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SPOILER ALERT: This station contains spoilers for nan full 3rd play of Netflix’s ‘XO, Kitty.‘
Katherine “Kitty” Song Covey (Anna Cathcart) and her KISS classmates are increasing up.
Season 3 of Netflix’s XO, Kitty which spins disconnected of nan To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before trilogy, brings respective beloved pairs together aft clip apart, challenging friendships, emotion and familial bonds.
It each comes to a caput midway done nan show astatine what is expected to beryllium a celebratory Chuseok feast — for illustration nan 1 successful Season 1 — wherever Kitty and her friends and family stitchery to grant their ancestors and observe those who came earlier them. However, secrets and play looming astatine nan edges of nan meal array spill complete into speech accidentally, dividing nan friend group and causing definite friendships and relationships to get a person look nether nan microscope.
Season 3 showrunner Valentina Garza pointed to section five, titled “Off nan List” arsenic a boiling constituent for galore characters, peculiarly nan titular main heroine, her occurrence Min Ho (Sang Heon Lee) and her bestie Q (Anthony Keyvan).
“At nan extremity of nan Chuseok episode, Kitty and Min Ho break up, and Kitty and Q breakup arsenic well. This was really wherever nan kettle boils complete successful nan season,” she said. “Everything falls isolated for Kitty, which is why she has to nonstop up that flare and telephone successful nan large dogs, meaning Lara Jean.”
Returning nan favour Kitty did her earlier successful Season 3 by visiting her successful New York during a turbulent clip pinch her longtime fellow Peter Kavinsky (Noah Centineo), Kitty’s older sister Lara Jean (Lana Condor) fakes norovirus to alert to Seoul and return attraction of Kitty post-Chuseok chaos. LJ helps connected nan emotion beforehand pinch immoderate proposal that besides affects Kitty’s assemblage applications, but nan youngest Song Covey sister mends some her romanticist narration and that pinch her champion friend, which was tenuous successful Season 2 arsenic well, connected her own.
“Q is not being wholly honorable pinch Kitty aliases pinch Jin aliases pinch himself this season. I deliberation he is confused, and it’s conscionable nan messy and analyzable portion of increasing up and trying to person much mature relationships,” Garza said. “It’s not needfully a consecutive statement aliases easy, and truthful that’s each portion of his growth, and unfortunately, it leads to a breakdown successful their relationship, but they are each other’s thrust aliases die, and truthful thankfully, they find their measurement backmost to 1 another.”
Garza expands connected Kitty and Min Ho’s romance arc, Yuri’s way this season, nan analyzable gestation plotline and much successful nan beneath interview.
DEADLINE: How did you want to make nan romanticist arc betwixt Kitty and Min Ho consciousness earned, but besides equilibrium waiting for a small spot — successful that first section — earlier they yet kiss?
VALENTINA GARZA: Well, coming disconnected nan play 2 finale, we person near our fans leaning successful pinch bated activity to find retired really Min Ho is going to reply Kitty’s question, ‘Can I travel pinch you?’ And we don’t really cognize what that means, and Kitty doesn’t really cognize what that intends either.
We really wanted to reward our fans’ patience waiting for america pinch taking them connected an breathtaking travel successful Busan and continuing to unrecorded successful that will-they-won’t-they tension, but astonishing our fans, hopefully, by getting them to that first buss overmuch sooner than they astir apt expected. [Laughs.] We thought that would beryllium an breathtaking measurement to commencement nan season.
DEADLINE: With Yuri’s arc this season, location are a batch of people themes, arsenic location person been successful erstwhile seasons, but Yuri’s business and Dae coming into money were caller for Season 3. How did you want to tackle that, and why was that needed for Yuri to find her caller gig successful fashion?
GARZA: This season, for Kitty, for Yuri, for each of our characters, is really astir each of them being connected nan precipice of adulthood, and transitioning successful this last twelvemonth of being seniors successful precocious schoolhouse into being adults. For Yuri, that modulation is much difficult than anybody else, because each nan information nets that she’s had successful life are now gone, and she’s really relying connected Kitty and her friends and the bonds of relationship to spot her done and thief her to find who she’s going to go successful this moment. Hopefully, we were capable to execute that successful a satisfying way, but I deliberation that for her and for each of our characters, it’s really a play of individual maturation and learning. For Yuri, it’s astir learning that she tin beryllium who she wants to be, pinch aliases without nan money that she’s had and that her past doesn’t specify her.
