“I ended up deciding to work with the only production company that agreed the main character would be played by an Asian actress. 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.”





The film, directed by Susan Johnson from a screenplay penned by Sofia Alvarez, stars Vietnamese-American actress Lana Condor (“X-Men: Apocalypse”) as Lara Jean. In “To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before” Lara Jean writes letters to all of her past loves as a way of getting over them — the letters are meant for her eyes only. But one day they’re sent out and her life is soon thrown into chaos as all the boys confront her one by one.





Han, in her New York Times piece, talked about the importance of seeing someone who looked like her in the stories on screen that she loved. Her teen idols were Alicia Silverstone and Buffy the Vampire Slayer.



