Jonny Marlow
Lana Condor could barely keep it together for her final scene as Lara Jean Covey in
To All the Boys: Always and Forever. The scene was quite simple: Lara Jean shops for character socks for Peter Kavinsky during her family vacation in Seoul. But she was a wreck. 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.
“I was so distraught, because I knew it was the last time that I would be getting to play her. And so, I was just beside myself,” she tells
Lana Condor says goodbye to To All the Boys
16 Feb, 2021 06:00 AM
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Lana Condor said she wanted to show her character stepping into the world as a young woman choosing herself for the first time. Photo / AP
Lana Condor said she wanted to show her character stepping into the world as a young woman choosing herself for the first time. Photo / AP
New York Times
By: Nancy Coleman
The actress discusses being one of the few Asian-Americans to headline a rom-com and pushing to make Lara Jean more independent. The first two films in the Netflix trilogy To All the Boys I ve Loved
Lana Condor Says Goodbye to âTo All the Boysâ
The actress discusses being one of the few Asian-Americans to headline a rom-com and pushing to make Lara Jean more independent.
Lana Condor said she wanted to show her character âstepping into the world as a young woman choosing herself for the first time.âCredit.Ricardo Nagaoka for The New York Times
Feb. 12, 2021
The first two films in the Netflix trilogy âTo All the Boys Iâve Loved Beforeâ pretty much checked every box on the teen rom-com boy-drama bingo card: a boy next door, a boy doomed to be on the losing end of a love triangle and, most important, the boy who helps hatch a fake dating plot that inevitably becomes ⦠not so fake.