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Centineo also looks and, eerily, sounds just like another certified romantic-comedy leading man: Mark Ruffalo.
Centineo knows he has an ineffable Ruffalo-ness, that kind of easy geniality and aw shucks demeanor.
Does it ever get old?
No, he laughs.
Oh my God, my dream would be doing a film with him as his son or something.
TheAll the Boysstar talked to Vulture about crushes, high school, and of course, Mark Ruffalo.
I love the name Peter Kavinsky.
It just rolls off the tongue.Peter Kavinsky!
So you hear about this project and then what happened?
And then I met Lana and it was sealed!
I had to be a part of it.
Can you tell me about your first meeting?We were both auditioning for it.
Neither one of us were attached yet, and I remember sitting in the audition room.
I wanted to run lines with someone because I hadnt run it yet.
So I was like, Hey, do you want to run lines?
It was just us two in the waiting room, and she was like, No, no thanks!
How were those chemistry reads?
You both fit so well together as Peter and Lara Jean.It was pretty fun.
It felt very natural.
I remember seeing her face and poking fun at that and being like, What is that!
Like, What is this face you are doing?
The judgy-face line in the film, that was improv-ed from the chemistry read.
Thats such a specific and funny detail to me.
Okay, thats what Im saying!
All the cool high-school boys have Jeeps.I guess so!
My sister drove a Jeep.
She was a pretty cool high-school girl.
I drive a Mini Cooper.
Were you cool in high school?Nah, not really.
Its okay if you were you’re free to admit it.I dont think so.
So, like a rebel?It was like neither a rebel nor a conformist.
I was working a good amount so I couldnt balance school.
Have you written love letters?
What did they say?Oh man, hundreds of different things.
Some of them are like one-liners like, I love you endlessly.
And Id leave it in her room to find.
Have you ever played matchmaker, like Kitty?Not like Kitty.
I stayed out of peoples love lives after that.
The other thing I wanted to talk about was how much you remind me of Mark Ruffalo.
Its uncanny, and Im not the only one whospointed it out.
Have you heard that before?Its not conscious!
But I get it all the time.
]Like before Hulk even.
And maybe part of it is doing them at our age, too.
I was like,Dude you dont even know.
So I get there and they put me in this incredible suit.
They give me gold rings and necklaces, my hair is slicked back, and I look all Cubano.
She had so much energy.
Childish is using music as a vehicle to discuss injustices in the world right now.
For me, that makes it the song of the summer.
Drake drops an album and you are like,This is incredible.
This Is America was insane and created tsunami waves.
It had a message behind it that he doesnt comment on.
Hes like, Thats not for me to tell you what it is.
Things get lost in translation.
Do you think youre the same way?Its funny.
No, I think I used to.
Over the years, Ive tried to work on that.
Tried how?Just to be more open, to be more conscious.
In relationships sometimes I would just shut down.
I wouldnt explain why.
Thats the cool thing about relationships.
Youre relating to someone else.
Its another thing to balance who you are off of.
Can you tell me about your most devastating crush?A crush or love?
If you wanna talk about love, thats fine, too.I mean, theyre different.
To me, a crush … like this girl Carly when I was like 10 years old.
I remember sitting thinking,Dang, she doesnt like me …
Okay, yeah, Im over it.And that was that.
It was the most incredible relationship ever.
It was like super positive, super toxic, all over the place, passionate.
That almost kills you to go through something like that.
Lets end on a happier note.
I love that whole world and I see myself continuing this.
Peters favorite movie isFight Cluband Lara Jean lovesSixteen Candles.
Whats your favorite movie?Honestly,Loveby Gaspar Noe, and then my second one isTheMatrix.
