Shailene Woodley is passionate about her beliefs, and unfortunately her five-year stint on The Secret Life of the American Teenager didn't align with her values.
"There were a lot of things that were written into the scripts that not just me, but a lot of the cast, disagreed with," Woodley told Bustle in 2020. "There were belief systems that were pushed that were different than my own. Yet legally I was stuck there. To this day it's one of the hardest things I've ever had to do."
It's an echo of the sentiment she told Flaunt in 2013.
"I'm extremely grateful for it... but towards the end, morally, the things that we were preaching on that show weren't really aligned with my own integrity," Woodley explained. "So that was a bit hard to show up to work every day knowing that we were going to project all of these themes to ... millions of young adults across the country, when ... they weren't what I would like to be sending out."
Secret Life followed the struggle of 15-year old Amy (Woodley) who becomes pregnant. Across the five seasons, other teen characters have children, and Cinema Blend noted that the show "promoted abstinence" as it went on. The finale ends with Amy leaving for college without her child. The divisive conclusion definitely split fans, and Woodley understandably is among those questioning the series. Seems like she's moved on though!
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