EXCLUSIVE: On April 27, cameras are set to start rolling in Wilmington, NC on The Summer I Turned Pretty, the movie followup to the wildly popular Prime Video series. But as Belly (Lola Tung), Conrad (Christopher Briney), Jeremiah (Gavin Casalegno) and the rest of the gang return to the picturesque Cousins Beach, they will do so with a salary issue involving the franchise’s young cast simmering in the background.
Television is known for creating stars, and there is no area where that is more pronounced than YA series which, by nature, feature largely newcomers and up-and-comers with few or no prior major acting credits. The upside could be enormous as the genre has produced a slew of stars; recent examples include Millie Bobbie Brown, Joseph Quinn and Sadie Sink of Stranger Things and Aimee Lou Wood, Emma Mackey and Ncuti Gatwa of Sex Education.
But young actors having
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