Photos from ‘The Summer I Turned Pretty’ season 2 show Belly, Conrad’s love story

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The plot thickens! The summer I became beautiful made quite an impression with its debut on Prime Video — and Belly’s (Lola Tung) love triangle with brothers Conrad (Christopher Briney) and Jeremiah (Gavin Casalegno) only gets more complicated in Season 2.

Prior to the season 1 premiere, which aired in June 2022, creator and showrunner Jenny Han broke her attempts to adapt the book series into a TV show.

“I approached it like, what do I think are the most important elements of the story to keep? And what do the fans care about most? I can draw from all the emails, letters and comments I’ve seen from fans over the years, so that’s how we looked at this adaptation,” she shared Collider. “What do the original fans care about most?”

Han added: “And then, also for me, what will be the most fun and exciting to explore? Because I think as a writer you should also feel like you’re doing something new. That it won’t be exactly the same, but what is the new approach? And how do I make sure this feels fresh?”

According to the author, to record Taylor Swift‘s music in Season 1 was one of her favorite additions. “Fans of the books have asked me over the years if there could be Taylor [Swift] music and of course I’ve always wanted it, but I can’t promise anything because it’s not up to me,” she explained to The cover that same month. “But that was the most joyous part for me to be able to give the fans that gift because I knew what it would mean to them as well.”

At the time, Han also gushed to see Tung bring Belly to life in her own way. “I really wanted to find actors who felt real and natural and fresh. That gives a sense of discovery. The linchpin would be Belly because everything hangs around her,” the Virginia native shared Variety in June 2022. “She is the main character and so it was most important that we found our right belly.”

For the To all the boys I loved before author, the newcomer brought much-needed perspective to her main character. “Lola had this freshness for her. She was still 18 when we cast her and she turned 18 on the show, but I think it’s very hard to create a kind of innocence or newness in things,” she continued. “This is our first part and she had never done it before. There are so many meta elements in that – for Belly’s big summer and Lola’s big summer.

Tung, for her part, also opened up about her acquaintance with The summer I became beautiful franchise.

“I was a bit of a fan of Jenny. I hadn’t read The summer I became beautiful until I booked the role, but I was a fan of the To all boys movies and I often did them on Netflix with my friends because they were so great,” said the New York native Seventeen magazine in June 2022. “It’s unbelievable, I can’t believe it [I’m part of The Summer I Turned Pretty]. Jenny is also the best, so it’s really great and wild that I formed that relationship with her as well.

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