The Summer I Turned Pretty star Gavin Casalegno has damaged his silence on the widespread hate directed at his character, Jeremiah Fisher
“They have an inclination to dislike him, sure. I don’t examine Instagram anymore, so I actually haven’t seen that a lot hate,” Casalegno, 25, informed The New York Times in an interview revealed on Thursday, August 21. “The one factor that I see is my sister sending me the memes which are actually humorous. I believe it’s essential to additionally perceive and notice that this can be a fictional story — and it’s additionally not me.”
He added, “I don’t suppose there’s a single human being on the planet who can carry the emotional negativity to the diploma that stuff like this occurs.”
Casalegno has starred as Jeremiah, one of many love pursuits of adlescent protagonist Stomach Conklin, in all three seasons of Prime Video’s The Summer season I Turned Fairly, which was tailored from Jenny Han’s bestselling Young Adult novels of the identical identify. In each the e-book and TV collection, Stomach (Lola Tung) finds herself in a love triangle with brothers Conrad (Christopher Briney) and Jeremiah. (Han, 44, can also be the showrunner on the Prime Video iteration.)
Whereas Gavin Casalegno stays loyal to his The Summer season I Turned Fairly character, Jeremiah, the actor credited his marriage for serving to perceive the attraction of Stomach and Conrad’s romance. Throughout a panel at Texas Christian College earlier this month, Casalegno, 25, weighed in on Group Jeremiah vs. Group Conrad — together with how his relationship with […]
Weeks earlier than season 3 premiered final month, Prime Video shared a heartfelt plea for followers to keep away from criticizing the actors, personally, over any onscreen antics.
“I believe that’s why Amazon did a superb job of stepping in and being like, ‘Hey, no bullying.’ Although, [it’s] not likely going so nicely,” Casalegno informed The Occasions, noting many followers have informed him to his face how a lot they dislike Jeremiah. “It’s fairly comical.”
Whereas the Team Conrad vs. Team Jeremiah debate has run rampant all through the collection’ tenure, the dialogue reached a fever pitch after Jeremiah cheats on Stomach with a fellow school scholar named Lacie Barone in season 3. When Stomach finds out the truth, Jeremiah proposes marriage and she or he accepts. Followers have additionally been upset with Jeremiah for permitting Stomach to postpone her desires to review in Paris to remain geographically nearer to him, arguing that Conrad would have by no means carried out the identical.
Stomach (Lola Tung) and Jeremiah (Gavin Casalegno) in season 3. Courtesy of Erika Doss/Amazon
Regardless of the net backlash, Casalegno has tried to remain above the fray.
“I truthfully haven’t even actually watched any of the present,” he informed the outlet. “As a result of, you realize, whenever you’re in it, you realize what’s taking place. And so it’s, like, ‘Why?’ On the finish of the day, it’s work — it’s a tremendous job, a dream job — however it’s nonetheless work.”
Casalegno additional careworn that he’s not Jeremiah.
“We’re each very social and attempt to be the lifetime of the social gathering and please all people — we’re very related in that facet,” he defined. “However, clearly, so far as the immature facet of issues and the partying, I used to be by no means a partyer. I don’t even like going to work events. It’s not who I’m in any respect.”
To get into character, Casalegno previously told Us Weekly that he tried to “preserve it as actual as attainable.”
“I do know the place he finally ends up going and what finally ends up taking place, however I don’t emphasize on that,” Casalegno completely informed Us in 2023. “I believe Jenny writes it so nicely that I’m in a position to type of get there naturally with out having to pressure it a sure route. … I attempt to play it daily as a result of that’s all we are able to do. [We can] simply stay within the second and take advantage of our time.”
The Summer season I Turned Fairly drops new episodes Wednesdays on Prime Video.
