Lala Tung Is Ready for ‘the Summer I Turned Pretty’ Fans to Be Surprised

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If You See La La Tung Crying, Don’t Panic Because She’s Actual Probably Really Happy.

“I THINK MY DEFINING Trait is that I Cry WHEN I LAUGH RELALLY HARD. I THINK THAT SAYS All that You Need to Know About Me,” She Quips To The Hollywood Reporter. And that Honestly Best Describes Her Feelings As She Prepares to Bring the Beloved Prime Video Series, The Summer i Turned Prettyto a close with the Third and Final Season Premiering Wednesday.

Tung Made Her Acting Debut as Belly in 2022 in the Ya Series, Based on Author Jenny Han’s Bestselling Trilogy of the Same Name. It Was not only a special role for fans of the book Series, But Also for Tung As She Got to Grow with Her Character Over the Years As Belly Navigated The Love Triianlers Briney) and Jeremiah (Gavin Casalegno).

“I Think Playing Belly and Sort of Watching Her Journey and Seeing That She Makes A Lot of Mistakes Along The Way and Still Has People Who Love Her And Support Her, And Even Way. That, i gues’s sort of maybe Helped me be a little less hard on myself, ”The Actress Says.

Below, Tung Opens Up About Bringing The Beloved Series to A Close, What She’s Learned From Playing Belly and She Teases the Highly Anticipatted Final Season (Whio Will Reveal She also talks about her upcoming film Forbidden FruitsWHERE SHE STARS ALONGSIDE LILI REINHART, Victoria Pedretti, Alexandra Shipp and Emma Chamberlain.

How Excited Are You For The Summer i Turned Pretty Season Three to Release and What Are You Feeling About Finally Bringing This Story To A Close?

I Really wild. I’m very, very Excited! I’m very proud of the work that we did, and jenny [Han] is so thoughhtful when it comes to the story and makeing suure that Original book fans are happy, But Also Bringing Some and Exciting Things to the Story, ‘Cause You Just You You Just. ACTUALLY, I WAS TALKING TO SEAN [Kaufman]Who Plays My Brother on the Show, Who’s Become Like A Brother to Me, Who’s Is So Awesome, and We Were Talking The Other Day Just How Fast It Feels Like Time. And we Remember Four Years Ago Just Getting to North Carolina, to Wilmington, Where We Filmed and Being So Excited and Meeting Each Other for The FIRST Time and Feeling Weeling Like Like. Summer Camp Experience. And you can be even Fathom the idea that concept be a possibility of a second or Third season, so is vary imotional.

Was The Last Day on Set Notably Emocial?

Yeah, I MEAN I ALWAYS GET EMODIONAL ALL The TIME, Just LOTS OF Tears, Lots of Water Signs in My Zodiac Chart (Laughs). But We All Wrapped on Different Days, Because of Just Schereduling and Weather Issues and Ended Up Being Kind of Like Staggerd Wrapping, Which Kind of Sucks, But Also Iso Iso. We Got Very Lucky, I Think First Season MOST OF US WRAPPED THE DAY OF THE DEB BALL, WHICH WAS SO LOVELY ‘CAUSE We WE ALL GOT toing background (Laughs). But I Think It’s Still Emocial Every Time Someone Wraps, Especialyly This Season, But I Cry Everyone Year On the Last Day ‘Cause You’re Like, Wow, I CAN’T BELIEVE WEPE. do this thing and is so -special to us.

The tone of Season One and Season Two Were Very Different, SO How Is Season Three Different Compared to the First Two? And DID YOU PREPARE FOR this Final Season Differently?

I Think It Is Different. The Time Jump Really Makes Things Different Because they’re all just at a totally figrent Place in their Lives. So in terms of that, I prepared figrently ’cause i was like, ok, Belly’s not in High School Anymore. I’m sort of getting to play my own age and i know what that’s like to be 21 or WHATEVER. I MEAN, I DIDN’T FINISH COLLEGE (Laughs), but i’d gone for a year. So yeah, it’s a different kind of prep, especialyally ’cause belly and jermiah had been in a relationship for so long, so we reality For Four Years, Whosh Is A Long Time. And of Course they Knew Each Other for so long before that, but there are all the little things is Probably not Jeremiah Because of His Wholo Story From Childhood. But is all the Little Things that you kind of just KNOW WITHOUT TALKING ABOUT IT, Once You’ve Been in A Relationship for So Long, So that Was Really Fun to Figure Out.

