Shailene Woodley learned a lot about herself from her latest project.
He talks to PEOPLE at the New York premiere of his new series Three women on Monday, Sept. 9, the actress, 32, said she “learned a lot” about herself from her character Gio.
“Gia has this ability to be very open with her emotions in a way that I used to be more reserved,” Woodley tells PEOPLE. “It was fun to play with so much freedom in expression.”
Three women is based on Lisa Taddeo’s 2019 non-fiction book of the same name, which explores the personal lives of three women – Maggie, Sloane and Lina – with different backgrounds. In the series, Woodley portrays a fictionalized version of a real-life writer as she connects with women while working on a book about female sexuality.
The actress was inspired by Tadde, who worked on the show as creator and executive producer, calling her “a unicorn who is somehow able to be honest and true enough with herself about what she’s going through inside to then open up to the world to make us feel a little less isolated in our experiences.”
Shailene Woodley at the premiere of “Three Women” in New York on September 9, 2024.
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In a separate interview, the author shares with PEOPLE that Woodley had a lot of freedom while creating her character on the show. “From the beginning, I wanted Shailene to create her because I’m not the Queen of England or someone you need to emotionally correct. I wanted her to have some freedom to bring her performance to that character using my DNA and the DNA of the women who spoke to these other women,” he says. she.
Taddeo went on to call the actress “beyond talented,” adding that she “made me feel seen without mimicking or mirroring me, but just by being her and bringing her experience.”
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Shailene Woodley in “Three Women” on Starz.
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Overall, Woodley hopes the series will help people “feel a little less alone.” She says, “We feel like we have to hide who we are in order to be accepted. And the truth is… we really are much more fascinating, interesting and delicious than what we try to portray to the world. I hope people find comfort in their truth.”
The Secret Life of the American Teenager alum stars in Three women with Betty Gilpin, DeWanda Wise and Gabrielle Creevy.
In a recent interview with Bustle to promote her new show, Woodley was asked what made her tick “stop caring so much about performing for others,” to which she said, “A broken heart that healed and broke again. I kept falling in love with unavailability.”
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Shailene Woodley at the premiere of “Three Women” in New York on September 9, 2024.
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The actress didn’t name who broke her heart, though PEOPLE reported that she and her ex-fiancé Aaron Rodgers broke up in February 2022 after a year of dating — which would have happened during the show’s final stretch of production. The two briefly reconciled before splitting again in April 2022.
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Last year, Woodley in a conversation with Net-a-porterdigital title CARRIER.
“It was hard to shoot because I was going through the darkest, hardest time of my life; it was winter in New York and my personal life was s—ty, so I felt like a big bubble of pain for eight months,” she said. . “I was so grateful that I could at least go to work and cry and process my emotions through my character.”
Three women premieres Friday, September 13 on Starz.
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