Guys very excited to have the one and only Lana Condor here. Thank you for joining us
Thank you for having me. Lots going on for you. Yeah, I can see you're glowing I can tell you're excited
Let's talk about this to all the boys I've loved before
coming of age the sort of first love story
You tell me about sort of the idea of this of the whole secret love letters being exposed and all that
Just the prospect of that happening in real life is horrifying to me. It's horrifying
What you tell me, right?
No, I mean I think I would react the same way Lara Jean does like just straight denial like no this isn't happening to me
But yeah, it's a horrifying
Thought I'm glad this hopefully will never happen to me and I actually went watch this video on YouTube the other day where her
Some girl but this actually happened too and it was very rough for her. Do you actually have some stash of love letters somewhere?
No, okay, so it's but I have like multiple journals. So, okay anyone gets those, I"m done for.
You'll never see me again
It's like I've never yeah, I've always it's the lost art of journaling I guess and I know it's therapeutic but my gosh
How risky I've never done any more. Yeah
Everyone has this first love ton of crushes from back in the day. I think back to mine and it was just glorious time
What's sort of I don't know high school memories or feelings come flooding back when you first even read the script
actually, you know the feeling of isolation it's like because everyone in high school has a moment where they feel like they don't belong and
they don't fit in and so when I read the script doesn't yup me that's me
Like in high school I I tried to keep to myself for the most part
So what are you biggest and maybe that's a the most similar things you have about from you and your character Lara Jean
What do you relate to that's that I think that's that feeling of some not being in the right place at the right time
Sometimes and but also I think she lives in her own head like in an own world like a fantasy experience
And I do it all the time. Like my friends will tell you I'm not 100 percent here. Like I'm always like living somewhere else
But that that I can relate to a lot. So, all right, so Lara's older sister played by Janel Parrish
I was telling you she was just here a couple weeks ago
Have you guys stayed close since filming? Yes is that possible to do? I mean, I stayed close since filming it possible to do and actually it yeah
Believe it or not it is and I know people say that but yeah, we talk all the time
We're constantly texting we call each other sister
Well, I would I was gonna ask if she's sort of taken on and continued real sister duty
she really has like mentor type or some sort of like camaraderie between you absolutely I mean she is such
A professional and so and she's been doing this for so long that
I feel that she is kind of taking me under her wing and kind of giving me advice, you know as
Like a new actress so that's been amazing
and I really that's actually one of the greatest things I took away from the project was meeting the people and
Staying in touch with them. It's really cool
Yeah, Janel has obviously she's got this massive fan base and has dealt with you know
Dealing with the online crowd and the haters and the lovers and everything else
Was there a piece of advice that really stuck with you or something that you feel like you're taking?
Actually, we were just talking about that. She said don't read like don't read your comments don't like watch like
Reviews and things like that, which is important, but it's also hard not to because once you go down that hole you're not coming back
Especially early on with the new project whatever it's kind of like what are people thinking
yeah, but but I guess that would really fight against you being genuinely yourself right those other voices start getting in your head and you
Start altering who you are. It's funny because for the most part I've been very lucky that everyone is so positive
Yeah, but if there's that one iffy comment it out of like a hundred it ruins everything right just one comment, and that's unfortunate
Yeah, you gotta learn to deal and I don't envy that
This level my goodness your main love interest in the movie. Noah Centineo, right? Uh-huh. Did I say that right? Centineo.
But I also have questions because I've heard it different ways and I never ask him. Oh
How about this your main love interest in the movie is Noah
You guys had this great chemistry. You got a little steamy scene
How do you approach that? I want to say the awkward stuff or is it awkward?
It's not I mean, you know
I think it could be but Noah and I clicked instantly and we had a lot of chemistry from day one
And so actually he tried to approach me during pre reads
He's like you want to read lines to me
And I said no and then when I realized we were gonna be this a movie together
I was like, oh no. Oh
But we actually have really wonderful chemistry and we spent so much time with each other off of like out of work
That and we actually like we went to the hot tub all the time like in our apartments and stuff
So it was the transition was super easy to bring that to camera. So I I
Was so blessed to have worked with him. He's a wonderful guy. I will just say this
I have only known you for a few moments
I love many things about you. You love hot tubs has just put you in a new level for me
I'm also a huge hot tub guy and there are people who think that's that they just hate hot tubs
Well, how can a person hate a hot tub?
How do you not want to just like soak?
Like and like feel your muscles relaxed the most relaxing experience almost euphoric in the world
Maybe they've had bad hot tub experiences with people in it. Like maybe that it maybe it's not the tub itself
It's the people they look at a nasty apartment complex. I didn't clean it exactly they feel like they're all that way
No, they're not. They're great. How about we go on to this you said in another interview here. There we go
There can be a little weird for you and your boyfriend Anthony to watch each other in scenes with on-screen love interests
How do you navigate that?
