Hazel Grace Lancaster

character · in 17 videos (2011–2013)

Mentions by year: 2011: 5 · 2012: 4 · 2013: 8

Threads

• The Fault in Our Stars: writing, title and publication (2011) — stage, milestone, 2011–2013
• The Fault in Our Stars film adaptation (2012) — stage, milestone, 2012–2013

What the videos say

2011

• 2011-03-10 · DANDY LIONS! It's Question Day — John confirms the novel is narrated by a girl, Hazel. (00:01:07)
• 2011-06-06 · Men Running on Tanks and the Truth about Book Editors — John reads from Julie's editorial letter on his new book, which raises Augustus's philosophy against Hazel's, the nobility of sacrifice versus illness, and what constitutes martyrdom. (00:02:04)
• 2011-10-28 · Reading Chapter One of The Fault in Our Stars — Augustus tells Hazel she is beautiful, likens her to V for Vendetta-era Natalie Portman and invites her to watch the film at his house. (00:20:54)
• 2011-10-28 · Reading Chapter One of The Fault in Our Stars — Augustus explains his unlit cigarette as a metaphor: holding the killing thing between your teeth without giving it the power to kill; Hazel then goes to the movie with him. (00:26:29)
• 2011-10-28 · Reading Chapter One of The Fault in Our Stars — John says the book is the story of Hazel and Augustus trying to come to terms with Hazel's opening soliloquy that everything will end in oblivion, and of their life together. (00:27:15)
• 2011-11-25 · Chapter TWO of The Fault in Our Stars — John recaps Chapter 1: Hazel and Augustus meet at a cancer kids' support group; he says she looks like V for Vendetta-era Natalie Portman and invites her to watch it at his house. (00:00:37)
• 2011-11-25 · Chapter TWO of The Fault in Our Stars — Augustus asks for Hazel's story, not her cancer story, and urges her not to become her disease, since cancer is in the business of taking people over. (00:15:10)

2012

• 2012-01-10 · The Fault in Our Stars — John says he could never have written TFIOS without knowing a private person, who definitely inspired it, but stresses that Hazel is not a private person: the book is made up, a novel. (00:02:11)
• 2012-03-20 · Sharpie Face Question Tuesday — Asked who should play Hazel and Augustus, John says he knows nothing of contemporary actors (Drew Barrymore is still 17 in his mind) and asks who viewers would want. (00:01:28)
• 2012-03-20 · Sharpie Face Question Tuesday — John explains Hazel's name: hazel is an in-between color and she has an in-between life, between health and sickness, adolescence and adulthood, swimming and drowning. (00:02:49)
• 2012-03-27 · Wrong but Right: Thoughts from Places Amsterdam — John walks toward the Vondelpark to relive Gus and Hazel's wish, showing the novel's places: the Hotel de Filosoof, the tree Hazel looks at, Peter Van Houten's house, the Anne Frank House and the canal-side bench. (00:00:43)
• 2012-03-27 · Wrong but Right: Thoughts from Places Amsterdam — At a theater John heard a presentation on the mathematics in The Fault in Our Stars, covering Venn diagrams and Hazel's incorrect assumption that there are more whole numbers between 0 and 2 than between 0 and 1. (00:01:13)
• 2012-03-27 · Wrong but Right: Thoughts from Places Amsterdam — John says Hazel is wrong about infinite cardinality, but right that some infinities are larger than others. (00:02:01)
• 2012-03-27 · Wrong but Right: Thoughts from Places Amsterdam — John says he wanted Hazel to be wrong but right, because that is how we muddle through as observers of the universe, forging meaning from fact and fiction alike. (00:02:01)

2013

• 2013-01-16 · An Evening of Awesome at Carnegie Hall — Hank sings a song about The Fault in Our Stars from Hazel Grace's perspective, asking the audience to pretend he is a teenage girl. (02:14:35)
• 2013-04-02 · TFiOS Movie Casting, New Books, and Groundhog Wars: An Old School Vlogbrothers Video — Answering readers who ask whether Hazel is a private person, John says the novel is not a private person's story; her story belongs to her and her family. (00:00:00)
• 2013-04-02 · TFiOS Movie Casting, New Books, and Groundhog Wars: An Old School Vlogbrothers Video — John announces Shailene Woodley has been cast as Hazel, citing her Golden Globe nomination and Sundance award, and says she is a real fan who wrote him before the film. (00:01:56)
• 2013-05-14 · Puppies, Pegasi, and TFiOS Casting: It's Question Tuesday — John confirms the TFIOS film casting: Ansel Elgort as Augustus Waters and Shailene Woodley as Hazel Grace Lancaster. (00:00:37)
• 2013-08-13 · Shailene's Hair, Unfair Monopoly, and the Just World Fallacy — John says Shailene Woodley, who will play Hazel in the Fault in Our Stars movie, is a rare soul who stays weird, empathetic and wonderful despite success. (00:02:49)
• 2013-08-13 · Shailene's Hair, Unfair Monopoly, and the Just World Fallacy — John says Shailene must cut her hair to play Hazel Grace and will donate it to Children With Hair Loss, which gives free wigs to kids who lost hair through illness or burns. (00:03:05)
• 2013-09-17 · Question Tuesday with Nat Wolff (aka Isaac in The Fault in Our Stars movie) — Nat says his favourite book of all time is The Catcher in the Rye, which, like Hazel, he read at an important time in his life. (00:03:16)
• 2013-10-22 · Question Tuesday: The Fault in Our Stars Movie Edition — To people saying Shailene is too attractive to play Hazel, John replies he is offended on Hazel's behalf: the book never says she is not attractive. (00:02:55)