Ansel Elgort‘s view on love might be different than how a lot of other people view it.
The 25-year-old actor is opening up about how he has the desire to fall in love with more people than just his girlfriend, though he isn’t looking for an intimate relationship with others.
Ansel has been dating ballerina Violetta Komyshan since they met in high school back in 2012.
“It doesn’t need to be sexual. I could be done sexually with my girlfriend,” Ansel said in a new interview with The Times. “I think we’ve been pretty clear that I want to feel free to fall in love with people and that [option] should be open, but sexually it can be closed off.”
“I’m in love with a bunch of my male friends who I’m not interested in having sex with, so why can’t I put the desire to have sex with women aside and let myself have love with women? I love [Divergent and The Fault in Our Stars co-star] Shailene Woodley and we never had anything sexual and that was great. There will probably be some sort of chemical thing at some point that you can’t help, but you just have to be disciplined and not be a f—— … We’re primitive beings,” Ansel added.
“Critics are usually really great writers and they have to kind of choose a side,” Ansel stated in the video. “They decided that pointing out everything wrong with the film is the best way to write their reviews, their articles. They are all great articles, too. All the bad reviews are well written but there is a lot of good in the film, too.”
He continued, “The film does work and the people who see it enjoy it and are moved by it. The most important person it moved for me was my mother, and she’s not moved by all of my films. She really liked this one, which made me really like it, too.”
“So it’s still in theaters, take your mom,” Ansel added.
During his appearance on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, the 25-year-old actor opened up about how he learned he got the role from director Steven Spielberg himself, and even though he couldn’t tell anyone about it – he did call his parents.
“I called my mom and dad, and cried a little bit,” Ansel admitted.
Ansel also revealed that musicals are his “first love. I saw Oklahoma! when I was 4 and decided ‘that’s me, the guy with the lasso!’”
He’s also pictured below leaving Good Morning America earlier in the week.
Ansel Elgort hits the red carpet for the premiere of The Goldfinch on Sunday afternoon (September 8) at the Roy Thomson Hall in Toronto, Canada.
The 25-year-old actor looked sharp in a black suit as he attended the premiere alongside co-stars Finn Wolfhard, Oakes Fegley, and Nicole Kidman at TIFF.
The Goldfinch hits theaters on Friday, September 13th.
FYI: Ansel Elgort is wearing Celine. Nicole Kidman is wearing a Chanel outfit. Sarah Paulson is in a Prada dress, Brian Atwood shoes, and Beladora jewelry while carrying a Tyler Ellis bag. Finn Wolfhard is wearing Saint Laurent.
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Ansel Elgort says Baby Driver 2 has a script and a title!
The Divergent star told MTV News (via CinemaBlend) that he has read the whole script.
Ansel‘s Baby Driver was released in summer 2017, earning $226 million worldwide and making it director Edgar Wright‘s highest-earning movie at the box office.
“He has shared it with me,” Ansel said about Edgar‘s script. “Yes, I think it’s going to happen. I think there will be a Baby Driver 2. It has a different title, actually. You’re gonna have to have to ask Edgar that, though.”
“It is one of the ones that I might do a sequel to because I think there is somewhere more to go with it in terms of the characters, especially Baby,” Edgar said. “[With] most sequels, you have to contrive something so they go back to square one, unless there’s somewhere deeper for them to go. I think with Baby Driver there’s more that you can do in that realm, and I sort of have an idea that if you did another one you would subvert his involvement in the crime in a different way so he’s not kind of the apprentice anymore.”
Production on Baby Driver 2 is not likely to begin anytime soon, though, as Ansel Elgort is currently filming for West Side Story and will soon hit the promo trail for The Goldfinch. Edgar Wright is currently filming Last Night in Soho.
