Videos/Interviews With Theo James

A selection of old interviews we found with Theo James in our bid to learn ALL THE THINGS about him.

VIDEO: Veronica Roth Talks 'Four' + The Chemistry Between Theo & Shailene

Veronica Roth attended the LA Times Festival of Books recently, and spoke to a fan about what she thought after watching the screen test of Shailene Woodley & Theo James for Divergent:

"He's super nice. He's really good as Four, so good. In the screen test, after I saw the two of them together, I was like *fans her face* He's definitely the right choice."

Sources: Picture: @IAmDivergent | Video

Construction Work On The Divergent Set - Wells St (April 21-29)

A look at some of the construction work this week on one of the Divergent sets in Chicago! Cant wait to find out what this is for. Stay up to date with pictures by following us on twitter. More pics after the jump.

FAN PICTURES: Theo James Spotted At Chicago Airport

A lucky fan spotted Theo James at Chicago Airport today! Click pictures for full size.

Manic Heart on Twitter: OMG OMG OMG if that wasn't #TheoJames from @GoldenBoyCBS then his freaking twin is in Chicago and I think on my flight to LA. AHHHHHH
And I love him even more 😍😍😍😍 haven't even made it to Hawaii yet and my life has been made #TheoJames

SET PICTURES: Divergent Filming At Navy Pier - Ferris Wheel + Capture The Flag (April 25/27)

Woah! Check it out! We have a glimpse of extras filming 'Capture the Flag! Looks like the costumes have blue lights built into the chest pieces. Filming at Navy Pier has been taking place over the last few days. This also means the ferris wheel scene!! If you look closely at the below pictures, you can make out the distressed effect added to the wheel and other parts of the pier. (continued)

FIRST MOVIE STILL: Shailene Woodley Faces Knives in Divergent!

From EW:  Divergent, the highly anticipated adaptation of the first book in Veronica Roth’s best-selling YA series, only recently began filming on location in Chicago. But Shailene Woodley, who stars as heroine Beatrice “Tris” Prior, tells EW that the younger members of the Neil Burger-directed movie — which includes Ashley Judd, Kate Winslet, Theo James and Zoë Kravitz — have already clicked.

 “It’s a good group,” she says. “We’re hanging out on weekends, celebrating birthdays. Everyone just wants to get to know one another. It’s rare to get a big group together and not have any conflicts. It’s really kind of amazing.”

Divergent takes place in a dystopian future where society is divided up into five factions. In this exclusive photograph, Tris is taking the place of a fellow Dauntless initiate, and must stand still while knives are thrown at her head.

“It’s about being selfless and standing up for what’s right,” Woodley says.
But don’t worry about those knives: “They’re just rubber,” she says.

Veroinca Roth On Her Visit To The Divergent Set + 'Uriah' Thoughts

Veronica Roth visits the Divergent set! We've seen some pictures recently of Veronica with the cast on set, here she gives us a glimpse into the the experience, and includes some thoughts on the news about Uriah not being cast until Insurgent movie.

From Veronica Roth: Full disclosure: as our car approached the set, I turned to my husband and said, "I feel like I'm going to throw up." I mean, I spend most of my time in front of a screen. Set visits to the movie adaptation of the words I scrawled over winter break three years ago were never something I was anticipating. 

On the way there, I felt totally unprepared for what was coming, and that meant a little bit of nausea.

Spoiler alert: I didn't throw up. Instead, I calmed down, which is better.
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Here's the deal: I want your first experience with this stuff, in all its detail, to be as amazing as mine was, so I'm not going to try to capture it all for you here. I'm just going to tell you, generally, what I did and how I reacted to everything. Okay? Okay. (continued)

Theo James Feature in 'Watch' Magazine (April 2013)

Theo James (Four) is featured in this months issue of CBS Watch magazine (volume 8, issue 2). In the article he talks about what he wears for big events such as premieres. “I’m a big Tom Ford guy. I wore one of his suits a couple of years ago and I’ve been addicted ever since.” He also talks about getting ready for a night out “I like to get ready with someone else,” he says “put some music on, and start drinking while I get dressed.”

Via DivergentFansUK

Divergent Character 'Uriah' Wont Be Cast Until Movie #2

It began as rumour.. but we're sad to say it has turned out to be true.

While it's disappointing, it does sound like they're dedicated to fully develop his character properly in 'Insurgent'. A few actors had previously read for the part of Uriah which made this news even more surprising, so I wonder whether they didn't find anyone good enough for the role, and didn't want to be forced to cast someone who wasn't exactly right. Better to have the perfect Uriah for movie 2 than a lame Uriah we wouldn't have been happy with, right?

Divergent Examiner got confirmation today: "As a lot of "Divergent" fans have noticed, one book-based character which has not yet been cast for the film adaptation is Uriah, the Dauntless-born initiate who buddies up with Tris throughout the faction initiation process.

An anonymous source close to the situation exclusively reports today that they will be reserving the character for movie two, "Insurgent" - if and when the second installment is given the greenlight - so as to more properly introduce and represent the character on-screen.
While Uriah does appear in the first book of Veronica Roth's "Divergent Trilogy," the character's arcs are much more developed and central in the second installment.

Since the start of production, fans have been speculating that this decision might be the case."

Production on "Divergent" is currently underway in Chicago, Illinois.

Veroinca Announces the Title of Divergent Book 3: ALLEGIANT

The title of the third and final book in the Divergent trilogy was announced today by Veronica Roth on USA Today! Fans were gathered anxiously together (well online anyway) for the information we've been trying to guess for months. and here it is: ALLEGIANT. 

Not what you were expecting huh! No -gent ending! And yet it still fits with the previous two titles. Well played Veronica! We think this is a great, exciting title. Now we can start specualting on the meaning behind it..

