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16.05.2023 - 21:03 / etcanada.com
Canadian actress Anna Cathcart is currently starring in Netflix rom-com series “XO, Kitty”, reprising the role she played in “To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before” and its two sequels.
During a recent interview with ET Canada’s Carlos Bustamante, Cathcart — now 19 — opened up about what it’s been like to step into the starring role while continuing to play a character she originated at age 14.
“It’s wild. It’s very, very surreal that this is happening. And I never would have predicted it when I was first playing Kitty, like, many years ago,” she said. “It’s very not what I saw coming. So it’s wild. It’s such an honour.”
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When she first heard about the potential for a spin-off featuring Kitty, younger sister of “All the Boys” protagonist Lara Jean (Lana Condor), Cathcart didn’t think it was serious.
“It was first presented to me like as an idea when we were shooting the third movie, the third ‘To All the Boys’,” she recalled.
“And I really did not think it was going to become a real thing. And I was like, ‘Oh, people have ideas all the time.’ Like, ‘Oh, that would be a dream for me.’ But I fully thought it was just like a joke, like not an actual thing,” Cathcart continued.
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“And then shortly after it became more and more real, and then it kind of went over many years of different ideas and different setbacks and things,” she added. “And now that we’re actually here and it’s becoming like an actual thing other people can see and be a part of too, is so crazy,” she added. “It’s a lot for me to process. It’s
Hailee Steinfeld is proud to play strong female characters on screen.
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Rachel Seo Jenny Han’s 2014 novel “To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before” first introduces readers to Kitty Song Covey as the mischievous younger sister of main protagonist Lara Jean. Kitty, a precocious pre-teen, harbors a penchant for instigating drama — an affinity that sets off the chain of events leading to the fake-but-eventually-real relationship between her sister and love interest Peter Kavinsky. Memorialized by Anna Cathcart in the 2018 film version of the book — which spawned two sequels and launched the careers of Lana Condor and Noah Centineo, who played the leads — Kitty often serves as the comic relief, offsetting Lara Jean’s careful romantic idealism. But in spinoff series “XO, Kitty,” which premiered on the streaming service on Thursday, the little sister becomes the star, and Cathcart steps into the spotlight.
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