Lola Tung Is Ready for Her Close-Up in The Summer I Turned Pretty

Lola Tung taped her audition for the lead role in The Summer I Turned Pretty, Isabel “Belly” Conklin, at the suggestion of her new manager. At the time, the freshman Carnegie Mellon acting major was focused on her schoolwork; she hadn’t even read the best-selling Jenny Han book on which the series is based. She couldn’t have imagined that less than a year later, she would be on a Wilmington, North Carolina, set starring as a confident 16-year-old girl coming into her own during her family’s annual beach vacation. “The whole summer of filming was just a learning process,” Tung… Read Full Article