Ansel Elgort for the September 2015 Teen Vogue Issue

In a new released cover story for Teen Vogue, Ansel Elgort stars as the cover star for the September 2015 Issue. In the interview Teen Vogue released online, the Insurgent star talks about his music life and how he incorperates producing music with the time he has on his busy schedule during filming.

Read the interview down below, and look at the amazing behind the scenes photos from the photoshoot thanks to the cooperation from our good friends from Elgort_News. There is a also a behind the scenes video from the photoshoot which you may also check out:

Ansel Elgort: I love how you had no clue I was a DJ back then. When I went into the booth and started playing back-to-back, you were like, “What the hell? Why is he playing with us?”

Martin Garrix: That was an awesome night.

AE: We really became close after the first time you came over to my house in Brooklyn. We have a picture of it, all of us on the water, and I put my Knicks hat on you. That was the beginning of the friendship. We’ve been boys ever since. Then we played Pacha [a club in New York]. Oh, my God, that was epic.

MG: It was crazy. When did you start making music?

AE: My senior year of high school. I began DJing for fun. My friend taught me on a computer with Traktor DJ, and I would play for classmates at parties. But I really fell in love with dance music when I was 18. It took a year before I made anything I was really happy with.

MG: It took me four years, so it’s all good, Ansel.

AE: I was so bad. I called myself “Hanzolo,” but when I told a pal of mine at school, he was like, “Dude, that’s the stupidest name ever. You have to change that. Why don’t you just call yourself ‘Ansolo’?” And I was like, “Oh, word. That’s cooler.” Hanzolo just sounds stupid.

MG: Do you have time to produce music while shooting a film?

AE: I actually get into it more when I’m on set. Right now I’m filming Allegiant: Part 1 in Atlanta all week. I like to focus on it when I’m in the trailer waiting for my scenes.

MG: When you’re going on tour, do you find it hard to travel with just hand luggage?

AE: Everyone makes fun of me because I’ll go places with only a change of clothes and my computer. I even forgot to pack for the Oscars, and my friends thought that was so absurd. I put what I wanted to wear on my bed and didn’t remember to place it in my suitcase. I was in L.A. for four days, and every day leading up to the ceremony I wore the same thing, and I smelled so bad. One day we went hiking in the mountains, and I got so dirty. The day of the Oscars, I go from looking like a slob to wearing a gorgeous Prada suit. It’s like living in two different worlds. But I don’t care. I was fine! I would just go down to the hotel pool in my underwear. But it was nuts — only a year before, I’d been watching the awards show at a viewing party; then, all of a sudden, I’m there presenting an award. I brought my mom, and that was so special.

MG: Unbelievable. Do you have a big suitcase in Atlanta?

AE: No, I have a little one with a few changes of clothes. If I’m lucky, I can get someone to help me with laundry.

MG: You just filmed November Criminals. How was that?

AE: It was great. I worked 13-hour days and was in every scene. That was a really challenging role and, since it wasn’t a big- budget movie, we shot the entire film in 25 days. But I had the weekends off. I actually played Ultra in Miami during that time.

MG: Amazing. How did you have time to prepare your set?

AE: I was going into total overdrive, man. But it was incredible. I felt invincible because I would get up so early and go to sleep so late. All the scenes were really hard. It’s about a kid who is coping with his mom dying of a brain aneurysm and whose dad is a drunk. I love doing emotional work, like The Fault in Our Stars.

MG: I haven’t seen that movie, but I want to watch it with you.

New Insurgent Promotional Stills

Insurgent UK released five (5) new promotional stills from Insurgent, throughout the past couple of days. Featuring in these new stills is the badass looks of Tris and Four, Caleb Prior, and Jeanine Matthews. 

The effects added to the images are great, specially in Jeanine’s still due to her looking very Candor in black and white. 

