It’s always something to hear a over-privileged millennial actress complain about how hard it is to live in America.
But the politically charged actress Shailene Woodley didn’t mince her words in an interview with New York Magazine’s Vulture. In the standard attempt to promote her new film to a woke audience (after all, progressives are the ones Hollywood wants to entertain), she talked about her experience getting arrested for protesting the Dakota Pipeline, her year spent on probation, and her politics. Woodley told interviewer Amy Nicholson, “It’s tricky to live in America right now.”
Oh please. Is that $1.3 million paycheck from your hit HBO show weighing you down? Or maybe it’s that your former boss Bernie Sanders didn’t win his presidential bid. Either way, sure must be tough dealing with all that oppression.
But the progressive movement, though. She launched into her sales pitch for far left-wing people to run for office -- she’s thinking of doing it too! -- complete with motivational talking points. “It’s an exciting time for progressives anywhere to run for office,” she said. “Ultimately, our government works for the people -- as much as we pretend that they don’t, they really do -- and we have the power to change everything….We, the People are the ones to make a difference.”
Don’t forget that key word for a Hollywood actress--feminist. Woodley “can call herself a feminist all day long.” Even though a few years back, the Divergent actress told Time that she wasn’t a feminist, “because I love men.” Interestingly enough, the public outcry against her denouncement was apparently strong enough for her to take it back...since, after all, that statement was made “in a different time of feminism.”
