Shailene is gracing the cover of another high profile magazine, this time the April edition of Teen Vogue. The photoshoot was taken at Caroline Gardens Chapel in London during her trip in November last year. An excerpt from the cover story can be found below, so be sure to take a read. The cover hits newsstands on March 25. We’ll provide further coverage once it becomes available.

We often forget about the importance of being earnest. For a young actress in Hollywood, it’s certainly a rare quality. There’s outspoken and brassy, à la Jennifer Lawrence—and we love her for it—but preaching your principles and holding on to them are entirely different. Shailene Woodley is indeed a rarity: a 22-year-old whose passion isn’t infused with sass. It’s full of hippie love, for her friends, her films, nature, George Clooney…. She’s definitely not the one who yells across a room, and it’s the content of what she says, not the volume, that makes her unique. She is Hollywood’s rebel, as we say on the cover, but not a deliberate one.

We’re sitting in the back room of Akasha, a café in Culver City, California, having breakfast. Shailene, glowingly makeup-free and Cali-casual in a nondescript gray sweater and beanie, has just come from seeing Divergent for the first time. A dystopian tale of a world where people are sorted into factions according to their personality traits, the film is based on the best-selling young-adult novel by Veronica Roth. It’s the first in a trio of books being hailed as “the next Hunger Games,” a moniker that has caused many other recent movies—Beautiful Creatures, The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones, Ender’s Game—to falter under the great weight of expectations. But this one is shaping up to be epic. In it, Shailene stars—alongside Kate Winslet, Zoë Kravitz, Miles Teller, Ansel Elgort, and Theo James—as Beatrice “Tris” Prior, a strong-willed, opinionated heroine who, like the actress herself, doesn’t fit into any predefined category.

Even though she saw only a rough cut of the movie, Shailene seems impressed. “It was pretty wild,” she says, absentmindedly tugging at her collar to reveal the fading image of three ravens—Tris’s tattoo in Divergent—on her clavicle, courtesy of recent reshoots. “Doing an action movie is completely different from one based in reality. It’s much harder to act with a green screen than with another human being. There are so many special effects in this film, so it was really amazing to see how they turned out.”

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