Actress Shailene Woodley on Why Community Transportation Is ‘Romantic’ — Plus, Her Dream Shuttle

For actress Shailene Woodley, taking crowd transportation would possibly as smartly be the very best backdrop for a rom-com scene.

”It’s romantic since you’re pressured to have interaction with the arena round you,” the actress instructed Advance + Diversion at Uber’s climate conference in London ultimate occasion. “And anytime that interplay happens, for me as an artist, it’s deeply inspiring. And it’s additionally a reminder that we’re now not unwanted and everyone’s more or less going thru the similar issues, even supposing it seems to be other.” 

If truth be told, the Yellowish Globes- and Emmy-nominated actress, identified for her roles in “Big Little Lies,” “Divergent,” and “The Fault in Our Stars,” famous how taking a educate or shared journey is helping her discover a unused playground as a traveler.

“[In] most of the world, public transportation is really incredible,” And to me, the easiest way to understand a culture is to actually just exist within that culture instead of being removed from it,” she stated.

Particularly, Woodley praised the trains in towns like Paris and London, the place she stated she by no means feels rather as “hot and sticky” as she does at the subway in Unutilized York Town.

“Europe in general is built for public transportation,” she stated. “America — we definitely have some work to do — but it’s also massive, our country is huge. And so when you’re in a specific city and you can employ the bus system or you can employ Uber ride shares… it’s a no brainer.”

Woodley’s love of backup transportation does now not finish with trains and buses. She additionally loves choosing a bicycle when she will be able to — it’s even on the middle of one in every of her dream journeys. 

“I want to ride a bike through Italy,” Woodley added. “Tuscany has these incredible bike routes now where you… bike all day and then you drink wine at the vineyards all night, and you eat all the pasta, and then you bike the next day. I would love to do that for a couple weeks — that’s right up my alley.”

Past the rolling hills of Tuscany, Woodley additionally goals of taking to Thailand and Laos the place she desires to spend a longer duration of past exploring. However occasion there are parks nonetheless on her bucket listing, Woodley’s process does hurry her to improbable locations, like Greece, the place she filmed one in every of her untouched tasks, “Killer Heat.”

“The Greek locals that we worked with were… very excited to share their culture with us and help us learn the language, and help us understand their food systems and where their food comes from,” she stated. “There’s like an ancestry in the air in Greece that you can feel, and that, to me, was very unique.”