Filming continues on the Divergent sequel Insurgent, and in a new interview with the LA Times, the lead stars discuss what’s different this time around.

Shailene Woodley (Tris) and Theo James (Four) chatted with the Times’ Hero Complex blog and had nice things to say about how the second film in their four-part series feels different from Divergent. In fact, according to Woodley, “everything” is different.

“We’re in Atlanta, it’s summer, it’s not cold, Chicago winter,” she says. “Our director is different, the set design is different, the costumes are different. It feels much bigger. It’s interesting because the movie feels bigger in tone and in image but in a scene it feels smaller. Some scenes feel like we’re doing an indie film in a way because they’re so full of truth.

Woodley describes Insurgent director Robert Schwentke as someone who takes his time to make sure they get each scene right. He’s “really, really keen on making sure we feel comfortable with a scene as well as he feels comfortable with a scene,” she says. “Until it has the right flow or the right tone, he won’t move on and that’s a big blessing in a big movie like this.”

James adds that “it looks kind of richer and bigger and more complex, but what came through to me was the emotionality behind it.

“There’s real stakes behind it, and sometimes that’s hard to find in spectacular situations. If you’re watching these movies that are spectacles, which are fun and it’s about this thing and escapism, sometimes the crux of the emotionality gets lost. That doesn’t necessarily sometimes matter, but we are trying to retain that with this film.”

Woodley told a brief story about spending three days working on an emotional scene with a co-star. “It was nice to go home at the end of the day and feel exhausted for exerting a lot of feeling versus exerting a lot of physical energy,” she said of the film’s balance.

Insurgent hits theaters this March. While we haven’t seen any official photos or videos from the highly-anticipated sequel, we do know that Woodley’s Tris will have a much shorter hair style than what we saw in Divergent.

Read more with Woodley and James over on Hero Complex.