“What would I do now if I was telling the story in 2022? I don’t shy away from taking a different turn as long as the core is still intact. “Fifteen years later, the world looks different, and I’m different,” Han told The Times last year on the “Summer” set. Han curated more of the beloved book moments, Easter eggs and pop music needle drops that hooked fans in the first season.Īnd with new characters and expanded storylines, she’s taken creative detours big and small from the book trilogy, which was published between 20, that the series is based on. In Season 1 we see Belly experience longing and her first love, and in the new season, you can expect deeper complications as she navigates heartache and second chances against the sonic backdrop of Taylor Swift and Olivia Rodrigo tracks, as well as the throwback ‘90s cuts that bring a frisson of “My So-Called Life” angst to fictional Cousins Beach. ‘The Summer I Turned Pretty.’ ‘To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before.’ ‘XO, Kitty.’ With three hit book-to-screen franchises, bestselling-author-turned-showrunner Jenny Han shares how she built her YA media empire to last. Television The Jenny Han Effect: How the YA rock star took charge of her own media empire New episodes are being released weekly on Fridays. “Summer” fever has only grown since following the release of the first three episodes of Season 2 last week, Amazon announced that the series had more than doubled its worldwide audience since the first season, and the hashtag #thesummeriturnedpretty has reached more than 8 billion views on TikTok. (For the record, added the native New Yorker, she’s a Mets fan.) She was 18 when she landed the breakout role - her first professional acting gig - of Isabel “Belly” Conklin, a teenage girl coming into her own one fateful summer, and she reprises it for Season 2, which was adapted from Han’s sequel novel “It’s Not Summer Without You.”įueled by viral online reactions and the popularity of Han’s bestselling novels, “Summer” was renewed even before the series premiered last June, skyrocketing Tung and her co-stars, Christopher Briney and Gavin Casalegno, who play brothers and romantic rivals Conrad and Jeremiah Fisher, to social media fame virtually overnight. “It’s been a wild ride, in the best way,” Tung told the Times. The series was soon to be a hit, heading toward a No. The stars of Jenny Han‘s coming-of-age YA romance adaptation were recognized by strangers who professed their love for the show, which had barely been out a week. The first time Lola Tung realized anyone was watching “ The Summer I Turned Pretty,” really watching it, was last year at a Yankees game with her cast mates. Editor’s note: Interviews for this story took place prior to the SAG-AFTRA strike.
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