Actor Shailene Woodley has raised a few eyebrows with her latest Instagram post, a move that was either innocuous or a subtle signal that she’s moved to the right politically.
On July 15, the Divergent star reposted former first lady Melania Trump’s statement about the failed assassination of her husband on Instagram Stories. Obviously, everyone agrees political violence is bad, and if Woodley was just echoing Mrs. Trump’s call to not do that, then, fine.
But the choice to repost a statement from Team Trump, rather than write her own message of peace, raised eyebrows.
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The star has always been vocal about her politics. She loudly campaigned for Bernie Sanders and was arrested while protesting the Dakota Access Pipeline. She said she wasn’t a feminist, then she said she was (We all learn over time!).
According to Wikipedia, she went to the inaugural Women’s March, though I couldn’t find any evidence of her attending.
Shailene Woodley has also been, for lack of a better word, crunchy. Remember her thing about getting sun on your vagina? Most controversially, Woodley was engaged to former NFL player Aaron Rodgers at the height of the COVID vaccine debate, when Rodgers caught COVID and was exposed for lying about being vaccinated.
Woodley’s response was kind of all over the place, and anyway, then they broke up. Now fans think her reposting of Melania Trump feels…off.
Most of the replies to the news on X.co, are some version of “you starred in a movie about a dystopia, don’t do this.”
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But others pointed out that it might not be that serious, and maybe she’s just sympathetic to Melania in the wake of a shocking event.
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George Clooney, please weigh in.