50 Fun Facts About The Summer I Turned Pretty

In the final season of The Summer I Turned Pretty, to which city does Belly fly alone after her wedding collapses?

Paris starts as an escape: Belly lands to find the exchange programme has no place for her, stays anyway, and months later Conrad begins writing to her there.

On which streaming service does The Summer I Turned Pretty air?

Prime Video took an unusual step before the final season: it posted the first two seasons on YouTube, free for anyone to watch.

Who plays Belly Conklin?

Lola Tung had never acted on camera: a first-year drama student at Carnegie Mellon, she won the lead from a video audition and took a break from college to film it.

Who plays Conrad Fisher?

Christopher Briney was the easiest casting choice of the show, Jenny Han has said: she watched his audition tape and decided at once, though it was his first television role.

Who plays Jeremiah Fisher?

Gavin Casalegno was the screen veteran among the young leads: while his co-stars were making their debuts, he had already played the young Damon in The Vampire Diaries.

Every season 2 episode title of The Summer I Turned Pretty begins with which word?

Love opens all eight, from Love Lost to Love Triangle. Season 1's titles all start with Summer and the final season's with Last, until the finale flips it to At Last.

Susannah's big party at the midpoint of season 1 of The Summer I Turned Pretty marks which holiday?

Fourth of July is when a tipsy Belly lets slip that Steven kissed Taylor, and when she and Conrad nearly kiss before Jeremiah interrupts.

What is the name of the seaside town where the families spend every summer?

Cousins Beach has its own bookshop, Whale of a Tale, where Laurel launches her latest book in season 1 while Conrad, Jeremiah and Steven, bored, slip out early.

Belly is a nickname; what is her given first name?

Isabel is the name she grows into: starting over abroad in the final season, she drops the childhood nickname and goes by her given name with the friends she makes there.

In the TV series The Summer I Turned Pretty, where did best friends Laurel and Susannah first meet?

In college, and they have been inseparable since: every summer Laurel brings her children to Susannah's summer home, which is how Belly grew up alongside the Fisher boys.

Who plays Susannah Fisher?

Rachel Blanchard was the teenager once: in the 1990s she played Cher Horowitz in the television version of Clueless, and here she is the mother of two sons.

In the books, Susannah Fisher goes by what nickname?

Beck is her maiden name: her best friend Laurel, who knew her before she married, has never stopped calling her by it.

Who plays Belly's older brother, Steven?

Sean Kaufman plays Steven as the striver of the group: he waits tables at the country club to save for college in season 1 and graduates as valedictorian in season 2.

Who plays Taylor Jewel, Belly's best friend?

Rain Spencer's Taylor kisses Belly's brother Steven in season 1, straining the girls' friendship, yet the two fall for each other and are a couple by the end of season 2.

Who plays Cam, the local boy Belly dates in season 1 of The Summer I Turned Pretty?

David Iacono's Cam greets Belly by her old Latin-convention name, Flavia: the two had met years earlier as schoolchildren, when he went by Sextus.

Adam Fisher, the boys' father, works as what?

Venture capitalist Adam Fisher runs his own firm, where Jeremiah interns in the final season and has to win over colleagues who write him off as a 'nepo baby'.

John Conklin, Belly's father, has what profession?

Historian John Conklin turns up at Susannah's big summer party with a new girlfriend who is still in grad school, not long after his divorce from Laurel.

Kyra Sedgwick's season 2 character Julia is Susannah's estranged what?

Older half-sister Julia was written for the screen: neither she nor her child Skye appears anywhere in Jenny Han's novels, and her casting was announced with the role kept under wraps.

In the series finale of The Summer I Turned Pretty, Belly finally tells Conrad she loves him aboard what?

A train: after a night of doubt Belly lets Conrad leave for the station, then runs after him and tells him she loves him as it pulls away.

In The Summer I Turned Pretty, Conrad leaves Brown to transfer to which university, where he later studies medicine?

Stanford hangs on one night of cramming: Belly, Jeremiah and the others stay up helping Conrad revise for the Brown finals he must pass to make the move.

What was greenlit on the day the series finale of The Summer I Turned Pretty was released?

A feature film, announced as a surprise at the finale's red-carpet party: Jenny Han, who will direct it, said one more milestone in Belly's story needed a movie.

What summer job does Jeremiah hold at the country club in season 1 of The Summer I Turned Pretty?

Lifeguard duty at the club pool suits Jeremiah, the life of every party: it puts him where all the town's gossip passes through.

Season 1 of The Summer I Turned Pretty was filmed in and around which city?

Wilmington, North Carolina became a summer home for the cast too: its star and her young co-stars moved there early so they could bond like the childhood friends they play.

What delayed the start of filming on season 3 of The Summer I Turned Pretty?

The Hollywood strikes of 2023 cost the show a year: filming was meant to start that summer and finally began in May 2024, so two years separated seasons 2 and 3.

In the season 2 finale of The Summer I Turned Pretty, a storm strands Belly, Conrad and Jeremiah overnight where?

At a motel, sharing one room: while Jeremiah sleeps, Conrad tells Belly he still wants her, she says nothing, and by morning she is kissing Jeremiah outside.

In season 1 of The Summer I Turned Pretty, Belly and Conrad win a charity tournament in which sport?

Volleyball brings a scheme that backfires: Taylor fakes an injury so that Jeremiah can partner Belly, but it is Conrad who ends up playing beside her, and they win.

