Fri, 10 May 2013 at 5:20 pm

Ansel Elgort: 'Fault in Our Stars' Male Lead!

Ansel Elgort: 'Fault in Our Stars' Male Lead!

Ansel Elgort is set to re-team with Shailene Woodley as he has been offered the role of Augustus Waters in the highly anticipated film The Fault in Our Stars, according to Entertainment Weekly.

The 19-year-old actor is currently filming the dystopian flick Divergent with Shailene as a brother-sister pair.

“Ansel is whip-smart and uber-charismatic and everything I dreamed for Augustus Waters,” the novel’s author John Green told EW. “I am by nature a cautious pessimist, but I’ll just say it: Now that we have Shailene and Ansel, I am completely, unreservedly psyched about this movie.”

“Ansel Elgort is the epitome of the boy John Green brought to life so vividly in his novel and he truly embodies the character traits we admire so much about Gus,” director Josh Boone added. “His humor, sensitivity, honesty and confidence floored us. Watching him with Shailene was like seeing the film for the first time. Hearing then say okay to each other was incredibly moving. We couldn’t be more thrilled to have found our Gus.”

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