Christopher Briney Praises 'The Summer I Turned Pretty' Fanbase & Addresses Online Discourse | THR Video - video Dailymotion

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Christopher Briney talks to THR at the 'The Summer I Turned Pretty' season three premiere and dishes on shooting the final season of the show saying, "I don't know if this has really hit any of us yet." Plus, he praises the show's incredible fan base while also reflecting on the negative discourse that's emerged online.

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00:00Finish this sentence. For you, it's not summer without this.

00:08Golf.

00:11Big golfer?

00:12Now I am, yeah. Two years running.

00:16Well, this is the final season. A lot of people don't want to see this show end,

00:20but walk me through that final table read or maybe those last few days on set.

00:25I mean, I don't know if this has really hit any of us yet.

00:30Especially our last few days on set were very anticlimactic.

00:35I think I shot one of the last scenes, but we were delayed like five days

00:39because there was a hurricane coming in and they needed equipment to film this scene

00:43that they couldn't get shipped because there was weather and blah, blah, blah.

00:47All that to say, you know, I don't think things always go out with a bang.

00:52Did you do a big cast party?

00:54I think there was a cast party, but most people had already left.

00:58It was such a fizzle.

01:00Well, this will be it. This will be the big cast.

01:01This is our wrap party, yeah.

01:03Do you think fans will be satisfied with whatever choice Belly makes in the end?

01:08I hope so.

01:09I hope people can lean into the story as a whole

01:14and look at the arc of how these characters interact

01:17and the choices they make and decide that it ends in the right place.

01:21This is such a passionate fan base.

01:24There's always a lot of discourse between Team Jeremiah, Team Conrad.

01:28What do you make of all the discourse?

01:30Because I know the show itself put out an anti-bullying statement before the season was released.

01:34I mean, I think it's really cool to have people care enough and have teams and have t-shirts about that.

01:41I mean, that's sort of become like a trope in young adult movies and TV, like Team Whatever, Team Whatever.

01:49I think sometimes people can take it too far and people can treat actors as if they have more power over the situation

02:03or as if they are acting as their characters do.

02:06And I think that's just a little ignorant to the work that goes into this.

02:11Like, if you hate a character that's wonderful, we've done our job, you know?

02:16It doesn't mean you need to come for them.

02:18So I think I'm grateful that they put that statement out.

02:22Reminder to be kinder online.

02:24Yeah, of course. We all need that reminder, yeah.

02:27I know no one wants to see this show end.

02:28Could you see it come back in the form of a spinoff or a movie event?

02:33I don't know.

02:33Well, I mean, it's Jenny's story.

02:37I've always said that I wanted us to get three seasons because that's the arc of the books.

02:42And I think these characters' arcs aren't complete without that whole story.

02:46And we got our third season, and I feel really grateful for where we are.

02:51But at the end of the day, it's Jenny's story and her decision.

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