{"id":17357,"date":"2025-07-17T21:46:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T21:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/17357\/"},"modified":"2025-07-17T21:46:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T21:46:07","slug":"the-summer-i-turned-pretty-stars-weigh-in-on-shows-bullying-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/17357\/","title":{"rendered":"‘The Summer I Turned Pretty’ Stars Weigh in on Show’s Bullying Ban"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tAfter Prime Video released a warning<\/a> that fans would be banned for \u201cbullying and hate speech\u201d against the cast and crew of The Summer I Turned Pretty<\/a>, its stars are weighing in. <\/p>\n

\n\tThe streamer, which dropped the first two episodes<\/a> of the show\u2019s third and final season<\/a> this week, cautioned on social media, \u201cWe have a zero tolerance policy for bullying and hate speech. If you engage in any of the following you will be banned,\u201d before listing \u201ccommunity guidelines\u201d including no \u201chate speech or bullying,\u201d \u201ctargeting our cast or crew\u201d and \u201charassing or doxxing members of the community.\u201d The series follows Belly, a girl caught in a love triangle between two brothers, as fans have passionately picked sides in the romance.<\/p>\n

\n\tAt the season three launch event in NYC on Wednesday, star Lola Tung<\/a> told The Hollywood Reporter of the warning, \u201cI think the discourse is great when it\u2019s friendly and healthy, a little healthy discourse, and usually people are really respectful and understand that it\u2019s all in good fun. But I think it is good to get a reminder that we need to be kind to each other, especially now \u2014 and just remember that whatever happens, it\u2019ll be OK and to keep all of the discourse friendly.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tChristopher Briney<\/a>, who plays older brother Conrad, mused that it\u2019s \u201creally cool to have people care enough and have teams and have T-shirts about that\u201d but \u201cI think sometimes people can take it too far and people can treat actors as if they have more power over the situation, or as if they\u2019re acting as their characters do. I think that\u2019s just a little ignorant to the work that goes into this; like if you hate a character, that\u2019s wonderful, we\u2019ve done our job. It doesn\u2019t mean you need to come for them. I\u2019m grateful that they put that statement out.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\tCreator Jenny Han added, \u201cI think it\u2019s always good to remember that it\u2019s real people who are playing the characters and they\u2019re just playing a character, it\u2019s not them.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe group is hopeful that the reaction will be more positive, though, Tung confirmed that she thinks fans will be satisfied with the ending and \u201cI think however you feel, hopefully you\u2019ll enjoy the story and be happy with it.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tGavin Casalegno<\/a>, who plays younger brother Jeremiah, echoed, \u201cI hope everyone\u2019s just pleased with the story as whole. Enjoy it for the story and the artwork that it is, I think it\u2019s impossible to be disappointed,\u201d continuing, \u201cI think everyone will be very pleased with the ending, I think it\u2019ll show a lot of maturity.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\tNeha Joy contributed to this report. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After Prime Video released a warning that fans would be banned for \u201cbullying and hate speech\u201d against the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17358,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[16296,88,2250,16297,10552,10553,92],"class_list":["post-17357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-christopher-briney","tag-entertainment","tag-events","tag-gavin-casalegno","tag-lola-tung","tag-the-summer-i-turned-pretty","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17357\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}