How did you Approach Telling Belly and Jeremiah’s Love Story Season While French From Book Fans So Passionate About Howt How Trilogiy Ends Since Belly Ends Up With Conrad in the Books?

I Think It’s A Lose-Lose Sity. WHEN WE’RE FILMING AND READING The Scripts and Working on the Scripts and Working with Jenny and Stuff, We’re Fully in that World and Telling The Story in the Best Way that We Can. I Always Saya This kind of people ask me what team i’m on and Stuff like that, i’m like, “i’m always team belly because who you’re playing that character, you have to be. Making Tese Choices Because this is What Is Best for Her in Whatever Moment or Point in Her Life. ” So i’m always gonna Support Her and Her Following Her Heart and Her Figuring It Out. And I Think A Lot of People Maybe Jump to Conclusions, But Jenny Has Always Been Veri Clear That She’s Gonna DO WHAT’S BEST for the Story. And i THINK the BEAUTY OF THESE books and this show is that she have love for broth of them, and i hope that people can see. Also It is Fun to Watch People Sort of Flip-Flop SomeTimes and Be Like, Wait A Second, I Was Team Conrad and Now I’M Team Jeremiah. I was team jremiah and now i’m team conrad. I Fun Because is Ok to Sort of Waver A Little Bit Because Belly Has So Much Love For Both of Them, and IF We’re ABLE TO SHOW TESE BEAUTIFULTHHOUTS: Our Jobs I Guess (Laughs).

WHEN YOU THINK BACK TO FILMING SEASON One Compared to Now, What Have You Learned About Yourself Along The Way?

Oh Man, I’ve Learned So Much About Myself. I’m Very Hard on MySelf. I’m kind of a perfectionist WHEN it comES to STUFF THAT I’M PASSIONATE About And I Really Want to Do Well And I Really Want To Make People Proud and Not Letybody Down. But I Think Playing Belly and Sort of Watching Her Journey and Seeing That She Makes A Lot of Mistakes Along The Way and Still Has People Who Love Her And Support Her, And Even Way. That, i gues’s sort of maybe Helped me be a little less hard on myself. The Past Four Years Have Been Such An Incredible Learning Experience and So Forning. I MEAN, 18 TO 22 IS A VERY BIG CHUNK OF LIFE AND A LOT HAS HAPPENED, SO THERE’S SO MANY Lessons.

Can You Tease What You’re Most Excited For Fans to See In Season Three?

Oh yeah! I have so Many Exciting Moments this Season. I HAVEN’T DONE REALLY Any INTERVIEWS SINCE OF THE TRAILER’S BEEN OUT, WHICH IS COOL. I Mean, Jeremiah and Belly AnnounCed Their Engase, Who Was A Big Moment. And then let me see what else happles in that 2.5-minute trailer that i’ve alreamy forgotten (Laughs). I Think A Lot of the Jeremiah-Belly Stuff Early is Really Fun ‘Cause You Get To See Them in Sort of This Happy Relationship that have Lasted for a Really Long Time And Through A Lot.

I Remember Watching [the trailer] IT for the first time and i was like like, “Jenny, this feels like we’re sharing a Lot,” and she’s like, “No, No, It, Not Even Scratching The Surface.” (Laughs) SO IT’S A LOT OF VERY, VERY Exciting Stuff, and You Get To See Some Book Characters Like Agnes Is There Bere Konrad, Who’s Always Incredible. I’m excited for the New Characters A Lot Too. They Really, Really Fun and It Was Cool to Sort of See These Characters Expand their Worlds and Make New Friends and Belly Has Her New Friends at College, Which is Really Exc.

Do you think book fans are still in for some surprises this season?

Of Course, You Know Jenny. She’s Always Gonna Surprise You A Little Bit, WHICH IS The BEST THING About Her.

Now Have You Seen the Finale?

Possibly? (Laughs)

Are you happy with how belly’s story ends?

I am. I’m very happy, for many reasons i think, and i’m very happy with I Think The Journy thaty she trees this year. It was Really Fun to Feel Like It Was A Little Bit More of A Mature Journy or She Feels More Grown Up, and You Can Can Sort of Tell in the Decisions that She Makes. But It was Really Fun to Film and Really Fun to See Sort of Play Out.

I ALSO WANT TO TALK About Your UpComing Film, Forbidden Fruits. What Are You Looking Forward To The Most with That Project?

