A few weeks ago, I covered Shailene Woodley’s July Vanity Fair cover. It was a good moment for Shailene to cover the magazine as leader of “Hollywood’s next wave” because she’d just beaten Tom Cruise at the box office. Shailene gave it her all in the shoot, but VF did a poor job of photoediting. She looked like one of VF’s retro “Vanities” girls, and that doesn’t fit Shai’s vibe. The interview was odd with Shailene going off on a tangent about fracking and Russia and G.M.O.s before concluding how the big issues were a pain: “Maybe the only thing that I’m supposed to do is just show up and be me in every moment.” Because kindness will heal the world’s bigger issues. Bless her.

Vanity Fair kept part of the interview under wraps, which is a smart move for the online edition. Shailene and an editor (Krista Smith) went on a hike together. Shailene spent the whole time pointing out edible plants and picking up trash. She said a lot of stuff too. Shai talked about how George Clooney liked hanging out with the truck drivers more than the rest of The Descendants cast. These aren’t all of the excerpts, just the ones I found amusing. Starting with this discussion of how granola girls aren’t necessarily potheads:

She loves the Earth but isn’t a pothead: “I actually went on a hike the other day with somebody that I had just recently met, and we were talking, and he was like, so you smoke a lot of hash, smoke a lot of pot? And I was like, what? . . . No, actually. And he’s like, no? And I was like, no. And he goes, that’s so funny.”

Her haircut: “When I first cut my hair and I had lost a lot of weight, or not a lot of weight, but I had lost whatever muscle I gained on Divergent to do Fault, and I had a beanie on, and somebody goes, ‘Are you O.K.?’ And I was like, ‘Yeah, why?’ He goes, ‘Oh, I’m sorry. I thought you were sick.’ It was an interesting, disarming feeling of, like, really being in somebody’s shoes who might be sick.”

Has fame changed her? “It hit me one day when I was doing the red carpet, and they were like, ‘Well, how has your life changed now that you’re, like, red-carpet glam.’ And I thought about it, and I was like, ‘I’m going to go home and I’m going to take my dress off and I’m going to give it back to who loaned it to me, and then I’m going to make dinner, and then I’m going to go to bed because I have to get up again at six A.M. to do work.”

Fandom is weird: “The whole fan thing is very strange to me, because I’ve never had anybody that I have gone crazy for, like whether it was an actor or a musician. And so it’s a weird thing for me to relate to, especially the screaming sort of young fandom, the Twilight, Hunger Games, Divergent world caters to. So I kind of actually try to like actively remove myself from the situation. There’s this idea that actors and that musicians or models or whatever are better than the fans, and the fans look up to them because they’re an actor. People that I look up to in life are people who make a difference, and brave, strong women.”

Connecting with fans: “I’ve met people where I’m like, ‘Hi, I’m Shai, and they can’t even see me because they’re screaming, and I’m making eye contact with them, but they’re not there.’ And that, to me, is weird. So I don’t know how quite to do that except remove myself from the situation and live my life, and if that inspires people, then I guess that’s what a role model is.”

Kate Winslet, badass: “She talks about sh-t, and she’s not afraid to be like, ‘Yeah, this is what my body looks like. So what?’ That’s the badass mothaf—a who is who she is. Like first time you meet, just a hug. And she loves to be on a movie set, and I’ve worked with some actors who don’t, and it’s–you’re like, why are you acting? It makes no sense. Her trailer is bigger than everyone else’s, and she literally was like, ‘I am mortified and never went in it.’ She’s like, ‘P.S., in my contract it wasn’t like that and they did it anyway.'”

Seriously call her, Stevie Nicks: “Her music has sort of been throughout my entire life. [Fleetwood Mac] was always a part of something I listened to. And I also just love sort of who she is and that there’s no one in the world like Stevie Nicks. She was never the next anything. She was the first and only Stevie Nicks, and she was brave and she was strong, and she was her, no matter what that meant. She was her.”

Shai’s personal connection to Kirsten Dunst: “Some of my best friends live in Maine, and they knew Kirsten Dunst and her ex-boyfriend. The funny thing about Kirsten is that I’ve met her like once or twice at some, you know, event or something, but she has been to my friends’ homes in Maine, who live completely off the grid and who know very few people in the world, because they live off the grid. So the fact that she knows them too. And then she’s really big into like spring water, which I was really big into. And then I played Mary Jane after her. I think we’d have total fun together.”

[From Vanity Fair]

The girl can talk! There’s so much to, like, dissect here. Such as … what on earth is Shailene talking about when she namedrops Kirsten Dunst? Shailene claims to have never been a big fan of anyone, but she’s fangirling on Kiki. They have common friends who live “off the grid” — how is that possible in the world of online banking? They’re both “really big into like spring water.” Yep, those things sound like an excellent basis for lifelong friendship. Your move, Kiki Dunst.

Shai also clearly adores Stevie Nicks and wants to play her in a film. She already hinted to Women’s Health about how Stevie’s been her idol forever. Now Shai’s gushing that Stevie “was the first and only Stevie Nicks.” Is the world clamoring for a Fleetwood Mac biopic? All I know is that Shai claims not to smoke pot, but she’s on some good stuff. Maybe I should drink spring water too. And pray to the giardia nymphs.

Photos courtesy of Vanity Fair & WENN