'The Fault in Our Stars' Team Reunites to Dedicate a Bench

Ansel Elgort and Shailene Woodley reenact the famous scene from the movie on Nov. 20

Just about the whole team behind this summer’s smash hit The Fault in Our Stars reunited on Thursday to celebrate the dedication of a green bench on the 20th Century Fox lot in Los Angeles, with a ribbon cutting and photo shoot and everything.

Of course, this was no random bench. As any of the (many, many) obsessive fans of the John Green novel and its big screen adaptation will tell you, a similar looking bench is where Hazel (Shailene Woodley) and Gus (Ansel Elgort) smooch during a magical (and then not-so-magical) trip to Amsterdam. Woodley and Elgort were on hand for the dedication Thursday, as were the movie’s director Josh Boone and Green. “I just started tearing up,” Woodley told USA Today. “This is the perfect tribute. It seems it’s the exact same bench from the film.”

Since the movie premiered in June, the Amsterdam bench has been the subject of some real-life drama. It was stolen for a time in early July, though it was later returned. Elgort later visited the bench during a trip to the city, and took some photos for his delighted Twitter followers.

Ansel Elgort, Shailene Woodley, and author John Green on Thursday

The new bench will remain on the Fox lot, which as USA Today pointed out will be difficult for fans to access since it’s on private property. John Green gave the newspaper a solution though: Trespassing. “Am I going to get in trouble for saying that?” he asked.

The actual scene from the movie

Photo credit: Photo by Valerie Macon/Getty Images, Fox Home Entertainment on Twitter, AP Photo/20th Century Fox, James Bridges, File