This article contains spoilers for The Summer I Turned Pretty season 3 finale, “At Last.”
The Summer I Turned Pretty went to extreme lengths to keep the final season’s secrets under wraps.
Creator Jenny Han confirms to Entertainment Weekly that her Prime Video series did, in fact, film fake scenes with stars Lola Tung and Gavin Casalegno reuniting as Belly and Jeremiah in Paris with the intention of being spotted. She actually wanted fans and paparazzi releasing footage of it on social media to inspire incorrect theories about the final season’s plot.
“We did have Gavin come out so that we could have some stuff with him in Paris, just because I like to keep surprises for the audience,” Han tells Entertainment Weekly on Thursday at the Shangri-La Hotel in Paris. “That’s really hard in this day and age. As movies get filmed, people see the whole movie, and I think it takes away from some of the excitement around it when you have all these spoilers. So that was my way of trying to protect the story for the audience.”
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Dedicated fans immediately began circulating videos online of Tung and Casalegno filming scenes together in Paris, which would have been a huge departure from the books since Jeremiah never visits Belly while she’s abroad. In fact, the two never actually interact again in We’ll Always Have Summer, upon which the third season is based, after they cancel their wedding. That’s why many Team Jeremiah fans were convinced that Han changed the ending of the story for the show, hoping that Belly wouldn’t end up with Conrad (Christopher Briney) after all.
Of course, that’s not at all what happened: Belly and Conrad got back together in the finale, and Jeremiah actually seemed okay with that. So the fake scenes accomplished exactly what they needed to, and Casalegno was more than happy to play his part in the subterfuge.
“They were like, ‘Hey, we’re going to fly you out to Paris and you’re going to film some scenes,'” Casalegno tells EW. “I was like, ‘I don’t know why, but sure. I’m down.’ I got to spend like a week or two out in Paris, which is not bad at all. I really enjoyed it.”
The actor reveals they filmed multiple fake scenes, although only one — where Jeremiah ran up to Belly on a sidewalk to give her a huge hug — truly went viral.
“Obviously they weren’t in the episodes, but it was kind of fun to do that and see people leaning out of their balconies recording it,” Casalegno says. “Because I was like, ‘They’re never going to see this,'” he adds with a laugh. “It was cool. I felt like a CIA agent or something.”
Han says that they didn’t actually write new scenes for the occasion — they just added onto actual scenes while filming for convenience. They didn’t even come up with dialogue, because the lines would never be heard.
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To that point, Casalegno says, “If you really pay attention, a lot of the scenes that we filmed were actually scenes that were already in episode 10, like with the suitcase and the running and different things like that. If you were really nitpicking the situation, you probably would’ve seen that it was for episode 10 and not [the finale], but it was fun to play.”
Ultimately, Han is grateful that Casalegno was down to help trick the fans to keep the true final season developments secret. “It was very fortunate that Gavin was able to come out and do that for us,” Han says. “But it was just for that purpose.”
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