The plot thickens! The Summer season I Turned Fairly made fairly a splash with its debut on Prime Video — and Stomach’s (Lola Tung) love triangle with brothers Conrad (Christopher Briney) and Jeremiah (Gavin Casalegno) is barely going to get much more difficult in season 2.
Forward of the season 1 premiere, which aired in June 2022, creator and showrunner Jenny Han broke down her makes an attempt to adapt the e-book collection right into a TV present.
“I approached it like, What do I believe are a very powerful parts of the story to maintain? And what do the followers care probably the most about? I'm able to pull from all of the emails, letters, and feedback I’ve seen over time from followers, in order that’s how we checked out this adaptation,” she advised Collider. “What do the unique followers care most about?”
Han added: “After which, additionally for me, what’s going to be most like enjoyable and thrilling to discover? As a result of I believe as a author, it's important to really feel such as you’re doing one thing new in a manner, too. That it’s not going to be simply the very same factor, however what’s the brand new strategy? And the way do I make this really feel recent?”
Based on the creator, getting to include Taylor Swift‘s music into season 1 was certainly one of her favourite additions. “Followers of the books have requested me over time if there may very well be Taylor [Swift] music and I at all times in fact needed it, however I can’t promise something as a result of it’s like lower than me,” she defined to The Wrap that very same month. “However that was probably the most joyous half for me was in a position to give the followers that reward as a result of I knew what it will imply to them as effectively.”
On the time, Han additionally gushed about attending to see Tung deliver Stomach to life in her personal manner. “I actually needed to search out actors that felt actual and pure and recent. There’s a sense of discovery about that. The linchpin was going to be Stomach as a result of every thing hangs round her,” the Virginia native shared with Selection in June 2022. “She’s the primary character and so it was a very powerful that we discovered our proper Stomach.”
For the To All of the Boys I’ve Liked Earlier than creator, the newcomer introduced a much-needed perspective to her lead character. “Lola had this freshness to her. She was nonetheless 18 once we solid her and she or he turned 18 on the present, however I believe it’s actually arduous to fabricate a type of innocence or newness to issues,” she continued. “That is our first half and she or he had by no means finished it earlier than. There’s so many meta parts to that — to Stomach’s large summer season and Lola’s large summer season.”
Tung, for her half, additionally opened up about her introduction to The Summer season I Turned Fairly franchise.
“I used to be a fan of Jenny, just a little bit. I hadn’t learn The Summer season I Turned Fairly till I booked the function, however I used to be a fan of the To All The Boys films and I did usually Netflix occasion them with my mates as a result of they had been so fantastic,” the New York native detailed to Seventeen journal in June 2022. “It’s unbelievable, I can’t imagine [I’m part of The Summer I Turned Pretty]. Jenny’s additionally the very best, so it’s actually fantastic and wild that I’ve fashioned that relationship together with her too.”
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