All about love! As The Summer I Turned Pretty fans found themselves caught between Team Conrad or Team Jeremiah, the cast of the hit Prime Video series has had sparks flying off display in their own love lives.
After the display 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). For Casalegno, it used to be important to show how Jeremiah’s feelings for Belly grew after so many years of them just being buddies.
“I believe with our dating, and with our romantic dating with Belly, it was so much amusing just being able to discover the authenticity of it and the genuineness. Just it being so genuine,” he advised J-14 at the time. “It used to be such a lot a laugh to paintings with Lola on display screen. I felt like everything just roughly went tremendous smoothly. I know everyone’s going to like it.”
The Texas native additionally praised author and showrunner Jenny Han for allowing his character to explore his sexuality. “That’s where I think Jenny did a gorgeous process with her writing and now not making it something that was like, like every [a part of the character],” Casalegno explained during an interview with Seventeen in June 2022. “It wasn’t the whole thing — it was just a great little deal with on the side, and I believe it in point of fact simply is going to turn how wonderful Jenny is with updating her paintings and bringing it to nowadays’s international, because it’s so other now.”
He continued: “Honestly, I used to be so honored to be part of that change and that course of where we have been taking it and [bringing] that range. And I believe it’s so vital to have that. I believe it’s so special. Jeremiah is all the time he’s figuring out, more and more, who he's and that’s simply a part of him. It’s a ravishing process, and I simply have Jenny to thank for that completely.”
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 used to be when my present girlfriend had her sixteenth celebration and I had handiest spent like a week with her at that point,” he recalled to the mag. “I secretly bought a aircraft ticket out to head surprise her for her 16th. Her parents brought her to a couple eating place at Universal Studios and I jumped out of the nook and fake proposed with a Hershey’s kiss. Little did I know her dad used to be status right there, and in order that used to be the first time assembly him. It was once hilarious. We snicker about it now, however I haven’t discovered a period that I wouldn’t cross to make a romantic gesture.”
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His costar Briney, alternatively, has kept his romance with Isabela Rose Machado more low-key up to now. In June 2022, Machado showed her support for her boyfriend by walking the red carpet with him at The Summer I Turned Pretty premiere in New York City.
Keep scrolling to learn more about The Summer I Turned Pretty cast and their respective love lives:
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