Kitty Music Covey’s fascinating love life has nothing on the “XO, Kitty” solid’s real-life friendships. In response to Anna Cathcart, who has portrayed Kitty on display screen for the reason that first “To All of the Boys I’ve Liked Earlier than” film made its Netflix debut in 2018, the bond she shares together with her castmates has made her journey because the character all of the extra worthwhile. “I’m actually so grateful for all of them as a result of they made such an enormous distinction,” she tells POPSUGAR. “It is truthfully what makes the expertise on the finish: the individuals that you just meet and the friendships that you just make.”

On display screen, Cathcart and her costars — Gia Kim, Min-young Choi, Sang Heon Lee, Anthony Keyvan, and Jocelyn Shelfo — are inseparable. Even when their characters get on one another’s nerves or discover themselves entangled in a sophisticated love triangle (learn: love sq.), they cannot assist however keep concerned in one another’s lives. When the cameras minimize, that tether stays simply as robust.

“The truth that individuals nonetheless wished to proceed hanging out and be like, ‘Yeah, I do know we simply spent the whole 16-hour workday collectively, however let’s nonetheless have dinner collectively,’ was so particular and, I feel, uncommon,” Cathcart says. On one event, she and Keyvan even booked a last-minute flight to see their “XO, Kitty” billboard in Occasions Sq. collectively simply days after seeing one another on set — proof that just about any time spent aside is an excessive amount of. “[The group chat] is loads of like, ‘The place are we going tonight? What’s occurring tomorrow? I am right here,'” she says.

Along with planning day by day dinners, the solid often cross their time on set with sing-alongs of their make-up chairs — often with Cathcart or Lee on the aux — and numerous inside jokes. She provides that the solid have even provide you with code phrases and code names to talk to one another whereas they’re mic’d. “There’s, like, sure songs that now I am going to hear and I am going to really feel like I am again on set,” she says. “One is ‘Zoom’ by Jessi, which is Ok-pop and it is such an upbeat hype music. And when that is performed, everyone seems to be like, ‘We’re on the “XO, Kitty” set,’ like, ‘We’re again.’ I feel even in like 50 years, you’ll be able to play that and I will be like, ‘I miss everyone.'”

Once they’re not on set, the group divide their time between having tea at Lee’s house and educating one another the best way to prepare dinner completely different meals. “Anthony made all of us pasta one night time. That is considered one of, like, my favourite core recollections of the entire expertise,” Cathcart says. “All of us sat round on the ground of his resort and ate home made meals and all of us simply, like, acquired to know one another as a result of we had been nonetheless comparatively new. And I keep in mind feeling like that is what it means to have a household of mates, to have such a tremendous, supportive group of individuals. It was so cute.”

Wanting again on her expertise filming season one, Cathcart says it is these small moments which have caught together with her probably the most. “It is so humorous to look again on it now and keep in mind all of the little issues,” she says. “These had been a number of the finest moments: all of the small issues which can be actually not small in the long run as a result of they’ve the largest influence.”

The solid’s fast bond is very heartwarming contemplating lots of them lived on completely different continents and had solely met on Zoom previous to filming. “I met Gia first,” she remembers, including that that they had their first encounter at their resort. For Cathcart and Kim, the connection was instantaneous. “We simply had been, like, saying congratulations to one another and being like, ‘I am so excited for you.’ She was like, ‘I am so excited for you!’ It was simply an excellent feeling of: we’re about to begin an journey collectively.” When it got here to assembly her different castmates, Cathcart was mesmerized by how related they had been to their characters. “Min-young has loads of traits which can be just like Dae, and Sang has so many traits which can be just like Min Ho,” she says. “They had been each such pretty individuals, however it was actually humorous to see that.”

As filming continues, Cathcart says she’s grow to be more and more grateful for this loveliness from her castmates, noting that their variations have made their friendship stronger. “In our group, we even have loads of variety in several methods,” she says. “People who find themselves a part of completely different communities are all, now, a part of one large group. [It’s a mix of] completely different ages and completely different life experiences. To worth variety as a buddy group is basically significant, and it interprets quite a bit into the way you work together and what you guys do and the way understanding and empathetic everybody will be for one another.”

This empathy typically manifests itself in heartfelt talks between scenes. “It was nice to have the ability to discuss your day and have individuals get it, have individuals assist you, and know the emotions that you just’re experiencing or at the very least be empathetic to them and hear,” she says. “When you had a tough day or in case you had been burdened with one thing, everybody understands that, which is basically necessary to have throughout a journey like that.” She provides, “I feel having individuals who perceive you and who hear you is essential.”

Additional demonstrating their love for one another, the solid even shocked Cathcart with the “finest birthday” of her life when she turned 19 final June. “It was the best; they went all out and had an entire shock,” she says. After a fun-filled dinner and an evening in town, Cathcart’s mates additionally handled her to an “unforgettable” present. “They painted me a skateboard,” she says, including that she’s an avid skater. “They acquired a clean skateboard, they usually all painted it and labored on it and designed it. I got here dwelling on the airplane holding it in bubble wrap.”

As a lot as Cathcart loves her castmates IRL, she additionally holds area in her coronary heart for all the “XO, Kitty” characters, particularly relating to their sophisticated love lives. “If Kitty continues to comply with her coronary heart and does what feels finest for her, I assist whoever she decides, even when that is herself!” she says of the romantic rigidity between Kitty, Min Ho, Yuri, and Dae on the finish of season one. “I feel prioritizing a relationship with herself can also be actually necessary proper now, so I am pleased with Kitty for being alone on the finish of the season and for giving herself the area to determine all of it out.”

“XO, Kitty” season one is presently streaming on Netflix, and it has been renewed for a second season.