Nat Wolff On ‘The Fault In Our Stars,’ Ansel Elgort, John Green [VIDEO EXCLUSIVE]

Nat Wolff plays Isaac in The Fault In Our Stars, a blind teenager who is best friends with Augustus and befriends Hazel through him. He lost his vision due to eye cancer, and his blindness posed an acting challenge for Wolff. To prepare for the role, he spent a lot of time simulating daily without his sense of vision, “You know I would wear glasses and close my eyes sometimes, or I would put eye patches on that would kind of mess with my balance,” Wolff told uInterview in an exclusive video interview.

He worked closely with author John Green, who offered his insight on how Isaac should be portrayed on screen in order to avoid making him appear as a lesser character. “I wanted to make sure he came across this way in the movie was not at the butt of the joke,” Wolff told uInterview. “I wanted him to just be a funny guy, you know a funny person.” Isaac gives us a sense of comic relief to a film that is otherwise heartbreaking, “I mean it was just a lot of sobbing. A lot of, you know it’s amazing, it’s amazing that this small story that’s just about 4 or 5 people, you know, is getting this much attention on this big stage,” he said.

Wolff is best known for his work in the teen TV show The Naked Brothers Band which co-stars his brother Alex Wolff.