DEADLINE: The manner show is truthful fun. How did that travel together? Did it return a while to root everything? How did you spell astir building that sequence?
GARZA: I person to springiness each in installments to our costume section for nan unthinkable imagination that they had for it, and they really brought everything together really quickly. For Yuri, she really does person an arc that plays retired successful her manner arsenic well, because she has to springiness distant a batch of her signature pieces that we’ve seen passim nan different seasons, and she has to study to rebuild her personality arsenic a manner icon arsenic well.
She’s creating these caller outfits from things that she’s thrifting and learning to creatively build her personality done her fashion. We spot successful nan manner show nan culmination of that pinch this manner statement that I really deliberation speaks to who she is arsenic a queer female arsenic well. It’s each flowing retired successful her creativity, and truthful that’s a really breathtaking travel for her.
DEADLINE: How did you want to equilibrium nan erstwhile romanticist history and past relationships betwixt a batch of these characters pinch caller relationships being explored successful Season 3? Particularly I’m reasoning of Dae and Min Ho’s friendship.
GARZA: There is decidedly immoderate hostility astatine nan opening of nan season. But I deliberation Dae is an incredibly gracious character, and he’s really much concerned astatine nan opening of nan play pinch his narration pinch Yuri, and really that’s been impacted by nan reversal of fortune. [He wants] to beryllium really wise pinch what’s happening pinch Min Ho and Kitty, but he and Kitty are successful a really bully place, and they person a beardown friendship, and I deliberation he’s successful a position wherever he tin really really guidelines for Min Ho and Kitty to beryllium happy.
Of people he has his ain things going connected that cipher other knows about. So that besides really helps.
DEADLINE: I loved nan segment pinch him and Q, erstwhile he says, ‘Oh, you want to talk to maine astir feelings?’ I wanted to inquire astir having Lana Condor backmost successful a mates appearances crossed episodes vs. Noah Centineo’s and Janelle Parish’s singular cameos successful Season 2. How did you navigate weaving her backmost into nan story?
GARZA: Lara Jean is specified a beloved character. The To All nan Boys I’ve Loved Before franchise was truthful meaningful to truthful galore people. So it was very breathtaking to beryllium capable to bring Lana into nan season, and we really wanted to let her to person an impactful arc pinch Kitty.
We’re really grateful that we sewage much than conscionable a cameo. At nan opening of nan season, Kitty is connected nan precipice of a breakthrough pinch Min Ho erstwhile she gets this matter from Lara Jean, who has gotten herself successful this unsmooth spot pinch Peter and really needs her sister. Of course, Kitty drops everything to beryllium pinch her. And Lara Jean returns nan favour erstwhile Kitty gets herself into immoderate problem successful nan mediate of nan play and is really capable to return nan affectional maturation that she has been having successful her ain life and successful her ain relationship, and usage that to impart her large sisterly contented to Kitty and to promote Kitty to attraction connected herself and to stake connected herself, which is thing that she’s learned. At nan extremity of nan day, our fans tin beryllium relieved that Peter and Lara Jean are backmost together and each is good.
DEADLINE: You took a small spot of clip to show she wants to beryllium an author, and that she’s maturing too. All 3 of nan sisters are truthful brave successful their ain ways and person gone each these different places.
GARZA: And Kitty and Kitty and Lara Jean’s arcs are really interconnected. They’re some capable to springiness to each different and study and turn done each other. Kitty gives Lara Jean nan courageousness to return that measurement to move successful her book to her publisher. So it’s a very communal relationship.
DEADLINE: There’s nan segment excessively wherever Lara Jean’s leaving and she sees Min Ho, and I’m funny astir having him interact pinch these very important group successful Kitty’s life. Does that mean he’s viewed arsenic extremity game? In nan post-credit scene, it’s hinted that he’s going to meet her dad. What tin you opportunity astir that?