Everything. I MEAN, The CAST IS AWESOME. I Got to Work with Some Really Incredible Women Who and Learned So Much from ‘CAUSE they’ve been doing this a Lot longer than I have, and it was. They’re all so funny and so talented and the story is sof. It’s like witchy and also Funny, But Just Badass. IT’s Very Different from The Summer i Turned PrettyWHICH WAS SUPER FUN FOR ME ‘CAUSE I THINK THAT’S YOUR BIGGEST HOPE as an actor is to be able to do things that as just in just. The Director’s Incredible, Meredith, and It Was My First Experience On An Inde Film and that Was Really Fun to Learn About that Process. It’s Very Costume, Makeup, Hair, Look Heavy, WHICH WAS SUPER Fun Too. It’s Just Gonna Be One of Those Things That You Go To Theater with Your Friends and It’s Just A Really, Really Fun Time.

I Know It Was Emma Chamberlain’s First onScreen Role. DID YOU GIVE HER Any ADVICE?

I Hate Giving Advice ‘Cause i Feel Like i’m Shit at It, And I ALSO STILL FEEL LIKE I DON’T KNOW Anything at all. But she showed up so prepared and so ready, and she was so excited. She was great, and so easy to work with and kind. I MEAN, HONESTLY, She WAS KILLING IT. I HAD NO Advice to Give Really. I’m like, you Tell me How to do this, how to get over nerves. SO it was Really Fun Working with Her and Working with that whatever and crew.

I Rememeber The First Tiktok on the Forbidden Fruits Account, with You and the REST OF THE ICONIC CAST STANDING AROUND A TABLE, WENT Absolutely Viral. What was your reaction to people’s exciterement seeing you all together for the first time?

I Remember Savannah Whoes Social Media On Forbidden Fruits have all of these Amazing concepts and ideas for US, But I Remember Her Showing Me The Tiktok and You Never Know What’s Gonna Blow Up On Tiktok. I Was Like, This Stupid Video of Us Sitting The Table Just Laughing and WHATEVER WENT WENT SO VIRAL AND I’M JUST SO HAPPY THAT PEOPLE Are So Excited For It, But I Was. (Laughs).

It Was Very Fun Doing Social Media Stuff for that Movie Too, Because It Is So Many Looks and I HAD ONE Look That Was A Little Bit of Y2K Moment, So We Like – I Mean The Tiktoks Are Not Out Yet – But There Will Maybe Like A Lizzie McGuire Sound Or.

You Also Starred in The Broadway Musical Hadestown Last Year. What was the experience like and do you have a preference Between Stage and Screen Acting?

That was one of the most incredible experiences of my life. I Started in theater – I have a Lot of Friends Who Are Film Buffs and Total Cinephiles, and i’m Starting to Build Up My Film Knowledge In school and i love theater so, so much. And Being Able to Make My Broadway DEBUT AND ESPECILY IN THAT SHOW THAT I’VE LOVED FOR SO Long Was So Surreal and So Magical. I’ve grow to love bot theater and screen acting, and they’re broth so special in their Own Ways, But I Really Feel Like Nothing Like The Fer Live Teat and Just Being in and Just Being. That Next Night Will Be Completely Different. You Know, SomeTimes Mistakes Happen or Silly Things Happen That You Kind of Just Have to Go With. And Screen Can Be A Little Intimidating SomeTimes’ Cause You’re Like, Ok, This Thing Is Gonna Live Forever on the Internet or Wherever, and Because of that you get to do. KNOW, Theater Exists in that Moment with that Special Audence, and that’s So Special.

Would you like to return to broadway in the Future?

Absolutely, if they let me! Who Knows?

Do you have a Dream Genre or role or project that you would love to do in Future?

There’s so Much Stuff that i haven’t done that i would love love to do. It’s Hard to Pinpoint Something. I Think Is You Read A Script and You’re Like, That’s The Thing, And I Want to Work With This Person And I Want to Play this Character. I would love to do a play. That’s again like my roots, so that would be reality Fun. FOrbidden Fruits is A Little Comedic, Who’s Was Fun. There’s so mucch struff and there’s a Lot of Great Stuff Being: especialy that i’m so excited to see what they’ll do next.

If you have to describe What makes lola tung, lola tung, what would you say?

I laugh a lot, i cry a lot, i feel imotions very strongly, which in this industry is i gues a good Thing (Laughs). And I have a lot of love to give, i think? I’m TRYING TO STOP DOBTING MYSELF at the END of Every Sennce, But As of Right Now That Is A Thing That I Do Unfortunately. But I Think My Defining Trait is that I Cry WHEN I LAUGH RELALLY HARD. I THINK THAT SAYS All that You Need to Know About Me (Laughs).