Which Taylor Swift re-recording debuted in the first trailer for The Summer I Turned Pretty?

This Love (Taylor's Version) had never been heard before the trailer: Swift released the full re-recording the next day, more than a year before the album it belongs to.

How did Jenny Han win Taylor Swift's permission to use her music in The Summer I Turned Pretty?

A handwritten note did it: Han wanted 'The Way I Loved You' for a key season 1 scene, and a music rep on the series suggested she write to Swift herself.

Which Beyoncé song plays as Belly and Jeremiah kiss in the season 2 finale of The Summer I Turned Pretty?

XO plays over the kiss. The song drew protests of its own in 2013: it opens with audio from the Challenger shuttle disaster, which Beyoncé said was meant as a tribute.

Which Swift album re-entered the Billboard 200 top 40 after three of its songs featured in season 1?

'Cruel Summer', 'Lover' and 'False God' were the three tracks.

Where does Cam take Belly on their first date in season 1 of The Summer I Turned Pretty?

A drive-in movie, which Conrad, Jeremiah and Steven promptly crash; Belly angrily sends them away, and Cam drives her home for a second kiss.

In September 2023, season 2 of The Summer I Turned Pretty trailed only which streaming stablemate among women aged 18–34?

The Rings of Power alone ranked higher, and no series had been finished by more of those viewers; the streamer said the show also drove new subscriptions that summer.

Which sport has Conrad abruptly quit when season 1 of The Summer I Turned Pretty begins?

Football was his game: Conrad arrives for the summer having walked away from the team, withdrawn and moody, the first sign that he is carrying a secret.

What does Conrad teach Cleveland Castillo over the summer in season 1 of The Summer I Turned Pretty?

Sailing lessons give Conrad someone to confide in: out on the water with Cleveland he finally breaks down and admits what has been troubling him all summer.

In The Summer I Turned Pretty, Belly's family spends the school year in which city?

Philadelphia is home for the Conklins, who leave it for the coast every summer; season 2 ends with Belly and Jeremiah driving back there together, now a couple.

What is the title of the second book in The Summer I Turned Pretty trilogy?

It's Not Summer Without You went to No. 1 on Amazon's bestseller list when the show arrived in 2022, twelve years after it came out, with its two sister books just behind.

What is the title of the third and final book in The Summer I Turned Pretty trilogy?

We'll Always Have Summer ends with a wedding, but not the one it spends the book planning: Belly's wedding to Jeremiah is called off, and the epilogue has her marry Conrad.

Elsie Fisher, who plays Skye in season 2 of The Summer I Turned Pretty, starred in which coming-of-age film?

Eighth Grade, directed by Bo Burnham, made Fisher a Golden Globe nominee for playing an anxious teenager, but audiences already knew her voice: she had been little Agnes in Despicable Me.

For the TV series, Jenny Han made Belly's mother share her own heritage; what is it?

Korean-American, like Han, the daughter of Korean immigrants: the original book cover showed a white Belly, and Han recast the Conklins for the screen as a mixed-race family.

What trait does the TV Jeremiah have that the book Jeremiah does not?

He is openly bisexual on screen, a change from the novels that the actor who plays him welcomed, saying he was honoured to be part of a change in the industry.

What is the name of the production company Han launched in 2022?

Jenny Kissed Me came with the overall deal she signed two months before the show's premiere: every project she makes under that deal is produced through the company.

Which other Han trilogy was adapted into a Netflix film series?

To All the Boys I've Loved Before was bought for the screen within weeks of publication; its heroine writes letters to her crushes that she never means to send, and they get posted.

Which college do Belly, Jeremiah and Taylor all attend in The Summer I Turned Pretty?

Finch was her school counsellor's suggestion after Belly's grades slipped; Jeremiah was already headed there, and Taylor enrols alongside her.

Kyra Sedgwick, who joins The Summer I Turned Pretty in season 2, won an Emmy for which TNT crime drama?

The Closer ended on Sedgwick's own call after seven seasons; TNT kept the hit going without her by carrying her squad over into a spin-off, Major Crimes.

In the last Summer I Turned Pretty novel, Jeremiah proposes to Belly after she learns he did what?

Cheated on her on a spring-break trip to Cabo, during a brief break-up: Belly overhears it at a frat party, cries for days, then accepts the proposal he offers by way of apology.

In the books, Susannah dies of what between the first and second novels?

Cancer takes Susannah between the two books, yet she keeps steering the story: she leaves letters for the 'summer kids', and Belly's turns up on her wedding day.

In the last Summer I Turned Pretty novel, what does Conrad give Belly, saying it 'always' belonged to her?

His infinity necklace was bought for her sixteenth birthday and never handed over; Belly finds it in his drawer in the second book, and he gives it to her on her wedding day.

In the second Summer I Turned Pretty novel, what does Mr. Fisher try to sell after Susannah's death?

The beach house is saved by a bargain: Laurel gets Mr. Fisher to agree that the boys can keep it if Conrad goes back to college and passes his exams.

Season 1 of The Summer I Turned Pretty builds to which formal event in its finale?

A debutante ball, where Belly's escort Jeremiah vanishes just before the last dance and Conrad steps in to take his place on the floor.

Alfredo Narciso's character Cleveland Castillo has what profession?

Author Cleveland Castillo appears in none of the novels: Jenny Han created him for the show, where Laurel is caught mocking his work in a bookshop while he browses the shelves.