Lana Condor, Noah Centineo's on 'To All the Boys 3': Read Quotes

It’s a sad day when Lana Condor and Noah Centineo have to officially say goodbye to the To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before trilogy. For three years, the talented stars stole viewers’ hearts as the love story between Lara Jean and Peter Kavinsky unfolded on screen, and now it’s over.

February 12, 2021, marked the third film’s premiere on Netflix and fans cried along with their favorite high schoolers as Lara and Peter decided during To All the Boys: Always and Forever whether or not they would go to college together. When talking about the end of the franchise with Self magazine in February 2021, Lana offered some relationship advice to her beloved character, and in turn, to the young girls who look up to her.

“Make sure that the person that you love and the person that you want to be your partner wants to support you and wants to be on the journey with you. And doesn’t ask you to change. And doesn’t ask you not to focus on your future,” the actress said. “That’s what I would say to Lara Jean: If someone’s making you choose [between them and] your career or your future and your success and your path and your journey, that’s probably not the right person to be with.”

Reflecting on her last day as the character who changed her life, Lana remembered that there was a lot of tears involved. “Let’s be honest: I was a complete mess,” she said.

Following the To All the Boys: Always and Forever release on Netflix, both Lana and her costar, Noah, have opened up about moving on from these fan-favorite characters. Scroll through our gallery to read the actors’ most emotional quotes.

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The Last Day

“I was having the best day ever working with my friends,” Lana told Self about filming the movie’s final scene. “And then my heart was also breaking at the same time, because I knew I was going to have to say goodbye to this character that has done so much for me and has just changed my life, has given me these insane opportunities, has just made me feel like I’m more connected to my community.”

Noah’s Last Scene

“I kind of just avoided him throughout the day,” Lana told Entertainment Tonight in February 2021 about saying goodbye to Noah, who wrapped before she did. “I didn’t want to look at him. I didn’t want to talk to him. I was like, ‘No, this isn’t happening,’ and that was pretty rough. I just feel very grateful for everyone on the cast and I feel very grateful that I got to work with Noah because I think our relationship really stood the test of time in these movies. I really enjoy him as a scene partner and as a person, so saying goodbye to him knowing that we were going to keep going, but that was his last day, really, really sucked.”

Lara Jean’s Decision

“It’s so overwhelming. Let me tell you right now, I am fully in denial. I have not processed, not a single thin,” Lana told E! News. “With the first and the second films, a lot of it was choosing between guys and choosing different relationships, which is obviously appropriate ‘cause that’s the genre of the movie … But something that was so important to me from the third one was like, okay, now I want her to choose herself. I want her to choose her dreams and her future and what she feels is right … as a woman.”

The Ending

“It feels like, to me, this send off that I really hoped and prayed it would be for Lara Jean,” Lana told E! News in January 2021. “The whole franchise is about making choices. So, I’m happy with the choice that she made. Now I hope that everyone else will be happy, but we shall see … But I love it because the main focus is who she wants to be outside of the world of high school and stepping into the real world, whether or not that’s by herself or together.”

She continued, “I think she really focuses on what she wants in her future and she starts thinking about the future as a young woman, which is really exciting for me. It’s really exciting for me to play because I think that’s just my vibe in general, like I’m always trying to figure out who I am and what I stand for and where I’m going. I think a lot of that is what Lara Jean goes through in the third movie.”

Peter K’s Impact

“I learned a lot about relatability. People want to watch good people and good, warm stories,” Noah told Teen Vogue in February 2021. “So much of him is me, like his laugh. A lot of his mannerisms are my own. Peter’s such a beautiful and clean character, he’s not very messy and he doesn’t allow himself to be, he holds it together for everyone and then when he is messy, it’s these little moments that come out, and I loved that about him.”

What Lana’s Learned

“This experience taught me to conserve my energy because it’s super easy to in the just chaos of this whirlwind that To All the Boys was for me, you give, give, give, give, give, give, give, expel so much energy. Then you wake up one day and there’s like literally nothing left,” she told Teen Vogue. “I learned that the hard way, taking care of myself and not burning the candle down to the very wick. To be a good performer, I need to have my energy and I need to feel okay mentally as well.”

Lana continued, “Lara Jean just has a good heart. She leads with love. She loves love. I’ll miss that a lot, but I have taken that into my life now just because it’s hard not to … we bled into each other. We’re like two peas in a pod. I’ll miss her heart.”

Lara Jean’s Growth

“We ended on a really, really good note,” Lana told Entertainment Tonight in September 2020. “I’m forever grateful for the character and I’m really excited for people to see the third movie because I think the third one is my favorite movie out of the three.”

She added, “I think we’ve watched Lara Jean and myself grow up through these movies and I’m proud of the way that we end with her. I’m hopeful for her future. I see a bright future for her, and I know that she’s gonna go off and occupy her space and do the things that she loves. Particularly in the third movie you see a lot of personal growth from Lara Jean.”

Making the Final Film

“It was a crazy emotional experience, because the last few years have been the greatest ups and the greatest downs of my life,” Lana said during an interview with The New York Times. “I love the movies, the friends I made in the movies, the story — I love the color scheme of our movies, the pinks and the teals. So knowing it’s the last time I’ll be in the bedroom, the last time I’ll be in the school, all these things that I’ve been spending so much time in in the past three years, is emotional. I’m going to miss it a lot.”