(News article, tilted: Only One Production Company Said They Wouldn’t Whitewash To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before – article by Hunter Harris. Image of Lana Condor. Article text reads: It was important to Jenny Han, author of the YA books To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before, that the film adaption could keep one key detail: that the lead character, Lara Jean, was Asian-American. In a new essay for the New York Times about the movie, rom-coms, and reprsentation, Han reveled was that nearly every production company interested in adapting her best-selling book into a movie asked to whitewash it. “I ended up working with the only production company that agreed the main character would be played by an Asian actress” Han wrote. “No one else was willing to do it. Still, I was holding my breath all the way up until shooting began because I was scared they would change their minds. They didn’t.” Lana Condor, who is Vietnamese-American, starred in the adaptation, produced by Awesomeness Films and Overbrook Entertainment, and released on Netflix.
Next image is of the piece in New York Times. It is reads: My young adult novel, “To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before”, is about a girl who writes secret love letters to boys when she wants to get over them. They’re for her eyes only – except one day they all get sent out. Even before the book came out in 2014, there was intrest in making a movie. But the interest died as soon as I made it clear the lead had to be Asian-American. One producer said to me, as long as the actress captures the spirit of the character, age and race don’t matter. I said well, her spirit is Asian-American. That was the end of it.)
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