{"id":94110,"date":"2025-07-26T12:50:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-26T12:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/94110\/"},"modified":"2025-07-26T12:50:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-26T12:50:11","slug":"dallas-born-gavin-casalegno-of-the-summer-i-turned-pretty-once-considered-leaving-acting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/94110\/","title":{"rendered":"Dallas-born Gavin Casalegno of \u2018The Summer I Turned Pretty\u2019 once considered leaving acting"},"content":{"rendered":"

Before starring as teen heartthrob Jeremiah in The Summer I Turned Pretty, Gavin Casalegno attended Lovejoy High School in Lucas and had a career goal \u201cto be at a red carpet that\u2019s going to be really big,\u201d he told the student paper<\/a> in 2014.<\/p>\n

The Dallas-born actor\u2019s breakout role came in 2022, when Prime Video\u2019s hit coming-of-age series debuted. At its core is a love triangle between protagonist Belly (Lola Tung) and her childhood friends, brothers Jeremiah (Casalegno) and Conrad (Christopher Briney). <\/p>\n

The show, which also featured family drama and reckonings with grief, premiered its third and final season in mid July.<\/p>\n

\u201cFrom season 1 to season 3, I have undergone so much change and growth and maturity, specifically emotional maturity and intelligence \u2014 learning more about myself and the impact of the people and the family around me,\u201d Casalegno told Man About Town for its spring\/summer 2025 issue. <\/p>\n

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The 25-year-old has been acting since he was four, he also told the British magazine. Casalegno could not be reached by The Dallas Morning News for an interview.<\/p>\n

As a young teen, he acted in the 2014 biblical blockbuster Noah alongside industry veterans Russell Crowe and Emma Watson.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe always had confidence,\u201d said Casalegno\u2019s former acting coach, Cathryn Sullivan. \u201cOver the years, he got better and better.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"GavinGavin Casalegno acted in the 2014 sports drama ‘When the Game Stands Tall.'(Courtesy of Cathryn Sullivan)<\/p>\n

Sullivan had a studio in Lewisville where Casalegno trained for nearly eight years. She counts North Texas cultural phenoms Selena Gomez and Demi Lovato among her former students.<\/p>\n

Casalegno has returned to Sullivan\u2019s class as an acting coach and aide, stepping in for breakup scenes, she said. The girls in her class, she added, \u201cwere like \u2018Oh my God, this is wonderful.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

The presence of Casalegno and other alumni who swing by shows her students \u201cit\u2019s normal to be able to have success \u2026 you just have to find a way to be resilient.\u201d <\/p>\n

Casalegno almost quit the craft a few years ago, according to Sullivan. <\/p>\n

\u201cHe was like \u2018Yeah, I\u2019m giving up. This is hard. You get rejected all the time,\u2019\u201d she recalled him saying. <\/p>\n

A few weeks after that, he booked a recurring role in eight episodes of Walker, a reboot of Walker, Texas Ranger. <\/p>\n

When he got his part in The Summer I Turned Pretty, Casalegno was \u201csuper excited,\u201d Sullivan said, adding \u201che didn\u2019t know it was going to be a hit like it was.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cGavin did great in it. I thought he was the best one. Of course, I\u2019m a little bit prejudiced,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n

Fans of the show have split allegiances between Team Jeremiah and Team Conrad, referring to the love triangle. <\/p>\n

Sullivan, naturally, is #TeamJeremiah. \u201cThere\u2019s no way I can be Team Conrad.\u201d<\/p>\n

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