GARZA: I cognize that nan fans are very invested successful these relationships. It felt really breathtaking for these 2 worlds to intersect — nan To All nan Boys world pinch Lara Jean and Min Ho’s world. It would not person felt really complete, I think, if Laura Jean had been location and ne'er really intersected pinch Min Ho, who is really what each of this was each about. I’m willing successful proceeding what [fans] deliberation and really they ideate astir wherever these characters and their relationships tin spell successful nan future. We conscionable can’t hold to spot and find out.
DEADLINE: They each person 1 much semester astatine KISS. Are you unfastened to a Season 4? Could you spot nan show continuing aft KISS pinch kKtty going to NYU? What are your thoughts there?
GARZA: I cognize that each of our fans would emotion to spot that. We’re conscionable gonna person to hold and spot what happens. We’re very excited to proceed to spot our characters study and grow.
DEADLINE: A ace mature taxable that was handled this play was gestation from Eunice’s thought-to-be 1 that turned retired mendacious and Jiwon’s affirmative test. How did that thread travel about?
GARZA: As I said, this is simply a play wherever each of our characters are connected nan precipice of adulthood, truthful we were decidedly reasoning astir having immoderate somewhat much big themes successful this season. That’s wherever that gestation scare came from. We thought it was besides conscionable a really absorbing misdirect. We didn’t expect Dae to find himself successful a business wherever he mightiness beryllium a babe daddy, but yeah, I deliberation it’s conscionable really successful keeping pinch wanting to person them woody pinch immoderate much big challenges this season.
The different point that that storyline allowed america to do was to research that Alex dynamic. It turns retired nan Dae isn’t nan babe daddy, but it’s gonna beryllium Alex, and it allows america to person this really saccharine infinitesimal of closure and description betwixt Alex and his dad. I deliberation that was besides thing that was really satisfying for Kitty to proceed to beryllium a unifier successful those relationships, not conscionable her narration pinch Jiwon and Soon-ja (Jung Hye Sun), but for Alex and his dada arsenic well.
DEADLINE: What does utilizing songs for illustration Ashe’s “Moral of nan Story” and Marina’s “About Love” arsenic needle drops successful nan show adhd for you? And really did nan original euphony for illustration Min Ho’s opus for Kitty travel about?
GARZA: The To All nan Boys I’ve Loved Before franchise is truthful beloved. So whenever we could deliberation of a measurement to person an Easter ovum and laic thing successful from nan franchise and person a telephone backmost here, we’re capable to do that. We really loved doing that done music.
We besides person immoderate original songs this season. We person two. The first is “EUNIQ,” which is Eunice’s first azygous arsenic a K-pop artist. That was really exciting. It’s my first foray into penning a song, and Han-Bi Ryu performs it conscionable beautifully. That’s gonna beryllium really breathtaking for nan for nan fans to spot arsenic well. We really wanted nan opus to person this Baddie Boss Lady assured Jennie from Blackpink energy. In immoderate ways it’s because I deliberation that’s not really really Eunice is experiencing her debut. She’s emotion very susceptible and not assured and not strong. So she’s capable to clasp nan hostility of nan persona that she’s being asked to put connected and what she’s really experiencing.
For Min Ho, we person “By My Side.” I knew that I wanted to telephone backmost to this thought of nan sunrise. This is really we commencement our play pinch Kitty having what seems for illustration this silly thought astir having a sunrise pinch her friends, but it really becomes a very important infinitesimal for Min Ho and their relationship. There’s truthful overmuch ray and truthful overmuch warmth successful that moment. I think, arsenic Min Ho journeys passim nan season, he realizes that that’s what he’s really missing successful his life, and thing that he really wants, and nan sun doesn’t emergence without her successful his life. It’s really a culmination of not only his arc pinch Kitty, but besides his knowing of himself and what he wants successful that moment. So it’s playing connected a personal, relational level, and it’s a beautiful opus that he produces pinch Dae. Saint Rene sings it beautifully, and truthful we’re really excited for our fans to perceive that.
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