‘The Summer season I Turned Fairly’ Mothers on Season 3 Finale, Attainable Prequel

[This story contains major spoilers from the series finale of The Summer I Turned Pretty, titled “At Last.”]

Amid Stomach (Lola Tung), Conrad (Christopher Briney) and Jeremiah’s (Gavin Casalegno) love triangle drama all through Prime Video‘s The Summer season I Turned Fairly, Rachel Blanchard believes Susannah “didn’t imply to trigger this sort of chaos.”

Earlier than Conrad and Jeremiah’s mother, Susannah, died of most cancers between seasons one and two, she was all the time secretly hoping Stomach, the daughter of her finest buddy Laurel (Jack Chung), would find yourself with considered one of her sons. However what she didn’t know was the strain it was truly placing on Stomach, as revealed within the season three finale earlier than Conrad and Stomach in the end find yourself collectively.

“She in all probability noticed one thing in each of them, and I feel it was a little bit of fantasy for her. But when she knew the chaos that may ensue and the harm, she would have mentioned it otherwise, I feel,” Blanchard says.

Regardless of all of the messiness after her loss of life — from Laurel and Stomach fights, and Conrad withholding his true emotions for Stomach, to Jeremiah and Stomach turning into codependent on one another of their relationship and speeding to get married — all of them matured all through the ultimate season and ultimately, all discovered readability as people and with love.

Beneath, Chung and Blanchard unpack the drama-filled third and remaining season, their ideas on the present’s ending, if Laurel would truly be open to happening a single’s cruise and their ideas on a possible prequel with their characters.

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How does it really feel to see the sequence come to an finish after spending so a few years together with your characters?

JACKIE CHUNG I really feel very fortunate that we’re capable of be right here in Paris and watch it collectively, not solely with an viewers, however with one another. As a result of I feel after I spoke to you [previously], folks would ask me, “How did you are feeling?” I ould say it doesn’t really feel over. I’m nonetheless seeing everybody. I haven’t seen all of the episodes. I nonetheless need to expertise these, and now this seems like a finale; it feels extra full. 

RACHEL BLANCHARD A extremely particular finale. I’ve by no means had a screening for the final episode of something, not to mention in Paris and being along with everybody, so it feels actually particular. 

Jackie, why do you assume Conrad was capable of persuade Laurel to return to the marriage, however she immediately shut Jeremiah down when he got here earlier to ask her with Stomach?

CHUNG A part of it was as a result of I feel they do have an in depth relationship and he or she actually does worth his ideas and opinions, as a result of they assume equally. He’s not impulsive, he’s very considerate and measured as she is, however I additionally assume when Jeremiah and Stomach got here to her, it was nonetheless so contemporary. Stomach was nonetheless in the home. By the point she talked to Conrad, as she mentions within the scene, everyone else has turned. John was a fast one and Steven was additionally a fast one (laughs). I feel she was feeling the lack of Stomach in her house and in her life, and extra time had handed. I feel she was hopeful she would come round, and he or she didn’t. So I feel he got here at an vital second and was capable of simply push her additional to the opposite facet. 

Rachel, realizing Susannah knew the way in which Conrad felt about Stomach, what do you assume she would have thought of Stomach and Jeremiah’s relationship?

BLANCHARD I feel she would have thought they had been too younger to get married. However I feel Susannah would have been supportive of no matter her youngsters and Stomach wished to discover. I don’t assume she was set on Conrad in any respect prices. 

There’s little doubt Susannah would have hated seeing Conrad and Jeremiah battle, so what do you assume she would have considered their confrontation, which became a decision, at her grave in season three?

BLANCHARD I feel she would have been so upset. She didn’t imply to trigger this sort of chaos and fracture of their relationship. All I feel she ever wished was everybody to look out for one another, and perhaps her message received a bit misconstrued and brought a bit too severely. 

Jackie, why do you assume Laurel hasn’t gone to go to Stomach in Paris? Particularly since she stayed longer than Laurel was anticipating, and it’s clear she misses her daughter.

CHUNG I think about they’ve spoken. They’re shut sufficient that Stomach’s in all probability given her updates. If it had been as much as me, I might have been there (laughs). However by way of the story, Stomach wanted this time to find who she is and to discover this Parisian model of herself, and actually come into her personal. I feel it was vital for her to be on her personal with out her mother voicing some opinions in her ear. 

I’ve to ask your ideas, Jackie, on followers saying Stomach received a Laurel bob within the finale?

CHUNG I didn’t hear that (laughs). No method! She appeared so cute, however she might have any haircut and look so cute. She’s so stunning. Laurel can be like, “Twinsies!” After which Stomach can be like, “Ugh. I’m going to vary it.” 

Rachel, since Susannah has solely been seen in flashbacks since season one, was it laborious enjoying this character that’s basically nonetheless the glue that brings everybody collectively, however now as a reminiscence?

