The teenage romance book and later film series To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before quickly became a hit amongst its readers and viewers. The series revolves around Lara Jean, a high school student whose life turns upside down when all her former crushes receive the love letters Lara Jean once wrote them – courtesy of Lara Jean’s younger sister Kitty.

The first two books have been adapted into films, and it brought the amazing characters and love story to the film screen. But there are some details about the main characters you might have missed in the sequel, so let’s take a look at 10 of them.

10 Lara Jean’s Phone Screen

In the first film, after Peter and Lara Jean start fake-dating, Peter asks Lara Jean to go to a party with him. She agrees, albeit reluctantly since it’s a part of their agreement. When they arrive at the party, before they come in, Peter takes a photo of Lara Jean and saves it as his screenshot.

He then asks Lara Jean to put a photo of him on her screen as well, as any girlfriend would do. In the second film, the audience gets a glimpse of Lara Jean’s phone and she has a photo of herself and Peter on the background. The photo was actually taken during the production process when Lana Condor and Noah Centineo fell asleep, and it isn’t in any way staged.

9 Kitty’s Necklace

Lara Jean has two sisters, younger sister Kitty and older sister Margot. She’s close to both of her sisters, even more so since their mom died a few years back, which brought the family together. Once Margot finishes her high-school studies and leaves for Scotland to study at college, Lara Jean begins spending more time with Kitty.

Even though Kitty’s younger than Lara Jean, she’s more social and has the tendency to do whatever she deems best. Kitty’s character is well reflected in her choice of a necklace which says “Feminist”, and you can see her wearing the necklace throughout the second film.

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8 A Genuine Letter

Lara Jean’s whole complicated story starts when her sister Kitty sends out the love letters Lara Jean wrote to all her five crushes but never sent them. John Ambrose is one of those crushes and he actually writes Lara Jean back in the second film, a moment that comes as a shock to Lara Jean since she’s already dating Peter and didn’t expect to hear from John.

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He contacts her nonetheless and the two become pen-pals. John Ambrose’s letters are sweet and detailed, and what’s more, his actor Jordan Fisher wrote them all by himself, so the nice handwriting you can see in the film is Fisher’s.

7 Kissing On The Track

Peter and Lara Jean might not look like it at first glance but they actually have a knack for upholding traditions. In the first film, their first kiss happens on a school sports track. Lara Jean jumps Peter (literally) when he confronts her about the love letter he believes she sent to him.

Peter rejects her but Lara Jean kisses him anyway when she sees her other crush Josh Sanderson coming closer and she panics. In the second film, Peter and Lara Jean share a kiss on the sports track again, this time as an official couple when they celebrate Valentine’s Day together.

6 No Safety Goggles

Lara Jean and Peter get along well and are very much in love with each other but that doesn’t mean they’re both the same. Lara Jean is much shyer and reserved than Peter, yet they complement each other well. She’s also more responsible than her boyfriend, which makes the fact that she doesn’t use safety goggles when required even more interesting.

In the sequel, Peter and Lara Jean have the task to dissect a frog during a biology class – a task which Lara Jean ends up doing for Peter since he can’t bring himself to do it. The rest of the class is wearing safety goggles, but neither Lara Jean or Peter do, and the teacher doesn’t seem to mind.

5 A Piano Player

After watching the sequel To All The Boys: P.S. I Still Love You, many fans became convinced that Lara Jean made a bad choice and she should have picked John Ambrose instead. Yes, Peter has a lot of positive sides to him, but Lara Jean and John Ambrose not only have similar characters, but they were also close friends when they were kids, and they share a lot of adorable moments in the film.

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One of them happens when Lara Jean finds John Ambrose playing the piano and she joins him. You might not know that Jordan Fisher actually did play the piano in this scene, and he didn’t have a hand double for it.

4 A Predestined Kiss

Lara Jean and Peter are dating at the beginning of the second film but then they break up and it seems like they might not be getting together again. Lara Jean spends a lot of time with John Ambrose in the meantime since they both end up volunteering at Belleview, a local home for elderly people.

They decide to throw a ball for the Belleview’s residents and dress up themselves. They share a dance and a kiss in the snow, which could have been foreshadowed earlier. During a date with Peter, Lara Jean wins a snowglobe at a carnival and the snowglobe’s showing a couple kissing in the snow – just like John Ambrose and Lara Jean did.

3 Falling Again

Lara Jean isn’t a very clumsy person. Yes, she’s not as athletic as her boyfriend Peter, but she still has no problem exercising in school or dancing. But when it comes to truly embarrassing situations, Lara Jean suddenly starts falling much more often than she usually does.

It’s true that every person reacts to embarrassment in different ways, so you can’t really hold it against Lara Jean. In the first film, when she realizes that Peter read the love letter she wrote to him, she faints. In the sequel, when Lara Jean unexpectedly meets John Ambrose again, she trips and falls down, startling everyone present. That’s starting to look like a pattern, don’t you think?

2 Family Relations

In the first film, the audience got to see the Song Covey family living happily together in their house – Lara Jean, Margot, Kitty, and their dad. In the second film, however, the viewers meet even more members of Lara Jean’s family. When Lara Jean and Kitty go to a Korean celebration, they spend time with their grandma and grandpa.

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What’s interesting about it is the fact that Lara Jean’s grandparents were played by the real-life parents of none other than Jenny Han, the author of the To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before book series. Jenny Han herself then had brief cameos in both of the films.

1 Love For The 80s

Lara Jean isn’t a party animal and when it comes to her free time, she likes to spend it at home or with her best friend Chris. Lara Jean loves romance novels, baking, and as it’s revealed in the first film, she also has a soft spot for the 1980s, more specifically movies from the area. She and Peter make a deal to watch the 1984 John Hughes’ film Sixteen Candles together.

In the sequel, right in the opening scene, Lara Jean lets her love for the good old 80s shine once again when she dances to a song from the 1987 movie Adventures in Babysitting and even recreates a whole scene from the film in her room… until Kitty stops her.

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Kath Leroy
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Kath Leroy is a writer at Screen Rant. She also publishes in a number of Czech magazines. She works as an actress and appeared in feature films, short films, as well as TV series. Kath has loved movies, TV, and literature ever since she was a child and her father first played Star Trek for her. Since she has a background in writing genre fiction and screenplays, Kath enjoys fantasy, sci-fi, and superhero films and shows above all – however, she likes to watch films of all genres.

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