Lola Tung and Gavin Casalegno in The Summer I Turned Pretty

We’re in the thick of a long, hot summer, and that can only mean one thing: The Summer I Turned Pretty is back.

The romantic drama stars Lola Tung, Christopher Briney and Gavin Casalegno in the TV adaptation of Jenny Han’s much-loved young adult novel series, as protagonist Belly Conklin is torn between her head and her heart while trying to decide which of the Fisher brothers is her true love: Conrad or Jeremiah.

In case you hadn’t heard, the third season is set to be the concluding chapter to the series, with the first two episodes premiering back in mid-July.

But if those waits between episodes are already getting to you, now is a perfect time to dive into the behind-the-scenes secrets of the show to make summer last that little bit longer…

The Summer I Turned Pretty is Lola Tung’s first professional gig

Talk about a dream first day at work, hey?

Quite amazingly, The Summer I Turned Pretty is Lola Tung’s first ever professional acting gig. She got the opportunity to audition during her first year of college, revealing to BuzzFeed that the process all started over video call.

“The audition process was entirely over Zoom, which was very interesting. But it’s also all I’ve really known,” Lola shared. “I was at school at the time, in my first year at Carnegie Mellon in Pittsburgh, and so I was Zooming in after classes for my chemistry reads.”

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The Fisher family beach house is a real location in North Carolina

We don’t always know with high production TV shows if the sets are real or constructed specifically for shooting, but it turns out the Fisher family beach house in Cousins is very real.

While we know Cousins is a fictional place created for the books, the summer estate itself is situated at the Porters Neck Plantation, a private golf course community in Wilmington, North Carolina.

However, it was only used for the exterior shots, with the indoor scenes being filmed at a studio. Location manager Lindsay Fort told

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