Shailene Woodley has already starred in two of the year’s biggest films, “Divergent” and “The Fault in Our Stars,” but she could have been in a third.
The 22-year-old actress was set to portray Mary Jane Watson in this year’s “The Amazing Spider-Man 2,” but had her scenes cut from the final film.
“For a few hours it was literally like, ‘Oh, my God, was I awful? Why did they cut me? What are people going to think?'” Woodley said in the July issue of Vanity Fair.
As shocking as the move was at first, the “homeless” starlet said she soon realized things would be fine.
“I woke up the next morning and I was like, ‘O.K., it makes total sense,'” she continued. “I’m a pretty spiritual person, so I can just sit back and trust that everything happens for a reason, even if my ego doesn’t like it.”
In April, director Marc Webb said he’d cut Woodley’s scenes from the movie because he didn’t want to mess with the chemistry between Emma Stone‘s Gwen Stacy and Andrew Garfield‘s Peter Parker.
“The relationship between them [Peter and Gwen] is so sacred and so powerful, that it just didn’t feel right,” Webb told Movie.com at the time. “And it sucks because Shailene is such a f—king great actress and so cool and magical but it was just about having this obligation to this romance that I thought was sacred. It was just one of those things.”
Whatever the reason, Webb didn’t close the door on bringing Woodley back for a later chapter in the franchise, though Woodley may not be up for the role anymore.
“I don’t know anything,” she told Entertainment Weekly in January. “But seeing as how they picked up the next two ‘Divergent’ films, I don’t know how I would keep my sanity doing two big action films in one year. But anything can happen.”
Either way, the actress will probably be just fine. “The Fault in Our Stars” topped the box office last weekend, earning $48.2 million in its debut.