Prime Video’s rom-com “The Summer I Turned Pretty.” “Jenny Han, who’s the showrunner, creator and author of the books [the show is based on] delivered the news to me over Zoom,” Tung, 19, told The Post. “I kind of froze and had a little bit of a freakout moment.
It was so unbelievable, it was special.”Based on a 2009 trilogy of the same name by Han (who also penned the books that were the basis for the hit Netflix rom-com, “To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before,”) the series, now streaming, has already been renewed for Season 2.It follows Isabel “Belly” Conklin (Tung), a teen girl who spends her summers in an idyllic beach town with her family, where she finds herself in a love triangle with family friends, brothers Conrad (Christopher Briney) and Jeremiah (Gavin Casalegno).
Along the way, she also comes of age and goes through a journey of self-discovery.“I took a little bit from my own life and my own experience of being a teenager and feeling all of the feelings that she had at the same time,” said Tung, a New Yorker. “Even though I was never in a love triangle in the same way, there was sort of an understanding of what it’s like to be 16.
Every interaction is the biggest thing in the world. I was able to bring some of myself to [Isabel], especially in this specific summer.
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