John's cameo as 'Girl's Father' is cut from the TFIOS film (2014)
story · status: told 4× · last event: mentioned (2026-06-16)
John's cameo in The Fault in Our Stars film, two lines as a girl's father, was cut because of his bad acting; he has brought it up as a self-deprecating joke from 2019 to 2026.
Told alongside: The Fault in Our Stars film adaptation (2012)
About: The Fault in Our Stars (film), Academy Awards
| date | event | what | video |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014-09-16 | told | John says he had a cameo in the TFiOS film but it was cut, joking that his screen presence was too powerful. (playful) | It's Question Tuesday! Cheesy Jokes, Paper Towns Movie, and Dinosaur Butt Brains 00:00:41 |
| 2016-01-19 | retold | Asked to six-degrees-of-Kevin-Bacon himself, John says he acted in The Fault in Our Stars movie (scene cut, but in the extended version) with Laura Dern, who was in Novocaine with Kevin Bacon. (playful) | The Looking for Alaska Movie, Davos, and Hufflepuff Shade: It's Question Tuesday 00:01:23 |
| 2019-12-03 | retold | John says he can't act: he is such a bad actor that his cameo in the film adaptation of his book was cut, though he kept the wardrobe and wears it now as 'Girl's Father'. (playful) | We Are Cats Now, I Guess? 00:00:27 |
| 2022-05-31 | retold | John says he has never managed a cameo in an adaptation of his books: in The Fault in Our Stars movie he had two lines, but his acting was so bad the scene was cut. (playful) | A Casting Announcement 00:00:29 |
| 2024-04-16 | mentioned | John is in the film with a line, joking that he has progressed significantly as an actor since being cut out of The Fault in Our Stars film. (playful) | I Already Got Paid 00:03:14 |
| 2026-06-16 | mentioned | John says, self-deprecatingly, that his cameo was cut from The Fault in Our Stars because he is such a bad actor. (playful) | My First Novel in Nine Years Has a Cover 00:00:29 |
What is said about it
8 statements, by date (the events above are the turns of the thread; these are the details).
- 2014-09-16 · It's Question Tuesday! Cheesy Jokes, Paper Towns Movie, and Dinosaur Butt Brains — announcement: John says he does not know much about the Looking for Alaska film. (unsure) — 00:00:54
- 2014-09-16 · It's Question Tuesday! Cheesy Jokes, Paper Towns Movie, and Dinosaur Butt Brains — announcement: John says the Paper Towns film looks really likely to happen: they have hired a director, Jake Schreier, who made Robot & Frank. (hedged) — 00:00:54
- 2014-09-16 · It's Question Tuesday! Cheesy Jokes, Paper Towns Movie, and Dinosaur Butt Brains — John calls the Paper Towns screenplay by the writers of the TFiOS film amazing. — 00:01:02
- 2014-09-16 · It's Question Tuesday! Cheesy Jokes, Paper Towns Movie, and Dinosaur Butt Brains — announcement: John says his friend Nat Wolff will play Q in the Paper Towns film. — 00:01:02
- 2014-09-16 · It's Question Tuesday! Cheesy Jokes, Paper Towns Movie, and Dinosaur Butt Brains — announcement: John says the Paper Towns film is supposedly coming out on July 31, so it might actually happen. (hedged) — 00:01:02
- 2014-09-16 · It's Question Tuesday! Cheesy Jokes, Paper Towns Movie, and Dinosaur Butt Brains — John: Asked what he would change in his books, John says 'deadpan' appears about twelve times in Looking for Alaska, probably eleven times too many. (playful, hedged) — 00:01:11
- 2016-01-19 · The Looking for Alaska Movie, Davos, and Hufflepuff Shade: It's Question Tuesday — John: Asked how a dog should wear pants, John says that on dogs with pants he stands with the president. (playful) — 00:01:33
- 2016-01-19 · The Looking for Alaska Movie, Davos, and Hufflepuff Shade: It's Question Tuesday — John says that, as far as he can tell, presidential debates now exist to sell expensive advertising on cable news networks, and at that they are very effective. (playful, hedged) — 00:01:39