Veronica Roth Talks About Her Personal Experience of Writing Divergent Book 3

From Veronica: (You can read the full entry on her blog here) 

 

"With this last book I got the gift of time, a full year and a half to make it happen. And about halfway through the process, I realized that time was making it possible for me to love what I was doing while I was doing it, instead of just running toward a deadline as fast as I could. The time let the book steep in me, so to speak, building strength, and even now that I have been through several rounds of revisions I'm ready, even excited, to read through it again. (It helps that this time it's copyedits, my favorite things.)

 

I'm not here to discuss the book itself, or build it up, or dramatize it-- it will be a creative failure in some ways and a creative success in others and that's just the way books work. But what I'm talking about, here, is the one area in which this work will never be a failure: the process. In the process, I was open to criticism but I still knew what was important to me; I worked at a steady pace and I stopped when I needed some time to think; I let myself rest and I made myself work; and I loved it, and I did it every day.

 

Tony Goldwyn (Andrew Prior) Appears on the Ellen Show (April 16)

CASTING NEWS: Natalie & Andrew Prior

The final members of the prior family have been cast!

Safe to say we're very happy with these two quality actors joining our cast!

From EW.com: Here’s another (and probably the last) big piece of the Divergent casting puzzle:
EW has learned that Tony Goldwyn has joined the Divergent team playing the role of Andrew Prior, father to heroine Beatrice Prior, portrayed by Shailene Woodley.
The Scandal actor (who plays President Fitzgerald Grant on the ABC show), 52, joins Ashley Judd—who recently was cast as onscreen wife, Natalie Prior — Kate Winslet, Jai Courtney, Theo James, Zoë Kravitz, Maggie Q, Mekhi Phifer, and Ansel Elgort.

FIRST SIGHTING: The Divergent Cast Spotted Together!

ChicagoTribune reports: The stars of “Divergent” took a break from factional feuding in the post-apocalyptic sci-fi film currently shooting in Chicago to have dinner together Sunday at Girl and the Goat in the West Loop.
Shailene Woodley, whose character leaves the “faction” she was born into for another (in the story, society is divided into five different factions), was joined at the restaurant by Miles Teller, her jealous rival in the film, and co-stars Zoe Kravitz, Theo James, Jai Courtney, Ben Lamb, Ben Lloyd Hughes, Christian Madsen (son of Chicago native Michael Madsen) and Chicago actress Amy Newbold.
Kate Winslet, Mekhi Phifer and recent addition Ashley Judd also star in the movie but were not on hand for the cast dinner.

FAN PICTURE: Fan Meets Divergent's 'Al' in Chicago

"@cassg13: Thank you so much for meeting me yesterday. It was so amazing. @cmadsen8"

New Pictures: Veronica Roth with Divergent Cast Members 'Peter' & 'Al'

Veronica Roth has been visiting the set of Divergent and spending time with the cast. Pictured above with Miles and Christian in the now infamous 'picture coat', used to hide their costumes.

From Miles Teller:

@Miles_Teller: Me & @VeronicaRoth chattin "Peter" and all things #Divergent

@VeronicaRoth: @Miles_Teller The picture coat! (Great meeting you today.)

From Amy Newbold:

@newbieames: @VeronicaRoth, thanks for the visit! What a treat to learn the creator of this world is such a cool, fun lady! #Divergent 

@VeroincaRoth: @newbieames It was so nice to meet you (and compare heights with you, haha)! Stay warm!

From Christian Madsen:  

@VeronicaRoth great meeting you. Thanks for the kind words. #picturejacket

VIDEO: Aaron Eckhart Talks About 'Divergent'

Aaron Eckhart Interview from the Olympus Has Fallen European Premiere.
Aaron talks Divergent at the 2:40 mark. Basically he can't confirm anything about it but does hint at his involvement.

Source: DivergentFans

CASTING NEWS: Marcus Eaton, Molly, & Max Cast + Filming Begins

 

The Divergent movie twitter officially announced Ray Stevenson (Dexter) will be playing Marcus Eaton, the father of Tobias in Divergent,  Mekhi Phifer (E.R) will be playing Max, the Dauntless leader, and Amy C. Newbold will be playing Dauntless initiate Molly.

Ray had been rumored for a while, (as had Molly and he has mentioned being involved with project berfore, but we're happy its now all official.

It was also announced that filming has officially BEGUN! 

Veronica Roth on" Marcus & Max: I'm pretty excited! I think Ray and Mekhi are spot on, great matches for the Marcus and Max in my head. Also, yes, shooting did in fact BEGIN TODAY.
It still seems so unreal to me that any of this is happening."

Veronica Roth on Molly: "My fellow Chicagoan, Amy Newbold, was also cast as Molly, Tris's fellow initiate and nemesis (which you may already know, but what you may not know yet is that she is awesome!)."

VIDEO: Ray Stevenson Talks About the 'Divergent' Movie

Ray Stevenson talks about his next project 'Divergent' during an interview at the G.I. Joe: Retaliation UK premiere back in March. We knew Ray was attached, but we're still none the wiser about which role he'll be playing! Even so, its great to hear the movie being talked about as production develops.

Divergent Movie Location Pictures (April 5)

    

 Here are some pictures of one of the locations for the Divergent movie! I wonder which set this will turn out to be. (continued)

Divergent cast Updates From Twitter

In case you're not much of a a twitter-er and dont already know, we're lucky enough to get the odd update, picture, or random musing from a cast member or two. And I'm happy to say they have a great sense of humour! Below is 'Caleb' and 'Peter' doing their Divergent homework.

VIDEO: Interview With Theo James (Four/Tobias)

Theo James stops by the Young Hollywood Studio to trade some accent secrets and dish about the police ride-alongs he experienced..

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