Kitty Music Covey’s intriguing adore lifestyle has almost nothing on the “XO, Kitty” cast’s authentic-lifetime friendships. According to Anna Cathcart, who has portrayed Kitty on monitor because the initial “To All the Boys I’ve Liked Before” motion picture designed its Netflix debut in 2018, the bond she shares with her castmates has designed her journey as the character all the more worthwhile. “I am certainly so grateful for all of them for the reason that they created this sort of a big difference,” she tells POPSUGAR. “It is really actually what tends to make the expertise at the conclude: the people today that you meet up with and the friendships that you make.”
On display, Cathcart and her costars — Gia Kim, Min-young Choi, Sang Heon Lee, Anthony Keyvan, and Jocelyn Shelfo — are inseparable. Even when their characters get on just about every other’s nerves or come across by themselves entangled in a complex enjoy triangle (study: enjoy sq.), they are unable to help but stay included in every other’s life. When the cameras slash, that tether remains just as strong.
“I recall sensation like this is what it implies to have a family of good friends, to have these an wonderful, supportive group of folks.”
“The actuality that persons however preferred to carry on hanging out and be like, ‘Yeah, I know we just invested the complete 16-hour workday alongside one another, but let’s even now have meal together,’ was so distinctive and, I assume, exceptional,” Cathcart suggests. On one particular event, she and Keyvan even booked a past-moment flight to see their “XO, Kitty” billboard in Instances Square collectively just days right after observing each and every other on set — evidence that pretty much any time used aside is as well substantially. “[The group chat] is a ton of like, ‘Where are we likely tonight? What’s occurring tomorrow? I am below,'” she says.
In addition to arranging day by day dinners, the solid ordinarily move their time on established with sing-alongs in their make-up chairs — typically with Cathcart or Lee on the aux — and numerous inside jokes. She adds that the forged have even occur up with code terms and code names to communicate to each and every other when they’re mic’d. “There’s, like, specified music that now I will listen to and I am going to really feel like I’m back again on set,” she states. “One particular is ‘Zoom’ by Jessi, which is K-pop and it really is these an upbeat hoopla tune. And when which is played, anyone is like, ‘We are at the “XO, Kitty” set,’ like, ‘We’re back again.’ I think even in like 50 years, you can play that and I will be like, ‘I pass up most people.'”
When they are not on set, the group divide their time in between having tea at Lee’s condominium and educating each other how to prepare dinner various foods. “Anthony manufactured all of us pasta a person night. Which is 1 of, like, my most loved core memories of the entire knowledge,” Cathcart claims. “We all sat all over on the ground of his resort and ate handmade food and we all just, like, acquired to know just about every other for the reason that we ended up nonetheless relatively new. And I bear in mind feeling like this is what it signifies to have a household of mates, to have such an amazing, supportive group of people. It was so lovable.”
Looking back on her experience filming time one, Cathcart suggests it’s these little times that have trapped with her the most. “It’s so humorous to search back on it now and bear in mind all the small things,” she suggests. “These ended up some of the ideal moments: all the modest issues that are genuinely not compact in the stop due to the fact they have the greatest effect.”
The cast’s fast bond is specially heartwarming taking into consideration quite a few of them lived on distinctive continents and had only satisfied on Zoom prior to filming. “I met Gia 1st,” she recollects, adding that they experienced their initially encounter at their hotel. For Cathcart and Kim, the relationship was instantaneous. “We just were being, like, declaring congratulations to each other and staying like, ‘I’m so psyched for you.’ She was like, ‘I’m so enthusiastic for you!’ It was just a extremely very good sensation of: we are about to begin an experience alongside one another.” When it came to meeting her other castmates, Cathcart was mesmerized by how very similar they have been to their people. “Min-youthful has a good deal of traits that are equivalent to Dae, and Sang has so a lot of qualities that are comparable to Min Ho,” she says. “They have been both of those such attractive folks, but it was actually humorous to see that.”
As filming carries on, Cathcart states she’s grow to be increasingly grateful for this loveliness from her castmates, noting that their dissimilarities have made their friendship more powerful. “In our group, we also have a large amount of range in unique approaches,” she says. “Men and women who are portion of different communities are all, now, component of a single huge group. [It’s a mix of] diverse ages and different everyday living experiences. To price range as a close friend group is seriously significant, and it interprets a large amount into how you interact and what you men do and how being familiar with and empathetic anyone can be for each and every other.”
This empathy generally manifests by itself in heartfelt talks concerning scenes. “It was good to be equipped to chat about your day and have individuals get it, have folks assist you, and know the feelings that you happen to be dealing with or at the very least be empathetic to them and listen,” she claims. “If you experienced a really hard day or if you had been pressured with one thing, absolutely everyone understands that, which is definitely crucial to have all through a journey like that.” She adds, “I think having individuals who fully grasp you and who hear you is very essential.”
Further demonstrating their like for each other, the forged even surprised Cathcart with the “very best birthday” of her everyday living when she turned 19 final June. “It was the greatest they went all out and experienced a complete surprise,” she states. Just after a enjoyable-loaded supper and a night on the city, Cathcart’s pals also handled her to an “unforgettable” present. “They painted me a skateboard,” she says, adding that she’s an avid skater. “They got a blank skateboard, and they all painted it and worked on it and built it. I came household on the airplane holding it in bubble wrap.”
As substantially as Cathcart enjoys her castmates IRL, she also holds place in her heart for all of the “XO, Kitty” figures, in particular when it will come to their challenging like lives. “If Kitty continues to adhere to her heart and does what feels very best for her, I aid whoever she decides, even if that’s herself!” she says of the passionate pressure in between Kitty, Min Ho, Yuri, and Dae at the conclusion of time a person. “I imagine prioritizing a relationship with herself is also actually significant proper now, so I am very pleased of Kitty for currently being by itself at the close of the period and for providing herself the space to determine it all out.”
“XO, Kitty” season 1 is presently streaming on Netflix, and it has been renewed for a 2nd period.
