain in a children’s hospital to becoming one of the most important names in the young adult fiction category:
Every morning, they come: girls in Doc Martens boots and head scarves and bright pink hair, floral backpacks and hooded sweatshirts and Converse. They have figured out where the shoot’s locations are going to be via Twitter and Instagram, and they arrive on set in groups of two or three or more, radiating a sense of uncomplicated teenage girl-ness that is infectious, really — the way they stand off to the side with hopeful smiles on their faces on rainy Amsterdam streets, umbrellas in hand, quiet when shushed by a production assistant, necks craning to catch just a glimpse of their hero. Occasionally there is one, like the Emma Stone doppelgänger in front of the American Hotel on the Leideskade, who can’t contain herself and, upon spotting him, stares and stares until finally she begins inching toward where he is standing by the monitors, under a tarp, and is then shooed back by security.
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