Is yuri from xo kitty gay in real life
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They literally have a slow-mo K-drama meet cute at the start that's reminiscent of how Peter and Lara Jean first meet in To All the Boys I've Loved Before.
In other words, Kitty is canonically bi!
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XO Kitty’s Gia Kim on That Shocking Yuri & Kitty Scene & What It Means for Season 3
Spoilers ahead for XO, Kitty.
Last season, Yuri built a solid friendship with Dae and forged a connection with her newly discovered half-brother, Alex, but neither of them are given the opportunity to be the confidante that Yuri so desperately needs.
What’s particularly frustrating about this season of XO, Kitty is that it devotes too much screen time to Min Ho’s dad, a mega-rich talent manager — “the Kris Jenner of Korea” — who brings his money and his reality show to KISS.
Kitty being bi was canon and was always where the story was going."
A fan has since proved that the comment is actually from Jenny Han's official TikTok account in a video on Twitter.
If that weren't iconic enough, Jenny has also posted numerous Kitty/Yuri fan edits to her Instagram stories.
If you rewatch XO, Kitty, you'll notice there are multiple details that prove Kitty was immediately drawn to Yuri.
And, certainly, there is some of that, particularly as Kitty volleys from one prospective love interest to another, but the show doesn’t wallow in the chaos.
Ahead, Kim talked to StyleCaster about the buildup that led to Yuri kissing Kitty, and if we’ll ever see them romantically together in the show.
After Season 1, I think Yuri has become one of the most iconic Gen Z Asian queer characters. It felt like an attempt to inject more K-Pop energy into the show which I don’t think it needed.
I think when I thought of it that way, it relieved a lot of burden on myself to have figured out everything beforehand.
A major turning point in the season is Yuri kissing Kitty after they discover who Simon is. I’d been lulled into a false sense of understanding by the heavily boy-centric narrative of the To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before trilogy — which center Kitty’s older sister, Lara Jean (Lana Condor) — and the start of this series.
At the moment when Kitty’s crush starts to foment, she doesn’t know that Yuri’s relationship with Dae is just a ruse to keep the truth of Yuri’s sexuality — she’s gay — and her girlfriend, Juliana (Regan Aliyah), hidden from her parents. I’d have much preferred spending more time with Kitty’s long-lost Korean family and the familial history of matchmakers.
I haven’t watched recent rom-coms, but I would say K-dramas from the early 2000s like Secret Garden, Boys Over Flowers, or Lovers in Paris. Thankfully, though, Yuri intercedes on Kitty’s behalf, convincing her mother — who was the school’s principal — to give Kitty another chance.
One thing about Kitty Song Covey hasn’t changed, though: she’s as open to love — from boys or girls — as she’s ever been, only this time, she wants to avoid all the drama.
Quick to clear things up, Jenny Han, who created XO, Kitty and wrote the To All the Boys I've Loved Before books, replied: "Definitely was not added for representation. I don’t even know if her family’s financial situation hit her yet. XO, Kitty is a saccharine sweet show, sometimes cloyingly so.
What rom-coms do you think XO, Kitty is a mix of and which rom-com do you want the next season to be inspired by?
Honestly, the enemies-to-lovers trope is so common in K-dramas that I feel like I could say anything and it would fit that trope. I feel like that journey in itself is a beautiful thing too.
Yuri is trying to find herself and is kind of going on this journey of self-discovery and goes through this sort of tumultuous time with Juliana, what was it like to channel all those confusing emotions?
I don’t know if I can articulate it quite well, because everything was an instinctual process.
Kitty’s return to KISS wasn’t a foregone conclusion: at the end of last semester, she was expelled for living in the boys’ dorm, a violation of her scholarship’s conduct policy. If we do have season three, maybe it’s time for her to deal with what it’s like not having the financial privilege that she’s always had.
Kitty doesn’t know any of that but later that night, she has a “sex dream” about her enemy turned wanna-be lover.
Television rarely surprises me anymore. That’s really disappointing, and I feel like that’s always on her mind. It’s a mixed bag.
XO, Kitty‘s second season picks up one month after its first.
However, we have to shoot this very momentous scene for both characters. In the end, the director was lovely. But online, I have fans sending me long stories of their personal journeys with their sexuality, how the show came into their life at the time when they needed to watch it, how it gave them solace, and that they’re not going through it alone.
I can tell from how they write those messages that it’s very personal for them, and they were being very vulnerable when they’re sharing it with me.
“Many people, at least in North America, have watched it already.