All about love! If The summer I became beautiful fans were caught between Team Conrad or Team Jeremiah, the cast of the hit Prime Video series has sent sparks flying off the screen in their own love lives.
After the show debuted in June 2022, viewers quickly fell in love with Belly’s (Lola Tung) adventures in Cousins Beach and her love triangle with brothers Jeremiah (Gavin Casalegno) and Conrad (Christopher Briney). It was important to Casalegno to show how Jeremiah’s feelings for Belly grew after so many years of just being friends.
“I think with our relationship, and with our romantic relationship with Belly, it’s been so nice to just be able to discover the authenticity of it and the realness. Just because it’s so real,” he shared J-14 at the time. “It was so much fun working with Lola on screen. I felt like everything just went super smooth. I know everyone will love it.”
The Texas native also praised author and showrunner Jenny Han for letting his character explore his sexuality. “That’s where I think Jenny did a wonderful job with her writing and didn’t make it into something like everyone else [part of the character]Casalegno explained during an interview with Seventeen in June 2022. “It wasn’t everything – it was just a nice little treat on the side, and I think it really shows how great Jenny is with updating her work and bringing it to today’s world, because it is so different now.
He continued: “Honestly, I was so honored to be a part of that change and that direction we were going and [bringing] that diversity. And I think it’s so important to have that. I think it’s so special. Jeremiah is always figuring out, more and more, who he is and that’s just part of him. It’s been a wonderful process and I just owe it completely to Jenny.”
As for his off-screen love life, Casalegno opened up about being a “hopeless romantic” who prefers making grand gestures for girlfriend Larsen Thompson.
“I think the craziest gesture was when my current girlfriend had her 16th birthday party and I had only spent a week with her at that point,” he recalled to the magazine. “I secretly bought a plane ticket to go and surprise her for her 16th birthday. Her parents took her to some restaurant in Universal Studios and I jumped out of the corner and faked a Hershey’s kiss. I didn’t know her father was standing there, so that was the first time I met him. It was hilarious. We laugh about it now, but I haven’t found a length I wouldn’t go to make a romantic gesture.
However, his costar Briney has maintained his romance Isabela Rose Machado more low-key yet. In June 2022, Machado showed her support for her boyfriend by walking the red carpet with him The summer I became beautiful premiere in New York City.
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