"XO, Kitty," The "To All The Boys" Spinoff Just Hit Netflix — Here Are 15 Facts About Series Star Anna Cathcart
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Let's be real, Anna Cathcart was always one of the best parts of the To All the Boys I've Loved Before movies — literally no one could top her hilarious one liners.
So, it's no surprise that her character, Kitty Song Covey, is the one to finally get a well-deserved spinoff series, XO, Kitty.
To celebrate her already-iconic performance, here are 15 facts you probably never knew about her:
1.First, she was born on June 16, 2003 and is a Gemini.
2.She grew up in Vancouver and currently attends college at University of British Columbia where she's double majoring in sociology and creative writing.
3.Before working on the To All the Boys movies, she was a regular on the PBS series Odd Squad. She played Agent Olympia.
Odd Squad was also the first TV show she'd ever auditioned for.
4.On her first day of shooting XO, Kitty, she filmed the scene in Korea where Kitty struggles to get her suitcase up the stairs. Funnily enough, a bystander saw her having trouble with her bag, bypassed security, and came over to help her because he didn't know she was acting for a TV series.
"He literally picked up my suitcase and brought it to the front of the stairs," she told BuzzFeed. "I was like, 'What is happening?!' I didn't know to tell him [this was a TV set], but I felt bad because I didn't say thank you because I was so stunned. Then, he kept walking off the set, and everyone was dying of laughter."
5.Anna is "half Chinese and half Irish," so her hair is naturally auburn, and when she was first cast in To All the Boys, production asked her if she'd be willing to dye her hair black to match Lana Condor's hair. Together, she and her mom thought it was a dealbreaker and decided against it, which she later felt was a very Kitty thing to do.
She explained that her mom was worried that if she dyed her hair, it wouldn't grow back the same way. "We decided to stand our ground and say, 'We really don't want to change that part of Anna,'" she told Bustle.
6.She's still very close with her To All the Boys costars and even reached out to Lana Condor and Janel Parrish, who play her onscreen sisters, for advice on leading a series. She said, "I gained two big sisters, and I’m literally so grateful for that."
7.Her very first audition was when she was 6 years old, and it was for a commercial advertising a Little Mermaid Barbie doll.
8.Back when she was 10 years old, she starred in a Crayola chalk commercial and remembers it as the "greatest day of [her] life." She said that was the pivotal moment where she realized she wanted to pursue acting as a career.
9.Back when Netflix announced she'd be getting her own series XO, Kitty, one of the first celebs to reach out and congratulate her was Simu Liu.
10.While filming the series, Anna had to move to Seoul on her own for four months, after only ever living with her parents, and she said this whole experience made her feel more like her onscreen counterpart than ever before.
11.She and her XO, Kitty castmates bonded a ton — hanging out after filming, singing karaoke, and eating fried chicken became a ritual for them.
12.Her first celeb crush was Shawn Mendes.
13.And her first fictional movie crush was Lucas Till's character Travis from Hannah Montana: The Movie.
"He's, like, everything you could ever want. He's the cowboy, and he's the cutest, and he's just — love him!" she added.
14.She loves writing comedy, as well as stories for kids and young adults, which stems from her love for Disney Channel shows.
15.And finally, Anna wants to change the stereotype about characters who are "nerdy" because they wear glasses. She wants young viewers to see her onscreen and realize that "pretty" girls wear glasses, too.
And if you can't get enough of Anna, be sure to catch her in XO, Kitty which is currently streaming on Netflix.
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