Ansel Elgort Reveals His Most Bizarre Fan Encounter

Ansel Elgort clearly made a convincing Augustus Waters, the terminally ill teen with a prosthetic leg in last summer’s hit tearjerker The Fault in Our Stars. A few queries to Yahoo Answers wondered whether the actor is an amputee in real life, which he cleared up for us (“No,” he’s not). And then there are those fans that approached him recently in New York where he lives.

The 20-year-old told Yahoo Movies at the recent press day of The Divergent Series: Insurgent that a group of people came up and asked him repeatedly if his name was actually Augustus Waters. He refuted, they insisted, and it went back-and-forth until it was finally established that: (a) his name is Ansel Elgort, not Augustus Waters, and (b) he did act in The Fault in Our Stars.

Watch Elgort relive the confusion in the video above. Insurgent — in which he plays Caleb Prior (he is not actually Caleb Prior) — opens March 21.