Shailene Woodley is as anointed a young Hollywood star as can be—she’s heading up a successful franchise (Divergent), smashed the box office with a tear-jerky teen rom-com (The Fault in Our Stars), and even has a co-starring role with Clooney under her belt (The Descendents). She’s clearly very talented, but one thing people tend to fixate upon is that she is somewhat… atypical for a young Hollywood star.
Shailene Woodley is not fun-n-relatable, the way people perceive Jennifer Lawrence to be, nor is she sullen-n-soulful, like Kristen Stewart (these three compose the “triumvirate,” according to this confusingly-written graf of Woodley’s Elle cover). No, Shailene Woodley is an anomaly in Hollywood cause she’s a big ole hippie who literally eats dirt. And fittingly, she has an alleged boyfriend whose views are perfectly aligned with her dirt-eating ways.
(To be fair: Shailene Woodley actually eats clay, and makes a somewhat convincing argument for its cleansing properties, but it’s more fun to say she eats dirt because of the hard syllables. Dirt. Dirt dirt. Dirt dirt dirt dirt dirtdirtdirtdirt.)
Shai, to Elle:
“I’m all-loving,” she says. “I fall in love with people based on who they are. “I never want to love like this”—Woodley holds her arms outstretched, as if to envelop you—”I always want to love like this.” She thrusts her arms behind her back, pressing her chest forward. “Heart centered, like, ‘This is who I am! And I love you if you love me for who this person is. And if not, I’ll still love you, but I ain’t fallin’ in love with you!'” Happily she carries on with what could seriously be the best personal ad ever—feel free to steal it: “When you’re truly in love, for me, it’s…you’re my lighthouse! You’re somebody who holds me high, keeps me safe, you’ve got my fuckin’ back…. You also love me whole, wild, and free. You let me do me, and I’m gonna let you do you! And I’ll be the home that you return to.” Is she currently in love? Woodley smiles…
Isn’t our cover subject just so mysterious and coy? Shai’s actual quotes, though, are quite mature and full of self-love—and as the New York Daily News points out, Nahko Bear, the man she’s been allegedly linked to since November, “seems to fit the bill when it comes to Woodley’s carefree, love-for-all approach to life.”
Let’s take a gander at the dude rumored to be tossing back Shai’s cakes, shall we?
Nahko Bear, who is of Puerto Rican, Apache, and Filipino descent, grew up in Oregon but now lives in Hawaii. As the leader of the jam band Nahko and Medicine for the People, he plays a style of music that is familiar to anyone who has ever lived in Oregon: super uplifting, slightly stoney, folk-rooted, post-Dave Matthews rock and roll, with spiritual dabblings. The band’s latest video, for the song “Black as Night,” features a melange of people holding up cardboard signs with a positive Sharpie’d message featuring the song’s linchpin lyric: “I Believe in the Good Things Coming.”
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