270 | Jenny Han (The Summer I Turned Pretty): Writing Love, Longing & Coming of Age
The Screenwriting Life with Meg LeFauve and Lorien McKenna
Meg LeFauve & Lorien McKenna
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đď¸ 6 November 2025
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everyone, welcome back to the screenwriting life. I'm Lorian McKenna, and today we're joined by |
| 0:07.9 | the person responsible for one of the most passionate fandom debates in recent memory, |
| 0:12.3 | Team Conrad or Team Jeremiah. That's right. We have Jenny Hahn with us today. |
| 0:17.6 | Jenny is an executive producer, showrunner, and the number one New York Times bestselling author |
| 0:22.3 | behind the series, The Summer I Turn Pretty, and To All the Boys I've loved before. She's a |
| 0:26.9 | creator and showrunner of the summer I Turn Pretty, which became the number one show on |
| 0:30.7 | Prime Video, the weekend it premiered, and she returned this summer with a highly anticipated |
| 0:34.4 | third season, where she also made her directorial debut. |
| 0:38.5 | Jenny also served as an executive producer on the hit to All the Boys' Film Trilogy on Netflix |
| 0:43.3 | and created its spin-off X-O Kitty, now in its third season. Through her production banner, |
| 0:49.0 | Jenny kissed me. She continues to develop and produce new projects for Amazon Studios. |
| 0:53.4 | Welcome to the show, Jenny. |
| 0:54.7 | Thank you for having me. We can't wait to chat with Jenny, but before we do, let's talk about |
| 0:59.6 | our weeks or what we like to call adventures and screenwriting. I'll go first. So I just got back |
| 1:05.6 | from a writer's retreat where I mentor. It's called Sinistory and it's up in Ida Wild and it's |
| 1:10.8 | four days. And the amazing |
| 1:13.6 | thing about it is everyone's, you know, so interested in developing their craft while we're up there, |
| 1:21.0 | which is great and everyone's really excited. But mostly it's the lack of mental load I have to |
| 1:25.7 | carry because the schedule is really clear. |
| 1:28.3 | I know when I'm supposed to eat. |
| 1:29.7 | I know where I'm supposed to go. |
| 1:31.0 | I know who I'm supposed to talk to in the panels that I'm on. |
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