Amazon has picked up Jenny Han’s first-ever project for adults: a film she sees as a homage to classic, Nora Ephron ’90s romantic comedies, featuring actors of color in the leading roles. 'It’s a New York story about a writer, as many of my stories are'
—Han leveled up her involvement, serving as co-showrunner. The first season followed 16-year-old Belly Conklin through a summer with her family at their friends’ beach house as she navigated confusing feelings for Conrad and Jeremiah Fisher, brothers who finally see her as more than a little kid. Its which-pair-do-you-ship love triangle andinspired passionate tributes and debates—on TikTok, the hashtag #thesummeriturnedpretty has 6.
Han’s snowballing success, she realizes, is unconventional. For a long time, Hollywood preferred to keep authors away from adaptations, fearing they would resist changes to their work. But Han embraces them. She stays engaged by asking herself what she’d do if she were writing these stories from scratch today.
Still, Han understands that some things are sacred. There’s a scene in the second book—and second season—ofthat readers have shorthanded “the cocoa scene.” Belly and Conrad have absconded to the beach house in winter, alone together for the first time in their favorite place. There’s dusty hot chocolate, amug, fluttering nerves, and some very meaningful kissing. Han knows how crucial it was to get that scene right.
Wrangling actors in their late teens and early 20s, Han sometimes feels like a circus ringmaster. Her job is to keep things on track, but also to allow for levity and joy. “I’m like: Everybody stop laughing,” she says, mimicking her serious voice again. “But you need that energy too. You don’t want to dim all the enthusiasm and the effervescence and the fun.” Han rented a boat and took the cast out for a day off, and she hosted them for taco night at her place in New York.
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