Jenny Han, the master behind affairs of the heart and the show, talks with fIetcherpeters about her “To All the Boys” follow-up: the beautiful, beach-y TV take on “The Summer I Turned Pretty.”
, the last cinematic take on her work, the Prime Video series is packed with beachy vibes thanks to endless sundresses, hunky boys shredding their shirts, and the crash of waves echoing over all seven episodes. If you love summer, rom-coms, and Taylor Swift, you’ll adoreThough the boys are perhaps not as alluring as Noah Centineo once was in, Isabelle —aka Belly, the cutest nickname that ever was—has the strongest feelings of all time for her crush.
You might remember from the books [that] they don’t text each other, really, and there’s no social media. I always wanted it to feel like this was a separate time and place, in a way. Cousins Beach That’s the hardest part! You really want to serve the fans, but you also want to make sure that people understand what story you’re telling without having read the books. I was really looking at it like: What do fans care the most about? I wanted to make sure that was in there, be it a certain scene or a line. That kept being my touchstone to go back to, over and over again.
Those glasses that she wears are my old glasses—those pink ones. The braces, those things just helped her feel younger. When I was looking at the characters and really wanting to feel like the essence was there for all of them, but [also asking] who would they be in 2022, I felt like that was true to the character. I felt like Jeremiah is somebody who is really unselfconscious, and really comfortable with himself and comfortable in his own skin. If I were telling the story today, that’s how I would tell the character.
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