To All the Boys I've Loved Before

He scrunched down so the camera would let him stand next to her

The first rumor around To All the Boys I've Loved Before was not a dating leak. It was a camera test. Lana Condor told the 2018 Vulture Festival that after she and Noah Centineo were already cast as Lara Jean and Peter Kavinsky, she did not even make it into the same frame with him. Producers had not clocked how tall he was. "When we went into a camera test, after we'd already been cast, I didn't make it into a frame with him, because he's that much taller than me. I heard the producers were like, 'What is happening?'" Later Noah told her he had stood behind her during chemistry reads and folded himself shorter. "It's sweet, that's how much he wanted the job." Costume put her in platform boots. latestnetflix.com's view is that Those combat boots in the diner scene are a height cheat.

Director Susan Johnson had a second problem. She liked Israel Broussard and she liked Noah, and she was not sure who should be Josh, the boy next door, and who should be Peter. "I initially was thinking of Noah for Josh, because I thought, 'Oh, he seems like boy next door,' but then once I saw Lana and Noah's chemistry I knew we had to go that direction." Israel stayed Josh. Noah stayed Peter. The internet never recovered.

Lana had already almost blown the read. She was so locked on the role that she barely said hello to Noah at a pre-read, then found him at the bottom of her chemistry list. She booked it anyway. Months later she told Jimmy Fallon she "felt something" after hot yoga and pizza at his apartment, then shut it down out loud. "Noah, it's not going to happen between us." They wrote their own contract, the same gag their characters use on screen. "I felt that for the show to do well, we had to be best-friend professionals." Treat that as her account, not a secret relationship. She was already with Anthony De La Torre.

Hollywood tried to bleach Lara Jean first

Jenny Han had spent years fighting a different rumor, the one where a studio wanted a white girl in the closet with the letters. She told Teen Vogue that early on, "the same thing happened" that happened to Crazy Rich Asians, and that the alarming part was people who did not see why it mattered. She held the line. Overbrook optioned the book in 2014. Lana was announced in July 2017. They shot Vancouver as Portland from July 5 to August 4, 2017, including Point Grey Secondary. Netflix bought the finished film in March 2018 and dropped it on August 17. Rotten Tomatoes sat at 96 percent.

Kitty's red hair almost got dyed so the sisters would match. Anna Cathcart's mother said no. Jenny Han popped up as a homecoming chaperone. A crew photo of Lana and Noah asleep on a green-room couch became Lara Jean's lock screen, because they actually napped like that. The Yakult bottle Kitty hands Peter moved product. None of that is the plot. The plot is five letters leaving a closet. The gossip is a tall guy folding himself in half so a camera would let him stand next to her, then almost getting cast as the other boy.