Lara Jean’s wholesome love story is an even more welcome balm in a moment when a global pandemic has sparked hate and xenophobic discrimination against the Asian community. ![]() “Obviously, we’re making a lot of great leaps and bounds, but when I was growing up, you really only saw one specific person being given the opportunity to fall in love on camera, and they were typically white.” It doesn’t have to be what we’re used to in mainstream media,” says Condor, who is Vietnamese. (In conjunction with fellow genre films on the platform, it earned more than 80 million viewers worldwide.) “Anyone can fall in love. ![]() And the fact that it was warmly received by all audiences was even bigger. Premiering two days after Crazy Rich Asians, To All the Boys, which centers on a biracial Korean-American girl as a romantic lead, was a big win for Asian representation on-screen. Play icon The triangle icon that indicates to play By the third movie, Lara Jean and Peter are trying to figure out how (and if) their relationship will survive in college. But, of course, they end up falling for each other instead. “It didn’t make it into the movie and that’s okay.”Īdapted from the best-selling YA books by Jenny Han, the series began with To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before in 2018, introducing Condor as the lovably awkward high schooler and bookworm who fakes a relationship with lacrosse player Peter (Centineo) to make their respective crushes jealous. ![]() And so, I was just beside myself,” she tells. “I was so distraught, because I knew it was the last time that I would be getting to play her. This was her last time playing the beloved protagonist in Netflix’s wildly popular rom-com trilogy, which launched her and her costar Noah Centineo into stardom. The scene was quite simple: Lara Jean shops for character socks for Peter Kavinsky during her family vacation in Seoul. Lana Condor could barely keep it together for her final scene as Lara Jean Covey in To All the Boys: Always and Forever.
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