7 Things You Didn't Know About 'To All The Boys I've Loved Before'

The latest movie to create major buzz on Netflix includes a girl, five letters and a boy who receives her letter, only to approach her about pursuing a fake relationship. To All the Boys I've Loved Before is crazy popular for a reason: the movie is so freaking adorable, you'll be crying alone in your room afterwards, wondering why you don't have a boy like Peter Kavinsky in your life. I mean, have you seen Noah Centineo? I would *not* be mad if he ruined my life. What's crazy is he almost wasn't Peter! Here are seven facts about To All the Boys I've Loved Before you might not already know.

1) Noah Centineo, who plays Peter Kavinsky, almost wasn't Peter!

Yeah, you read that right. The gorg Noah was about to be cast as Josh, the neighbor turned Margot's boyfriend. Wouldn't THAT have been wild? The film's director, Susan Johnson, saw the chemistry between Centineo and Lana Condor, who plays Lara Jean, and knew Josh was definitely not going to be Noah's character. “When we did chemistry reads, I knew I loved Israel and I knew I loved Noah, but I wasn’t sure who would play which role,” Johnson told IndieWire.“I initially was thinking of Noah for Josh, because I thought, ‘Oh, he seems like boy next door,’ but then once I saw Lana and Noah’s chemistry I knew we had to go that direction. Israel was great with Janel. I thought that fit really well.” She's so right though, their chemistry is unreal.

2) That cute moment where Peter moves the popcorn before the pillow fight? Yeah, that was improv.

After a tweet about how sweet the little move was surfaced, Netflix's See What's Next Twitter page quoted the tweet to let us know of this little fun fact. Thank you so much for making my unrealistic love for Peter THAT much worse.

3) Sorry to burst the Lara Jean & Peter bubble, but Lana Condor has had a boyfriend for 3 years who writes her love notes.

Honestly, what's a girl gotta do to get a boy to write some cute notes, huh? Lana has had a serious BF for 3 years now, who is also an actor named Anthony De La Torre. "He’s done that since we started dating and I keep them all," she said in an interview with Us Weekly."We try to keep the spark alive!"

4) The movie was a book first, written by Jenny Han, who also made a cameo in the movie during the dance scene.

Yes, she is in the dancing scene but it's super quick. Her re-telling of the scene is hilarious, though. "It was a little bit nerve-wracking because I’ve never done that before—but it was funny because my scene was at the dance scene, so the kids were pretty young because it was a flash-back," Han told The Mary Sue."I was standing there with them the whole time and I kept trying to hype them up and be like, ‘Guys, this is supposed to be fun! Please, dance harder! Really get into it!’ And everyone at that age is so self-conscious, especially having to dance on cue in front of strangers and they were all real kids, they weren’t, like, actors." OMG, amazing.

5) Noah asked Lana to run lines with him in the pre-read before auditions and she actually rejected him!

How hilarious is this? Lana recalls her first meeting with Noah and how she quickly turned him down but with good reason, kinda. "For the pre-read, when I first met Noah and he asked me to read lines with him, I was sitting in the waiting room," she told Vulture."And I saw this beautiful tall man walk through the door. I immediately clocked that he clocked me, and he walked over to me. And I was like, No, don’t come over here. Don’t come over here. Don’t come over here. I have to focus! So when he asked me to read lines with him—and, you know, Noah is so swaggy, he’s so chill and so cool—he was like, “You wanna read lines with me?” and I just said, “Yeah, sorry, no.” I was just wanted to focus, and I didn’t want to get distracted by this cute guy." LOL.

Little did she know she'd be running lines with him later, anyway. "But then, when I did my chemistry read, and I found out he was gonna be in the room with me reading with me, I was horrified, because I was like, 'Oh my God, this is the guy that I turned down, and now [it’s] the chemistry read, and he’s gonna hate me.' And the first read with him, I knew immediately he was gonna be cast. Immediately. He was so good." Awwww!

6) Noah gained nearly 1M new Instagram followers in 24 hours right after the film was released.

Holy. Shit. That's a lot of people crushin' on Peter, am I right? Luckily, Noah doesn't seem to care, so at least we know the fame hasn't gone to his head. "It hasn’t really affected me yet," he said."Whatever the numbers are, it’s just a device, you know? It’s not like all of a sudden, I have 2.4 million people with me all the time. Nothing’s really changed in my day to day."

7) Jenny Han fought hard for Asian American representation in her film and won.

Nothing like a heartwarming fact to end this article. Han wanted an Asian American lead and toldPEOPLE she had to turn down several offers for the film because they wanted to whitewash Lara's character. It wasn't until Overbrook Entertainment, Will Smith's company, picked up the offer and partnered with Awesomeness Films and was stoked on Lara Jean's role, along with her sisters. “At that point, it was great because we all had the same vision for it,” she says, “and the fact that the lead was Asian American wasn’t seen as a liability. It was something they were excited about.” Incredible.

If you haven't watched To All The Boys I've Loved Before yet, what are you waiting for?! I'm on my way to go watch it again, TBH, and no, this isn't the 50th time I've watched it. Let me live.