Because that's always I think from an out that person it's not an actor. It's always the kind of thing like
You know, I think
We've gotten so much better at it and you start to realize that it's just a job, you know
And it's a weird thing that part of my job is to make out with straight like, you know, not my boyfriend
sorry, baby, but sorry but
actually
We've actually we deal with it really actually in a very healthy way
especially now cuz with this whole like press and everything in the movie coming out like he's just really supportive so he just wants to
See it do well and he's like listen, I think Noah and you are cute as well. So
Right. Yeah. Yeah, and again like you said all of a sudden it's this really legit thing
That's this all this press all this attention. It's not like you're just doing some acting class on the side like oh I got a right
For the craft being in the spotlight. Look it has the ups and downs. You're quickly becoming this household name. Has it made for more
Difficulty in terms of just maintaining normal life normal dating relationship normal day-to-day
You know
Not really. I think it's it's funny cuz we've you ever like so like you're kind of getting like famous and I'm like no
No, that's not it
Like I go home and I I like try my best to pay rent and like try to take sales and everything like that
And it's not hard cuz you know working is only you only work for a couple months and then you go back to your real
Life and you're unemployed again
You're trying to get another job and then you only do these press experiences like once a year or something like that
So now I feel really really a hot stuff
But when I go home, it's gonna be like normal and my parents are still gonna be like, hey did you pay your bills
I've got to make breakfast just like normal stuff
It's kind of interesting to imagine and then I would imagine as an actor
There will be a tipping point where all of a sudden it's like
Oh now I'm not going in to read for stuff like they're just calling saying like what are you for this and we already know?
And that's how you know, you've made it. Not there yet. That's the next level there.
It's coming. I read that Jenny Han the author up to all the boys
I loved before posted a photo of you on her Instagram
It was like two years ago or something saying that she's super happy to see a young Asian women kickin it in Hollywood
That was her the way she put it when you were going out for the part
Did you have an inkling that you had it in the bag or did you did you feel that you were you aware of her?
since I was aware of that post because I was doing x-men at the time and I was like
Who is this amazing woman? And then I saw she was an author and I was really excited
She post that photo of me
But I did not ever think that I was gonna be fortunate enough to get this role
Just because it's it was such a dream for me and I didn't know that it was attainable
so I never thought I had it in the bag and then I
even when I was working
I didn't think I had it in the bag it still it's now that like I'm out here doing this and I'm like, okay
I can't get fired now, you know like nothing's real in Hollywood till it happened yesterday
And in terms of diversity and seeing progress in that way where we seem to be seeing it more and more
But what do you think? Where do you think we're at?
What do you think still needs to be done in terms of diversity in Hollywood?
I think you know I really do think we're making steps and I think the move this movie and like Crazy Rich Asians
And all these all these amazing movies that feature
leading Asian Americans that is proof in itself that Hollywood is making
Moves and we're trying to become more progressive
But I do think that it's kind of up to the writers a lot of the time, you know
I think there's still a lot of work to be done where you don't write
Stereotypical roles just because out of convenience or that's just all that we know
So I think I think I hope writers will kind of start to change a little bit. Yeah, they
See us. Yeah that makes a lot of sense
And and yeah, the progress has been made a lot of work still to be done
You are busy with other things as well. Sci-fi deadly class. Yes, I hear how excited are you for that? I'm so excited
I'm actually going to LA for the premiere of to all the boys
I've loved before and then the very next day going to shoot go ahead shoot deadly class. Yeah, but it's really amazing
It's a it's a vastly different from to all the boys about school for assassins. So what kind of role do you have?
I mean I play an assassin. Okay. Yeah, I have like tattoos. There's everything in short hair. It's amazing
by the way
I think one of the coolest parts about taking a project like that would be the temporary tattoos. It is
Right like you get you can get the look and feel and then you can wipe it all away
Yes, an fx actually told me oh my god, you look really good tattoos. You should get these sleeves for real
I told my mom I was like mom
Everyone says I should get sleeves for real like over my dead body. Not happening
Do you have any choice and what the tattoos look like or is that
Okay, it's beautiful its Japanese artwork
Oh and it's like a lot of waves and beautiful orchids and Dragons and snakes and all these things Wow
Yeah, it's amazing. And do you have to do like stunts and stuff or is that and then weaponry and things like that?
Absolutely. Yeah, so I body is broken. I've been training for it and I can't move but
Yeah, we also on the show. We're working with amazing stunt coordinators and our stunt doubles are awesome as well
But I try to do as much as I can, you know for believability, but what kind of train do you do?
Is it like just at a regular gym, or is it at some special?
Ranges, they actually train us like oh god. I'm actually so scared because now I'm going up to shoot it
I know my body. I know my body I'm gonna die, but they train us really intensely at work
Yeah
We go in and they and they teach us
like all types of fighting we choreograph our fights and choreograph all the stunts and the kicks and everything's do you feel
Like more more strong and like prepared walk in the streets of New York. Fosho. Like I
Wish somebody that me know. I was like come at me wait don't come at me
I'm hurting right now. But in like a week when I get over the training exactly but you know, it's amazing
It's awesome to know how to protect yourself. Yeah, awesome. Wow. It's so good to talk to you. Wonderful to talk to you
Yeah Congrats on everything to all the boys I've loved before hits Netflix on Friday
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