“I want to. I want it to be with you.”
And with those 10 words, The Summer I Turned Pretty‘s whole trajectory altered as the choice for Belly (Lola Tung) to lose her virginity to Conrad (Christopher Briney) significant among the Amazon Prime Video television series’ greatest departures from Jenny Han’ s books.
While the set likewise staged a secret check out to Cousins throughout Christmastime on the page, Belly and Conrad did not make love. But in the 2nd episode, it’s exposed that the couple make love for the very first time in front of the fireplace. “Conrad, it’s only you,” she informs a sleeping Conrad after. “There’s only ever been you.” Of course, this makes their relationship– which never ever reached the main difference of partner and sweetheart in the book, like it does onscreen– far more major and their ultimate separation even more disastrous.
“That was a big change from the books,” Christopher informed E! News’ Erin Lim of the sex scene. “It definitely caught me off guard.”