BLANCHARD I knew it was going to be like that as a result of it’s based mostly on the books. But it surely wasn’t laborious. It was simply actually enjoyable. For some time I used to be simply doing dying scenes and people received unhappy and are fairly heavy. So regardless that I actually loved doing it, they had been fascinating scenes to do. I additionally actually beloved doing the scene on the bar [in season one.]  

Do you assume it was unsuitable for Susannah to push for Stomach to be with considered one of her sons? Particularly since viewers be taught within the finale that this has been an inside worry for Stomach.

BLANCHARD I don’t know if Susannah knew they had been deciphering it as strain. If she had recognized that, she would have perhaps expressed it otherwise. She in all probability noticed one thing in each of them, and I feel it was a little bit of fantasy for her. But when she knew the chaos that may ensue and the harm, she would have mentioned it otherwise, I feel. However I additionally assume she’d be completely satisfied they ended up collectively, however provided that they each actually wished it. She didn’t need it in any respect prices. 

In episode 10, followers began to panic when Stomach’s dad, John, had some heartburn, main them to theorize that he could have a coronary heart assault within the sequence finale as a cause for Stomach to return house. Did you all see these theories, and if that’s the case, what did you make of them?

CHUNG We did see and listen to about these. It by no means crossed my thoughts in any respect. I feel it’s so superb that followers are so invested and in addition that they need to know so badly what’s gonna occur within the story that they’re simply so open to creating theories, however that was a really surprising one. 

Within the finale, it looks like Laurel is on good phrases with John and Adam. Since she’s now an empty nester, what do you see subsequent for Laurel? Possibly she’ll truly go on that singles cruise Adam prompt?

CHUNG I don’t know if Laura would go on that singles cruise (Laughs), however I feel she is open to exploring totally different relationships and constructing in all probability new friendships, not simply romantic relationships, and hopefully extra skilled targets for herself. She has a lot room to develop even at this age and stage of her life. And the three of them, they’ve been in a household already for many years, so they may all the time be household. They do battle and bicker and so they know the annoying issues that every of the opposite one does, however there may be all the time going to be a closeness between the three, and I feel they will have a great time collectively typically. 

Possibly the Summer season I Turned Fairly film ought to simply comply with them on this singles cruise.

CHUNG I truly would like to see a film of the singles cruise. 

BLANCHARD Sure! That will be actually humorous. 

With this newly introduced film to wrap up the story, what have you learnt about that thus far?

BLANCHARD I don’t know something about it, however we’re enthusiastic about it.  

CHUNG Yeah, we simply know that it’s occurring, however we don’t know every other particulars. 

Do you know in regards to the film going into filming for season three?

BLANCHARD I’d heard rumors, however you’ll be able to by no means put inventory in rumors as a result of there are such a lot of on a regular basis. So yesterday was the primary time that I formally heard. 

CHUNG Yeah, that it was occurring for positive.

Do you assume followers can count on to see Stomach reunited with Laurel and her household since we didn’t get that within the season three finale?

CHUNG I might like to see Stomach reunited along with her household. I do know we noticed Laurel and Jeremiah make up and join, however I’d like to see extra of them too. I really feel like everybody thinks Laurel skews extra Conrad, however she actually does really feel near each of them. 

BLANCHARD And I’m so curious to see what occurs within the wake of all the pieces, however then it might even be enjoyable to see, like in season one after we had been all collectively in flashbacks, what introduced them to the place they’re, however among the enjoyable stuff.  

CHUNG A full household dynamic can be pretty to see. 

Jackie, with Laurel realizing all the pieces Stomach has gone by with love, what do you assume her response was to studying she and Conrad received again collectively?

CHUNG She can be half stunned and half realizing. However nonetheless holding agency to her perception that Stomach ought to take her time. She ought to see if that is certainly the precise relationship. She ought to pursue her research and her profession, after which see the way it performs out. 

What are your ideas on a prequel sequence together with your characters that I do know followers have prompt? And who would you need to play your youthful selves?

BLANCHARD I feel it might be actually enjoyable to see after they first met, so I’d like to see a prequel. I believed Maddie Ziegler after which somebody additionally talked about Elle Fanning. 

CHUNG And I just lately noticed Possibly Joyful Ending, so I used to be pondering perhaps Helen J. Shen from that [Broadway] present. I feel she’s fairly good. 

What would you hope to see explored together with your youthful characters in a possible prequel?

CHUNG I feel it’d be fascinating to see how Laurel determined to turn out to be a author. Clearly, how she met everybody in her life, all these vital relationships. There’s point out of John and the basement marriage ceremony (Laughs). I might like to see that. 

BLANCHARD I’d like to see the place [Susannah] was along with her artwork and the choice to let that go for a short while, and actually the start of our friendship. 

CHUNG That and the kinds. I’d wish to see the wardrobe. 

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