In today’s magazine beat: Zac Efron talks addiction, Ansel Elgort talks about his upcoming romantic teen cancer flick, Seth MacFarlance chooses not do meth, and Demi Lovato just wants to be somebody’s idol.
From Hollywood Reporter: “No matter who you are, you face challenges growing up,” he says. “You go with your things, you learn, you have to. It’s impossible to lead an honest and fulfilling life as a man and not make mistakes and ‘fess up to them when you need to. But it’s especially humiliating when they happen to be so public and so scrutinized.”
He pauses. “When you have success young, and you accept the good things, you have to accept all of it. You have to accept the moments of glory but also a great responsibility. And that responsibility, to some degree, involves being a role model. At the same time, I’m a human being, and I’ve made a lot of mistakes. I’ve learned from each one.”
“I’m grateful for every bit of that early success,” he adds. “It was hands down the most honest, carefree, passionate experience of my life. There were no expectations. [But later] I definitely felt that pressure. I’m not comfortable with it at all times. The people that I saw and the people that I started to meet, the majority were young. These were kids, and I looked into their eyes and I saw myself as a fan, and it was shocking to be on the other end of that. You just want to please every single one.”
He has joined Alcoholics Anonymous and also has been seeing a therapist. “I just started going,” he says. “And I think it’s changed my life. I’m much more comfortable in my own skin. Things are so much easier now.”
Still, he admits of his battle with addiction, “It’s a never-ending struggle.”
Ansel and Shailene talk to Time about The Fault in Our Stars:
“Ansel and I have an affinity for each other just as far as recognizing and admiring the spirits in one another,” Woodley says. “It was nice to do a movie like Fault, which does have so many vulnerable scenes with somebody I was already comfortable with.”
Elgort felt a significant connection to Augustus and it’s one that apparently resonated with the author himself. “John Green, after he saw the film, gave me a huge compliment,” Elgort says. “He said, ‘Your work as Augustus was so special because I had never thought about him that much. It’s from the point of view of Hazel in the story, so Augustus wasn’t as real of a person to me until I saw the film.’ Because now you’re watching a real person, you’re not just hearing Hazel’s thoughts about him. So it’s fresh whether you’ve read the book or not.”
Friends and colleagues say the filmmaker, who launched his first animated comedy series, Fox’s “Family Guy,” before his 25th birthday, is driven by an enviable mix of raw talent and restless curiosity that keeps him always looking for what’s next. That explains how he managed to write a novel based on the “Million Ways” screenplay in his spare time during the film shoot last summer in New Mexico.
“The book was partially something to do on the weekends, because there’s nothing to do in Santa Fe except meth, and I am too afraid to do meth,” MacFarlane says. Ballantine released the 211-page book in early March, ahead of the film’s May 30 opening.
Via Cosmopolitan: On inspiring young girls: “When I was younger, I needed someone in the spotlight to idolize, who stood for positivity and light and happiness, and wanted to change the world. And because I didn’t have that, I realized I want to do that, if only for my 12-year-old little sister.”
On keeping her bipolar disorder in check: “It’s a daily thing. I treat it with medication. Not everybody does that, but for me it works. That’s what works for me —
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