Trivia / The Summer I Turned Pretty

• Actor-Shared Background: Belly and Steven Conklin were born to an East Asian mother and white father. Actress Lola Tung and actor Sean Kaufman both have East Asian/white parentage themselves.
• California Doubling: The beach house is in Cousins, Massachusetts, while in the second season Conrad attends Brown University, which is located in Providence, Rhode Island, but both are filmed in North Carolina.
• Dawson Casting: All of the teenage characters are played by actors in their early to mid twenties.
• Fake American: Canadian actress Rachel Blanchard portrays American Susannah.
• God-Created Canon Foreigner:
  • Shayla Wang was created for the show and doesn't exist in the books.
  • Ditto Cleveland Castillo.
  • Season 2 introduces Julia and Skye, who did not exist in the books.
• Self-Adaptation: Jenny Han, who wrote the books this series is based on, also created it.