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The Summer I Turned Pretty Breakout Star Lola Tung Is 'Group Belly'

For Lola Tung, playing The Summer I Turned Pretty courageous woman Isabel "Paunch" Conklin resembled playing one more variant of herself.

The 19-year-old New York local associated with PEOPLE to discuss her experience presenting to Jenny Han's. 

Top rated 2009 book to live in Prime Video's series variation, which debuted Friday and imprints Tung's most memorable significant acting gig.

Tung tells PEOPLE she "truly needed to show the significance of this piece of her life 

That it is so appealing to go through this time of sorting everything out and growing up."

The show follows 16-year-old Belly during a developmental summer at Cousins Beach. 

As she travels with her sibling Steven (Sean Kaufman), Fisher siblings Jeremiah (Gavin Casalegno), 

Conrad (Christopher Briney), and their moms. Tummy's been infatuated with Conrad since she can recollect....

He appears to at long last see her this year — when so does Jeremiah.

"This was the mid-year that she was truly finding what her identity was and who she needed to be.

Making her own way and tracking down her freedom," Tung says. "Furthermore, I connected with that a great deal."