How ‘Summer I Turned Pretty’ Season 2 Mirrors ‘Pride and Prejudice’

The Summer I Turned Pretty followers couldn’t assist however discover a candy connection between Belly and Conrad’s relationship and that iconic Pride and Prejudice second.

An eagle-eyed viewer identified through TikTok that the season 2 premiere, which began streaming on Thursday, July 13, confirmed Conrad (Christopher Briney) flexing his hand whereas parting methods with Belly (Lola Tung) after they addressed their emotions for one another.

Showrunner and creator of The Summer I Turned Pretty ebook collection, Jenny Han, replied within the feedback part, writing, “Y’all are quick ☺️.”

The scene took inspiration from the 2005 iteration of Pride & Prejudice the place Mr. Darcy’s (Matthew Macfadyen) hand gently grazes Elizabeth Bennet’s (Keira Knightley) in passing earlier than he tries to shake off the highly effective second.

Belly and Conrad’s romance has already left its personal mark as The Summer I Turned Pretty continues to launch new episodes. After Belly and Conrad lastly shared a kiss within the season 1 finale, the hit Prime Video collection picked up precisely the place they left off.

The pair, nevertheless, discover themselves dealing with loads of obstacles on their solution to a fortunately ever after. Conrad’s choice to maintain his distance from Belly created the preliminary roadblock — however it was his brother, Jeremiah (Gavin Casalegno), who additional sophisticated the state of affairs. Although Belly beforehand confirmed curiosity in Jeremiah, she in the end let him down in favor of Conrad.

After the collection returned on Thursday, Briney, 25, opened up in regards to the challenges of moving into Conrad’s new headspace.

“It was really fun to explore this different Conrad, because it’s a weird thing. It’s a character that I’ve explored for a whole season, I had a whole summer last year with the same character. And then you come back to this same character that is in a lot of ways, very different,” he informed Entertainment Weekly on Friday, July 14. “And so to step back into those shoes and feel a little wobbly and be hurting people in different ways and not knowing how to take care of yourself in other ways, It’s a fun challenge to try and balance all these aspects and keep a character grounded and defend the things they do and fight for them.”

The actor went on to say that he doesn’t all the time agree with the alternatives Conrad makes, including, “It’s sometimes hard to defend, but gradually and step by step, I would whittle my way down and defend each one of them within the world of it and forgive him for it in my own mind. It’s fun to do that as an actor, and play a character who’s being a jerk, because I’d like to think it’s outside of my realm of existence — it’s outside of Chris. So to be able to play that unapologetically is really fun.”

Tung, 20, for her half, praised Briney for serving to her deliver Belly and Conrad’s emotional love story to life.

“Working with Chris, he just made it so easy to be in the scene and to discover new things every time we would run the scene. We would do a take and try it different ways and try to stay in that very emotional head space for as long as we could,” she added. “But it was definitely a lot. I don’t know if there’s really one certain way to ever get through it without being affected in some way because it’s a lot of an emotional toll on yourself. But I was really glad that we got to do those really big important moments together.”

Meanwhile, Casalegno, 23, beforehand teased the “emotional walls” Jeremiah would have up all through season 2.

“I think all of season 1 and even season 2, you get so much of Belly’s inner dialogue. You get so much of her thoughts and you’re able to love Belly because of it,” he completely informed Us Weekly final month. “For Jeremiah, it’s the same. I feel like people are going relate to him and understand him better and really get to love the person he is because he has such a big heart for everyone around him.”

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The Summer I Turned Pretty episodes can be found to stream on Prime Video Fridays.