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    'To All the Boys 2': How Lana Condor and Jenny Han made a teen heroine for themselves

    by Jen Yamato, Los Angeles Times Feb 14, 2020 7 minutes

    LOS ANGELES - Bestselling author Jenny Han had just flown cross-country from New York to meet up with Lana Condor, the star of her hit "To All the Boys I've Loved Before" movies, when the actress turned to her with an urgent query: "Do you think I'm like Kitty or Lara Jean or Margot in real life?"

    Han took the serious question under serious consideration. After all, Condor skyrocketed to fame overnight playing bookish teen heroine Lara Jean Song Covey, the romance-obsessed protagonist of the 2018 film adapted from Han's bestselling novel and its new sequel, "To All The Boys: P.S. I Still Love You" (now streaming on Netflix).

    And as fans know, Lara Jean and her sisters Kitty (Anna Cathcart) and Margot (Janel Parrish) are as different from one another as Condor's onscreen beaus: Peter Kavinsky (Noah Centineo), the jock Lara Jean fell for at the end of the first movie, and sensitive musician John Ambrose McClaren (Jordan Fisher), the old flame who complicates Lara Jean's love life as the second film picks up.

    "That's tricky," Han said after a beat. "I'd put you as more of a ... Chris," naming Lara Jean's unconventional but loyal best friend. "Yes!" screamed Condor, and they both

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