

They make it the butt of the joke, and Isaac is not the butt of a joke,” Green said. “Isaac’s a really funny person, but sometimes people make jokes about disability. “So adorable and human and just completely true to that character.” The other moment is a joke that neatly takes Green’s themes of people living with their illnesses and disabilities but refusing to be defined by them. “One is when Monica’s mother comes out, and he goes like this,” Green said, imitating Isaac’s move to dispose of an egg behind his back to hide the evidence. Both take place during a scene in which Gus, Hazel, and Isaac go to egg Monica’s house, a truncated clip of which was shown at the panel. The house of Isaacs crumby ex, which Hazel, Gus, and Isaac pelt with.

But I love you guys!”ĭuring a calmer moment, Green was able to share his favorite scenes in the film, one of which was not in the script, both realized by Wolff’s performance as Isaac (“and I’m not just saying that because he’s sitting next to me”). Film locations for The Fault In Our Stars (2014), in Pittsburgh and Amsterdam. (“I couldn’t hear what I was saying some of the time,” Green told Vulture after the panel.) When the screaming turned to pushing (overturning tables and chairs in the mad rush to get to the microphone for the Q&A portion), Green had to scream back, “Stop! Stop! Stop! Stop!” And then, “Everybody back to your seats, just for security purposes. By the time the rest of audience was let in - nearly 2,000 fans had camped out in front of the Special Events Hall at Jacob Javits Center - the noise was overwhelming and threatened to drown out the speakers, which included the director, writers, and producers of the film, as well as actor Nat Wolff. He was previously in a relationship with Monica, until she broke up with him upon hearing he would go blind. He and Augustus are best friends, and through him Augustus befriends Hazel. He had an eye cancer known as retinoblastoma, he also had one glass eye and one real eye, then the other real eye was removed and he is NEC. At their first glimpse of the author, they started cheering, and he gave a friendly wave. Isaac is one of the supporting characters of The Fault in Our Stars.

Thirty minutes before Saturday’s BookCon panel for The Fault in Our Stars, John Green walked up to the stage to grab something, and although it was mostly an empty room, a few teenage girls had managed to sneak in.
