The Summer I Turned Pretty’s Gavin Casalegno reacts to being the internet’s “most hated boyfriend”
It is not easy to embody the villain of a much appreciated television program, but The summer when I became pretty Star Gavin Casalegno takes all this in stride. He also wants to remind fans that it is only a character.
While season three of the drama of the extremely popular young adults of Amazon Prime continues, the fans have chosen sides in the disorderly love triangle at the center of the series. Based on the trilogy of Jenny Han’s book of the same name, the story focuses on the Fisher brothers – Conrad (Christopher Briney) and Jeremiah (Casalegno) – who are both in love with Isabel “Belly” Conklin (Lola Tung). Belly is currently engaged to Jeremiah, despite their young age, their disapproval of the mutual family and history describing Jeremiah as an immature fraternity.
For this reason, a large part of the Internet has strongly declared “Team Conrad”, with Jeremiah becoming the ass of each joke and meme. In an episode, Jere pursues an expensive icy wedding cake he insists that they buy, which has now become a viral tiktok sound.
And while Jérémie is a fictitious character, Gavin Casalegno is very real. In a recent interview with The New York TimesThe actor opened up to reading the “most hated boyfriend” of the Internet and how he faces.
“They tend not to love him, yes,” said Casalegno about the base of the fans. “I no longer check Instagram, so I really haven’t seen so much hatred.”
Instead, Casalegno said that he only saw “the memes that are really funny”, graceful of his sister sending them to him.
“I think it is important to understand and realize that it is a fictitious story-and it is not me either,” he continued. “I don’t think there is a single human being in the world that can bring emotional negativity to the extent that this kind of thing happens. And I think that is why Amazon has done a good job to intervene and be like” hey, no intimidation. “However, don’t really well.
He refers to Amazon sharing a declaration on The summer when I became prettyOfficial social media accounts, reminding fans to “keep the conversation to gender this summer”. The account added that they had zero tolerance policy for intimidation and hate speech. And although most of the comments under his personal Instagram accounts were very fun, there are occasionally who sneak. However, Casalegno thinks that the Internet fracture is “quite comical”.
