Nat Wolff‘s Isaac had to have one of his eyes removed due to a tumor, and throughout the course of the film, loses his sight completely. “Ansel really sold those shots with his performance.” Read more about the Fault visual effects here.ģ. “We used Ansel’s performance on set as the basis for how his prosthetic leg should be moving, and we used a young man who actually lost his leg as a double and for lighting reference,” said visual effects supervisor Jake Braver. Ansel Elgort‘s Augustus Waters had a type of bone cancer called osteosarcoma, but is in remission after having part of his leg amputated - a demanding special effect.

Read more about Woodley’s approach - plus the cast’s favorite lines from Green’s novel - here (and read why she isn’t wearing a sundress in Amsterdam here).Ģ. “I thought a lot about it, and after meeting with people who they themselves were stuck with an oxygen tank 24/7, I realize that if I were to actually breathe the way Hazel, if she were a real person, would breathe, it wouldn’t translate visually to the screen,” she said, shortening her breath while answering. Shailene Woodley‘s Hazel Grace Lancaster has thyroid cancer with metastasis forming in her lungs, which causes her to carry around an oxygen tank and wear a cannula, and occasionally she has trouble breathing.

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