FourTris 

Caleb Prior

Jeanine Matthews  

Tris Prior  

Tobias Eaton  

Which of the new five (5) stills do you prefer the most?  **cough cough FOUR

  

Ansel Elgort Talks About Shailene Woodley and Her Heroine Roll in Insurgent

In a new interview of Ansel Elgort for Lionsgate Unlocked, the actor talks about her co-star Shailene Woodley and her roll as a heroine in Insurgent. He admires the idea of how Shailene is the leading roll character in an action film, compared to a male character having the leading roll, demonstrating his side of feminism.

Watch the interview below, and admire the brilliant words Ansel has to say about Shailene:

“The Divergent Series: Insurgent” Blu-Ray DVD + SPECIAL Video from VidCon Sizzle

“The Divergent Series: Insurgent” has got everything that an action pack movie needs to be enjoyed! It has action pack moves, drama, villains upon villains, hot and trendy actors **cough cough Theo James, and the CGI plus Greenscreen perfection put to the best. 

I have had the lucky chance from the many fansites to review the special features that will be included in “The Divergent Series: Insurgent 3D Blu-Ray DVD Combo Pack and Blu-Ray DVD. The special features include nine (9) extra videos of the Producers, cast members, and crew workers from Insurgent discussing the making of the film while jotting it all down in order to the film itself. In the special features, they mainly focused a lot on the factions and their leaders and how the factions work. They also covered an abundace about the simulation scenes that took place in Erudite. All of the VFX (special effects) and Greenscreens where at a great play for Insurgent. 

From using empty parking lot spaces as the factionless home and center, to having a circus trapeze as a stunt double for Shailene Woodley, the special features are the ones to watch. 

One of the two main highlights from the special features is the final statement from one of the producers of Insurgent, Pouya Shahbazian as he states:

In the next films, we are also going to divulge all of the sequence behind this city and how the world of Divergent came to be. Why is Chicago in such a decrypted state? What happened outside the walls? What kind of war was there? And how did the leaders of this society build the faction system, why did they build the faction system? We are gonna ask those questions in a very provocative light, and Tris and Four are gonna lead other people to safety and to their own stable place in the society, but Evelyn is at that top of the power structure and she will betrander as much power as she can.  

about Allegiant Part 1. Is this a sneak preview of what we can expect? As readers of the trilogy, we know why to expect from the book side of the story. But due to the change Insurgent was from the book, we can’t be so accurate what will be in stock for us on March 18th of 2016 when Allegiant Part 1 comes out. 

The second most outstanding highlight from the special features, was the image point of view the screenplay drawers had in mind about the train fight scene. In one of the special features; Train Fighting Scene, the talented drawing crew made a manip of what the train scene with the characters would be pictured when filming. As we all know, one of the characters who did not make it into Insurgent but had a little snippet of celebrity flash in Divergent was Edward. Edward was replaced by the character Edgar in Insurgent, who is played by Jonny Weston. The instant the special features demonstrated the manip the drawing crew had originally had planned as putting, it made me question what they where thinking and if they read the book Insurgent.  

Image from Lionsgate and Summit Entertaintment

 The eye patch pretty much gave it away, instantly. What do you Initiates think? Maybe they had original plans on casting an Edward but changed it the last minute? 

If you haven’t done so already, you have the various options to pre-order “The Divergent Series: Insurgent”. Go to www.owninsurgent.com to pick your option. 

With a special video, posted by Lionsgate Unlocked, we get a glance of the special features and what you will be missing out on if you don’t purchase your own copy! This video was aired last week at VidCon Sizzlez Pre-order now Initiates!

“The Divergent Series: Insurgent” – From The Book To The Movie

Lionsgate Unlocked just released a new video, from the behind the scenes and special feature videos that wil be included in the Insurgent DVD, which will be available on August 4th.

In this video, the producers and some cast members, including Veronida Roth talk about the adaptation of the film from the book. Having the help of Veronica Roth on the set, was a major change. Producer Pouya Shahbazian, describes 

the Insurgent book is a very difficult one to adapt into a film.

Watch the two minute special featured video down below: