The Summer I Turned Pretty

This image released by Amazon Prime Video shows Lola Tung in a scene from the series "The Summer I Turned Pretty." (Dana Hawley/Amazon Prime Video via AP).

By Continuing to access the website, you agree that we will store data in a cookie as outlined in our Privacy Policy. “She always knew how I was feeling and how to comfort me and be there for me.” It used to be as a novelist of just solving my own problems and my character’s problems, but on a show, you have a lot of other people’s problems to figure out.” And I wanted to it to feel personal.” (She shares a co-showrunner title with co-creator, Gabrielle Stanton.). Han wrote the book the series is based on and also is the author of the “To All the Boys” trilogy, which was adapted into films for Netflix. This summer, however, she’s more mature and arrives at the beach as a pretty teenager, turning heads wherever she goes.

Where have I seen Jackie Chung before? Chung has appeared in Grey's Anatomy and Station 19, amongst other series and films. Rachel Blanchard plays Susannah.

Where have I seen Colin Ferguson before? Where have I seen Alfredo Narciso before? Where have I seen Gavin Casalegno before? Where have I seen Jackie Chung before? Where have I seen Lola Tung before? She is best friends with Susannah.

Lola Tung said she didn't have high expectations when she sent in her audition tape for the leading role in the new adaptation of author Jenny Han's "The ...

"I felt like I could relate to her in a lot of ways," Tung explained. "It feels really, really cool to bring this to life, and to get the privilege to do that, too." "You can see that through Belly and especially Lola," he said.

The show would have been more appealing had it made a point about how one doesn't need to be pretty to have a pure heart.

Prettiness is also a feature of the other women characters who then use it to “catch and release.” Beauty is also work. A common way to increase the stakes of a love triangle is to cinch it with siblings but here, there are no threats of relationships breaking, or any hatred aroused by love. Even Belly’s competition, the tormented other woman, Nicole, who is at the receiving end of situationship stunted by Belly’s arrival, delivers an assessment to our protagonist, “You’re kind of a f**kgirl,” to which Belly agrees. Belly’s specialness to Susannah and the Fisher boys can feel overplayed. Belly is in the privileged position of being the girl next door but a newbie in town. The love triangle is reversed. In the first big show of camaraderie, the ladies pass each other a hip flask at high tea, when introductory speeches are being made about a history of elegance, and the productive potential of the ball. In a surprising moment, Belly’s best friend, Hurricane Taylor, who we’re told is the more popular one, confronts Belly about how she never gets to feel like a main character in their friendship, always the wingwoman, never the matched. The first time we see “Belly” or Isabella in the new Amazon Prime screen adaptation of Jenny Han's eponymous novel, The Summer I Turned Pretty, she is no subject of a makeover, she’s just a couple of summers old. Belly looks forward to every June to August because she looks forward to being with her tribe in a house by the beach, with a pool for night swims and a big screen for cosy movie nights. Attractiveness does turn into vanity as dress after new dress is borrowed, gifted and sharpened as a tool to make Conrad notice. In fact, the show is careful about framing typically gendered coming-of-age tropes.

Author Jenny Han says it was exciting for her to work on the series adaptation of her novel "The Summer I Turned Pretty" as it gave her an opportunity.

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The Summer I Turned Pretty premieres on Amazon Prime June 17. The TV series is based off another book series from author Jenny Han, and just like TATB, The ...

To now.” — Jenny Han It was the summer I turned pretty.” — Jenny Han My whole life was measured in summers.” — Jenny Han - “In the dark you can feel really close to a person. - “For me, it was almost like winter didn’t count. The TV series is based off another book series from author Jenny Han, and just like TATB, The Summer I Turned Pretty is filled with young love and a dramatic love triangle.

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I think she’s a tad bit more spontaneous than I am and maybe a little more impulsive with the things that she says, but I liked how she can stand up for herself in certain situations.” “It’s more of an internal shift of self-discovery and growing up, which is so much more than just your physical appearance.” “I auditioned because it’s amazing, but it was very much a stretch — and then I ended up getting in,” Tung said. “This is the summer that she is discovering a lot about herself and becoming more independent and finding her own path, and navigating new relationships and old relationships that have new meaning,” Tung said. So I filmed the tapes with my roommates, who were also (CMU) drama majors, and I submitted them and then got a call that they wanted me to test for the role a couple of days later. “I had just started working with my manager, who had seen me in a virtual high school showcase that I did,” Tung said of getting an audition for a role that her manager thought Tung would be ideal for.

The TV adaptation of Jenny Han's YA novel is getting another season on Amazon Prime Video.

A week before the series debuted, Deadline announced that Amazon renewed The Summer I Turned Pretty for Season 2. If Amazon’s show is as successful as the hit Netflix rom-com, The Summer I Turned Pretty is likely to see a third installment to round out its adaptation. The TV series is based on The Summer I Turned Pretty by Jenny Han. The author’s name probably sounds familiar because Han is the mind behind the To All The Boys I Loved Before series that evolved from best-selling books to a Netflix movie trilogy. Since Belly remains the main character in the book trilogy, the TV show will likely keep its lead, Lola Tung, at the forefront in its sophomore season. Summer is right around the corner, and thankfully, Prime Video has just the right show to welcome the sunny new season. Motherhood and female friendship take centerstage atop the backdrop of first loves and first heartbreaks, all existing throughout one perfect summer.

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She called working on the show “the best four months” of her life, and even posted to her grid for her co-star Lola Tung’s birthday. The Summer I Turned Pretty is Mills’ first big acting credit, but that doesn’t mean she’s inexperienced. The large cast of characters is full of love triangles and heartbreaks, including cool socialite Shayla, played by Minnie Mills. Here’s everything to know about the Summer I Turned Pretty star, who’s making her major acting debut on the show.

The Summer I Turned Pretty Season 1 is now available to stream on Prime Video. It's based on a book series by Jenny Han. How many books are in the series?

The first season of the Prime Video series is based on the first book. Fans will want to know how many books there are to get an idea of the number of seasons Prime Video needs to bring us. If you haven’t checked out the Summer book series by Jenny Han, you need to right now.

From Jenny Han, the author of the novels that inspired that film franchise, comes The Summer I Turned Pretty - an Amazon Prime original series about a teenage ...

Some of his most notable small screen credits include MTV’s series adaptation of Scream, voicing Booster Gold on Batman: The Brave and the Bold, and as a part of Netflix’s 13 Reasons Why cast as Tyler Down’s father. He made his acting debut in 2015 as a “Spy Jogger” in 11-minute romantic comedy, Mature Young Adults, and first starred in a feature film the next year with the more dramatic, Happy Baby. However, Kaufman’s earliest gig was narrating the 2012 documentary, City World. Chung has also made notable guest spots on Grey’s Anatomy and HBO Max’s Station 19, and co-wrote and starred in the 2006 miniseries, Finding My America. Before the premiere season of the romantic, coming-of-age drama drops Friday, June 17, 2022, let’s take a look at who plays whom in the Summer I Turned Pretty cast. Speaking of “introducing,” audiences will be officially introduced to Lola Tung when she makes her acting debut leading Amazon Prime’s The Summer I Turned Pretty cast. From Jenny Han, the author of the novels that inspired that film franchise, comes The Summer I Turned Pretty - an Amazon Prime original series about a teenage girl who becomes wrapped up in a love triangle with her two childhood friends during one life-changing summer.

To All the Boys I've Loved Before will be happy to hear another Jenny Han trilogy is being adapted. It's all about The Summer I Turned Pretty.

All episodes of The Summer I Turned Pretty season 1 are now available to stream there. The question fans of the Jenny Han novels have is where The Summer I Turned Pretty will stream. When news spread that The Summer I Turned Pretty would be turned into a TV series, there was a lot of cheers.

The Prime Video series, based on the books of the same name, is emphasizing emotional growth, and choosing yourself.

“The way that she feels is what's different, and I think that's one of the really lovely things about summer is that you can go off and be a different version of yourself and then you come back and you feel somewhat changed. In one of the first scenes of the series, Belly, on her way to Cousins with her mom and brother, is hit on by an older guy at a convenience store. Because I think it's the perfect way to sum up [the] message of the show.” In a way, Belly is reclaiming the idea of beauty and glowing up — specifically, the idea that hers is for anyone but herself. The moment comes near the end of Prime Video's adaptation of the popular YA book, which premieres Friday, and the end of Belly’s summer at Cousins Beach, where she’s been coming for years alongside brothers Conrad and Jeremiah Fisher — but this summer is different. Surrounded by other giddy teens doing their makeupand immersed in the somewhat patriarchal but changing world of debutante balls(think lots of white — both clothing and people — and ballroom dancing), Belly gazes at herself in the mirror and says in a voiceover: “Girls aren’t supposed to know if we’re pretty or not.

The Summer I Turned Pretty Season 2 is definitely happening. The bad news is we have a wait on our hands. It's not coming to Prime Video this month.

The good news is Prime Video renewed The Summer I Turned Pretty for a second season ahead of the first season premiere. If the latter is the case for this one, we’re looking at June 2023 at the earliest. The Summer I Turned Pretty Season 2 is definitely happening. We’re not expecting the second season to arrive on Prime Video any time soon. Now we just wait for the release of the season. The bad news is we have a wait on our hands.

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“But the community is so supportive and I am in contact with my teachers and my friends, which is really lovely.” “It was really hard to balance both,” she says of school and professional commitments. In other words, the perfect summer binge with characters you’ll love, a house that will make you want to move to a beach town, and an engaging love story.

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I loved that I could relate to her a lot because then it was so much easier to do the work and bring her to life… At LaGuardia, I studied drama and I think that's when I realized that it was something I wanted to do for the rest of my life or make a career out of it, hopefully. like Jenny with creating the screen adaptation, keeping Belly from the book alive and then bringing myself to her a little bit. I was the Tin Man in The Wizard of Oz. From there, I was like, "I really enjoy this and I want to keep doing it!" I think I was trying to find that balance of… So that was really, really wonderful and amazing and crazy.

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And by the looks of things, this love triangle is about to get a whole lot messier. Patience is a virtue, guys! If this summer really and truly is the last summer, it should end the way it started – at Cousins Beach." The Summer I Turned Pretty season 2 trailer: When can I see it? Everything that was right and good has fallen apart, leaving Belly wishing summer would never come. And it can only happen back at the beach house, the three of them together, the way things used to be.

"The Summer I Turned Pretty" was renewed for a second season. Read on for cast interviews and plot spoilers based on Jenny Han's book series.

To find his ins and outs, what makes him tick, why he's so mean sometimes." On the grown-up side of things, Jackie Chung plays Laurel, Belly and Steven's mom. "He is the life of the party. Grieving, they throw a blow-out party, and Laurel comes to deal with the aftermath. When Conrad disappears from school, Belly and Jeremiah go on a road trip to find him, ending up at the beach house. Tung, if you're curious, won't take sides in the Team Conrad or Team Jeremiah debate. However, she decided to "choose" Jeremiah, because he's able to communicate and tell her how he feels. Conrad and Belly explore a romantic connection — he even takes her to prom prior to Susannah's death. Susannah dies of the breast cancer she had been hiding from her kids in Season One, until her diagnosis comes out in the dramatic finale. "'The Summer I Turned Pretty' is about a girl's coming of age. "I want to know what happens! The announce date has not been scheduled.

The series plays multiple Taylor Swift songs and there's a nod to her on the volleyball board. There are references from the book, like the stuffed animal from ...

Team Turducken is also on the board and it's a nod to the books. Team Swiftie is on the board as well, which is the name for Taylor Swift fans and a likely reference to the use of Swift's music throughout the show. There's a Pink Ladies team that's referencing "Grease" and The Capulets, which is referencing Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet."" She reaches into a bag and pulls out a makeup sponge that already has a dab of foundation on it and covers up the bruise in seconds. The dress Belly ends up wearing to the first debutante tea is one that Laurel picked out at the store, though Belly never tries the dress on during the shopping montage and isn't seen in it until arriving at the tea. - The series plays multiple Taylor Swift songs and there's a nod to her on the volleyball board.

Prepare to fall in love with Christopher Briney and his character Conrad in the new Amazon Prime Video series, "The Summer I Turned Pretty."

“I worked a lot with the director on the actual physicality of a panic attack and what that aesthetically looks like. I think it's common as a teenager to be going through a lot of things and to be confused, not knowing how to share that with people, or if you even can.” “He's so rude and dismissive and closed off to the world,” he says of the character.

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And to this day, she’s only ever been in love with Conrad and Jeremiah Fisher. The sequel to The Summer I Turned Pretty picks up nearly a year after the previous summer. Here, we’ve listed all three The Summer I Turned Pretty books in order, so cozy into your beach chair and prepare to practically smell the sea salt lift from the pages. As the tide rolls in and out again and the sunburns form and fade away, Belly finds herself questioning what her heart truly wants. Han, the author behind the To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before series, has now adapted The Summer I Turned Pretty for Prime Video. The first season dropped on June 17 and has already been greenlit for season two. And you’ll find exactly that in author Jenny Han’s The Summer I Turned Pretty trilogy series, which follows the complicated love life of Isabel “Belly” Conklin.

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One of the girls partaking in the debutante ball also chooses her girlfriend to be her escort in a super-sweet moment. - In the book: Instagram? No. FaceTime sessions? In the show: We dig further into Laurel and Susannah’s relationship. Jenny herself revealed to Varietythat she wanted to incorporate more texting and social media into the storytelling. In the show: There's an entire country club debutante ball, which introduces a completely new story element. In the book, Belly also didn’t know Cam before their kiss at a bonfire on the beach. In the show: Let's just say Belly teaches her mom what a verification status means on Instagram, and she FaceTimes Taylor to dish on the latest gossip. Rather, we know there's a lot of tension between the two because he cheated on Susannah while she was undergoing her first round of chemo. The book even recalls the summer Belly was 13 when she and Jeremiah bonded after they both overhead Susannah talking to Laurel about her potential treatments and crying over the possibility of a mastectomy. This is pretty much how we know the two end up choosing each other and that the eldest brother finally confessed his feelings. Amazon’s The Summer I Turned Pretty is, in large part, a tender series that pays homage to experiences teenagers face as they come of age. Below, find 15 key differences between The Summer I Turned Pretty book and the TV show.

Jenny Han, author of the book series the show is based on and executive producer of the series, said that from the moment TSITP was given the green light, she ...

Thank goodness for Lola, who brought the conversation back to earth and TSITP. “I think Mars is a great start, but also, I think, more growth. We can assume that season 2 will also be making some changes to enhance the story while bringing it into the present! The Summer I Turned Pretty is finally here and we’re already counting the days down for season 2!

'The Summer I Turned Pretty' author and showrunner Jenny Han talks about the decision to make [spoiler] sexually fluid in the Amazon series.

“I still feel that all the characters are the same,” she notes. He is a young person who’s figuring out where he falls in all that and hasn’t experienced a lot of of love yet. I do think that’s more reflective of today and young people today and the way they view sexuality being much more of a spectrum.”

Based on the novel by Jenny Han comes the new series The Summer I Turned Pretty. Here's how you can watch it.

You will be able to stream all eight episodes of The Summer I Turned Pretty on Amazon Prime Video. Don't have an Amazon Prime account? Love, Victor: Based on the 2018 romantic film, Love, Simon, which was based on the book, Simon vs. The Kissing Booth film series stars Joey King, Jacob Elordi, and Joel Courtney. The film was written and directed by Vince Marcello. You can watch all three The Kissing Booth films on Netflix. The Summer I Turned Pretty is a romantic drama series that tells the story of Belly. During an annual summer vacation at her family friend’s beach house, she reunites with her friends, Jeremiah and Conrad, who also happen to be brothers and now, Belly is stuck in a love triangle between the two brothers. It is a coming-of-age story about first love, first heartbreak, and the magic of that one perfect summer.” The show is based on Jenny Han’s coming-of-age novel of the same name.

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Susannah and Laurel don't have a big argument in the book. In the first book, Belly describes the time Taylor visited her at Cousins when they were 14. Belly's parents had been divorced for several years in the book. On the show, Laurel and Susannah discuss the return of Susannah's breast cancer pretty early on. On the show, this happens in public at the debutante ball, but in the book, they fight outside the beach house. There's a bit of tension between Belly and her mother, and Belly generally prefers talking to and spending time with Susannah in the book. Today, almost half of US states have fully legalized marijuana, and weed has become more fashionable than cigarettes in many ways. At the end of both the book and the first season of the show, Jeremiah and Conrad get into a big fist fight that Belly worries is over her. Belly doesn't drink alcohol in the first book of the trilogy. Jeremiah is a flirt in both the book and on the show, but in the book, he only appears to be attracted to girls. The Cousins debutante ball is a large part of the show, but it isn't in the book at all. On the show, Belly takes her friend Taylor's advice and wears a dress to the bonfire she attends at the beginning of the summer.

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Nicole is a little older than Belly as her debutante sister and mentor. Steven's girlfriend and fellow debutante Shayla is 16 just like Belly, but Minnie is a little older in real life. Belly's polar-opposite BFF Taylor is the same age as her, but the actress who plays her may be a little older in real life. According to Famous Birthdays, the actor was born in 2000 and if the math is mathing, that means he's either 21 or 22. Age: early 20s So, if you're wondering just how much older the actors are than the characters they portray on the show, look no further.

In The Summer I Turned Pretty, main character Isabel “Belly” Conklin (Lola Tung), definitely does a lot of pining after Conrad Fisher, played by Christopher ...

