Lana was also featured in Harper’s BAZAAR for July 2022 with another interview for her new Netflix show Boo, Bitch:
After To All the Boys, you found yourself in a very lucky position in the industry where you had a little more agency and choice over the roles that you wanted to play. How do you choose projects at this stage of your career?
Early on in my career, I was just like, “Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes,” to anything that came my way. Now, it’s much more about strategy and longevity, which is something that I think about a lot and is hard to attain, to be completely honest, especially in the social media world, where everything is kind of fast content, fast streaming now. I’ve learned the power of [saying] no.
Boo, Bitch is definitely an homage—like a farewell kiss—to high school, mainly just because I’m so much older. I actually recently got to play a lawyer my age in this movie that I did with Will Forte and John Cena [called Wile E. Coyote], and it was really, really rewarding to be able to play someone my age. It felt right, it felt natural, it felt like that’s what it was supposed to be. But a lot of the projects that we’re looking at are projects that may be something that I haven’t done before. I’m picking projects that will give me new tools for my acting tool belt—the joy in my job is to learn and try new things, and see what works and what doesn’t. Right now, we’re being pretty specific about wanting to attach myself to projects that will help people see me in a new light.
Source: Harpers BAZAAR
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Lana was featured in Elle Singapore with an interview all about her new show Boo, Bitch:
What has it been like getting to explore the genre of comedy?
Oh, it’s awesome and ridiculously challenging. It is so hard to make people laugh. Honestly. Comedy is such a formula. It’s hard to explain, but it’s like there are beats to be hit. Oftentimes, you kind of can create these really comedic beats simply with your physical presence. I think To All The Boys was considered a rom-com, but it’s not like slapstick funny. But this show is very much a comedy. And because it was a fairly new genre for me, it was challenging — but it was a welcomed challenge because it was also very, very rewarding. Once you got the take that made everyone laugh, you feel very, very good.
Source: ELLE Singapore
- Photoshoots & Portraits > 2022 > Elle Singapore (2022)
Check out this new interview for Lana’s upcoming show Boo, Bitch. In it, she discusses playing her character Erika:
Lana Condor: You know, it was really such a roller coaster and often times a whiplash of a journey for me. Erika’s journey is really on polar extremes, so you start seeing just a really sweet, loving, kind of friendless, but she has Gia. But very very sweet, and you watch her entire arc into basically being kind of the worst human. That, for me, was interesting because tracking emotionally how I could subtly make that change, I didn’t want it to feel like it was out of nowhere, but then again we have this much time to make it work. But I think tracking that subtle change into full “bitch mode” was interesting.
Once I lived in that “bitch mode” space, that was where my whiplash came because I’ve never done anything like that before. I’ve never played a character that horrible to people, especially to friends, so, that was interesting for me. It was like kind of flexing a new acting muscle that I hadn’t done before. It also made me sad because I would go home and be like, “I was such a mean person!” But it was fun. I enjoyed the challenge of copping a range in a show, for sure.
Source: Screenrant
What was making this last film like for you?
I remember thinking, “How did I get here?” I wanted nothing more than to finish it the way that I would be super proud of Lara Jean. So I was just hellbent; I was constantly talking to the director and the producers and writers and everyone like, “You guys, we need to show her stepping into the world as a young woman choosing herself for the first time.”
It was a crazy emotional experience, because the last few years have been the greatest ups and the greatest downs of my life. [She has said she felt burned out after the first film.] I love the movies, the friends I made in the movies, the story — I love the color scheme of our movies, the pinks and the teals. So knowing it’s the last time I’ll be in the bedroom, the last time I’ll be in the school, all these things that I’ve been spending so much time in in the past three years, is emotional. I’m going to miss it a lot.
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According to Deadline, Lana has booked another new project, this time a series for Netflix that she will both executive produce and star in. This is a huge deal so congrats to her for the great news!
Netflix has given a series order to Boo, Bitch, an eight-episode live-action comedy limited series from Erin Ehrlich (Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, King of the Hill) and Lauren Iungerich (On My Block, Awkward), with Lana Condor (To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before) set to star and executive produce.
Writers Ehrlich and Iungerich created a new take on an original script optioned from newcomers and co-creators Tim Schauer and Kuba Soltysiak.
In Boo Bitch, over the course of one night, a high school senior (Condor), who’s lived her life safely under the radar, seizes the opportunity to change her narrative and start living an epic life, only to find out the next morning… she’s a motherf*%king ghost.
Ehrlich and Iungerich will serve as showrunners and executive produce with Condor, Jonathon Komack Martin (Deadpool), Blake Goza (The Escort) and Jamie Dooner (On My Block). Schauer and Soltysiak will co-executive produce.
Source: Deadline