Does that mean actors who have appeared in the franchise in the past won't be able to return? That's the big question right now, but it seems likely they will want a fresh start. Marvel Studios head Kevin Feige has confirmed that an X-Men reboot is in the cards. That means, the mutants will be joining the MCU, but it's not yet clear how the studio plans to accomplish that, or when it will happen. Last year, Disney purchased most of Fox's media assets in a landmark $71.3 billion deal, which put the rights to the X-Men, as well as Deadpool and the Fantastic Four, in the hands of Marvel Studios. She's a fantastic character and now I think is the perfect time to give her what she deserves, so I would love to go back and do something with her."įox previously owned the rights to the X-Men franchise. “You shouldn’t let anyone, or pop culture, influence you or make you do something that you don’t want to do."I think that now is a really good time and I would really like to do her justice because she didn't have it five years ago and I don't think ever has. “Whatever you choose to do with your body and with your heart with your mind should be your choice and your choice only,” she tells her army of young fans. The films’ careful chasteness and consent-awareness is key to their success, and Condor is an exemplary spokesperson. Stormy gives Lara Jean an eveningwear makeover and tells her: “The way you look should be against the law.” She also tells her: “Almost every one” of her own love affairs overlapped.Īny overlap in PS is a lot less torrid than one suspects Stormy’s were. In fact, the franchise continues the story in a lovely, ambling fashion – with crucial scenes set in the glam retirement complex that is home to Stormy (Holland Taylor), Lara Jean’s eccentric older confidante. “I wanted it to be realistic that she had a hard time telling Peter what was going on, but I didn’t want her to be unlikable.” She wails down the phone, imitating a screaming fit: “I didn’t want her to be like that, but also I knew Jenny Han wasn’t going to write characters that were toxic.” “You see in this movie that Lara Jean is flawed she’s trying to figure out how to communicate these intense feelings,” she explains. Did Condor ever worry that their unrelentingly gentle franchise could dissolve into a meninist tug of war? No, she says: rather, she was wary of her character becoming a villain. PS: I Still Love You, Lara Jean and Peter’s romance is tested when her middle-school flame arrives in town. “The greatest part of this whole experience has been people coming up to me and saying that they felt represented and seen, and then sharing their own experiences and their own stories with me.” What she wants, she adds, is to be “seen and to be understood”.Īs for the sequel. Has she ever felt pressured to represent America’s east Asian community more widely? “No, I knew what I was going into,” she says firmly. Today, she sponsors a programme for Vietnamese girls’ education, which she says is the most important thing she has achieved to date. Whatever you choose to do with your body and with your heart with your mind should be your choice and your choice only Lana Condor Born in Vietnam’s fourth-largest city, Cần Thơ, Condor was adopted by an American family – her father is a Pulitzer-prize nominated journalist – after five months in an orphanage. Condor is Vietnamese-American and plays a character with Korean and American parentage. While race does not define the films, it might explain in part why To All the Boys and its sequel feel like more than the sum of their parts. The world, she says, can be “pretty dark and scary … no matter how much of a cold heart you have, people still want to watch people fall in love.” To All the Boys, says Condor, is about “good characters, who have good hearts”. What might, superficially, seem like low stakes – why has my boyfriend given his ex my scrunchie? – are treated seriously. It is safe and sweet rather than energetically sassy. Adapted from Jenny Han’s hit young-adult trilogy and evoking the likes of 10 Things I Hate About You and Clueless, To All the Boys embraces romance and an air of mayhem, without trying too hard to dismantle the cliches.
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