Let's Talk About That Amazing Cameo In 'Paper Towns'

BEST. SURPRISE. EVER.
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For all you John Green fans out there who rushed to theaters this weekend to see "Paper Towns," we have something to discuss ... O.M.G.

Spoiler alert for anyone who doesn't want to learn who made a surprise cameo in "Paper Towns." 

 

How amazing was that Ansel Elgort cameo?! 

Last year, John Green told The Huffington Post that the "Fault in Our Stars" actor and his co-star Shailene Woodley begged him to be a part of "Paper Towns," even if it was just for a second. "The day that it was announced, I got emails from both Ansel and Shailene, saying, 'I really want to be in "Paper Towns," just a small role, like if I could have like one line.' And I wrote Ansel back and I was like, 'Yeah, I'm sure we can find something for you.' And he was like, 'No man, I’m not kidding. I want to be in the movie.'"

Well, Elgort got his wish. The 21-year-old makes his brief cameo as a gas station attendant during the movie's road trip sequence. 

"It was kind of a last minute thing, but it was so funny," the star of "Paper Towns" Nat Wolff, who also played Elgort's best friend in "TFIOS," told HuffPost of the scene-stealing surprise. "They gave him like tattoos at the last minute, too, and it was pretty hilarious," he said.

Yes, we wholeheartedly agree.

 Elgort seemingly tweeted about his special appearance with the below post of a dragon emoji. (He rocks a dragon tattoo during the scene.)

 

19 John Green Quotes From Tumblr
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"Maybe our favorite quotations say more about us than the stories and people we're quoting..."via theperfectmistake.tumblr.com (credit:treach-er0us.tumblr.com)
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"I go to seek a great perhaps."(Okay, these words actually originated from French writer François Rabelais, but Green famously uses them in "Looking For Alaska")via azulanothing.tumblr.com (credit:curatedquotes.com)
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"It always shocked me when I realized that I wasn't the only person in the world who thought and felt such strange and awful things."via ceu214.tumblr.com (credit:ceu214.tumblr.com)
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"Maybe there's something you're afraid to say, or someone you're afraid to love, or somewhere you're afraid to go. It's gonna hurt. It's gonna hurt because it matters."via -theperfectmistake.tumblr.com (credit:diamonds-and-darkness.tumblr.com)
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"You are going to live a good and long life filled with great and terrible moments that you cannot imagine yet."via ed-ingle.tumblr.com (credit:emotionaltrickery.tumblr.com)
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"The town was paper but the memories were not."via ere1414.tumblr.com (credit:ere1414.tumblr.com)
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"What a treacherous thing to believe that a person is more than a person."via mugglegirl.tumblr.com (credit:mugglegirl.tumblr.com)
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"That's the thing about pain. It demands to be felt."via myquoteworld.tumblr.com (credit:myquoteworld.tumblr.com)
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"When you acknowledge that there is nothing repulsive or unforgivable or shameful about yourself, it becomes easier to be that authentic person and feel like you're living a less performed life."via nostalgic-hermit.tumblr.com (credit:nostalgic-hermit.tumblr.com)
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"'Oh, I'm grand.' Augustus Waters smiled with a corner of his mouth. 'I'm on a roller coaster that only goes up, my friend.'"via professional-dork.tumblr.com (credit:professional-dork.tumblr.com)
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"You are helpful, and you are loved, and you are forgiven, and you are not alone."via quoteoceans.tumblr.com (credit:quoteoceans.tumblr.com)
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"I don't know any perfect people, only really really flawed people who are still worth loving."via -theperfectmistake.tumblr.com (credit:sparksflyinourhearts.tumblr.com)
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"Thomas Edison's last words were, 'It's very beautiful over there.' I don't know where there is, but I believe it's somewhere, and I hope it's beautiful."via starrbooks.tumblr.com (credit:starrbooks.tumblr.com)
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"Some infinites are bigger than other infinites."via starsbecameconstellations.tumblr.com (credit:starsbecameconstellations.tumblr.com)
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"I fell in love with the way you fell asleep, slowly and then all at once."via thatflyingbluebox.tumblr.com (credit:thatflyingbluebox.tumblr.com)
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"And when people try to minimize your pain they are doing you a disservice. And when you try to minimize your own pain you're doing yourself a disservice. Don't do that. The truth is that it hurts because it's real. It hurts because it mattered. And that's an important thing to acknowledge to yourself. But that doesn't mean that it won't end, it won't get better. Because it will."via the-perks-0f-being-infinite.tumblr.com (credit:the-perks-0f-being-infinite.tumblr.com)
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"My thoughts are stars I can't fathom into constellations." via treach-er0us.tumblr.com (credit:treach-er0us.tumblr.com)
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"Just remember that sometimes, the way you think about a person isn't the way they actually are."via writtenbyanother.tumblr.com (credit:writtenbyanother.tumblr.com)
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"Sometimes you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book."via creepystalker98.tumblr.com (credit:http://creepystalker98.tumblr.com/)

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