The Summer I Turned Pretty, which is based on author Jenny Han’s hit books series of the same name, premiered on Prime Video on June 17. In The Summer I Turned Pretty, main character Isabel “Belly” Conklin (Lola Tung), definitely does a lot of pining after Conrad Fisher, played by Christopher Briney. And while Briney is a relative newcomer, it’s likely The Summer I Turned Pretty is going to inspire much yearning for him in due time. Sure, it’s fun to see the characters share a kiss and get their “happily ever after” moment, but all of that is only worth it if it takes a lot of pining after each other to get there.

Jenny Han, 'The Summer I Turned Pretty' author, talks the show's changes and what couple she sees together in the end.

So I would love to be able to finish telling that story the way that I wrote it. The way I approached the music was thinking about how I think that there’s always that song of summer. Different artists handle it different ways, but that was pretty much the process for all the music that we approached. I would say that Rachel and I talked a lot about how I think that Susannah is like one of the most important characters in the first season. I really wanted to show the breadth of female friendships and the intensity of it and the intimacy of it and really celebrate how these two women chose each other, and they’ve been choosing each other for decades. We have a lot of conversations about Susannah’s trajectory and all the cast members read the books as well, so everybody was coming into it with that base of knowledge. It’s a bit of a balancing act, because I really had to weigh what the fans are expecting with where the show is going creatively and find that balance. There is a lot of Taylor Swift, Olivia Rodrigo and Ariana Grande. Can you explain your process of getting the rights to those huge hits? I think it was it was a really natural choice to make. I definitely had moments of going back and forth for sure, because I think in order to write these characters, you have to love them and you have to understand them and have empathy for them. Bely has always had a crush on one of the boys, Conrad, and is best friends with his brother, Jeremiah. Ahead of her 16th birthday, she returned back to the beach once again and they all took notice that she was no longer a little girl. She’s the main character and so it was the most important that we found our right Belly,” Han tells Variety. “Lola had this freshness to her.

Lola Tung poses alongside author Jenny Han at The Press Lounge in New York City on Thursday (June 16). Hosted by Phenomenal CEO & Founder Meena Harris, ...

'The Summer I Turned Pretty' is officially out! Here is a breakdown on Belly and Conrad's complete relationship timeline throughout season 1.

While TSITP is sure to be the show of the summer, let’s deep dive into one relationship we hope you enjoyed as much as we did while watching. “You sort of, you know, slam the two together,” he joked. The Summer I Turned Pretty is finally out and it’s full of swoonworthy moments that we just can’t get enough of!

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As he goes in for a kiss, Belly stops him and tells him that she just doesn’t want to be someone he needs but wishes to be someone he wants. But after he tells her that he can’t go to the debutante ball with her as her date, and even after their almost-kiss moment, Belly decides to move on for good. Conrad admits to it and says that he wanted to give it to her but couldn’t. They flirt with each other and are about to kiss when they are interrupted by a firework set off by Jeremiah. This encounter makes Belly believe that Conrad has feelings for her, and she is going to get her summer wish of being able to kiss him. It was also her friendship with the other characters, and most of all, it was the friendship of Lauren and Susannah that made this such a special watch for us. Which is why when Conrad gives her the necklace he had bought for her, she doesn’t accept it and tells him that he is too late, meaning she is going to the ball with Jeremiah. They go on a few dates, and she seems to be having a good time, but is clearly not over Conrad. She even goes on to ask him to be her escort to the debutante ball, and he agrees. Cam is the guy Belly goes out with when she decides not to spend her summer moping about Conrad, and good for her for that decision. This fact seems to be clear to Belly as well, right from the moment he flirts with her on her first night in their house to when he crashes her date with Cam. However, despite all her pining, she does not wait for him to come around. Because at the Fourth of July celebrations, Belly gets extremely drunk and flirts with Conrad. She slyly confronts him about the necklace she found in his stuff and tells him she has figured out that he bought it for her birthday. As for the audience, it is pretty clear to us that Conrad reciprocates Belly’s feelings for him, though he is not expressing them. “The Summer I Turned Pretty” is a sweet story about Belly, a shy teenager, coming into her own during a summer spent with her friends and family. Any rocky phase they may have had in their friendship had to come from a frustrating concern for each other, which they got over, with heartbreaking respect for the other’s choices.

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They're still all trying to have a “normal” summer together, but that proves to be more and more challenging. Yes, Deadline reports that the second season will definitely be happening. That might mean viewers haven't had a chance to binge the show and get obsessed with it, but it sure sounds like they will.