Kitty Covey just isn’t one to fiddle with. The feisty youthful sister in Netflix’s To all of the boys I beloved earlier than… is fast to humiliate everybody round her with brutal honesty, sarcasm and witty one-liners. Anna Cathcart’s efficiency is so compelling that once I first met her on the To tempt workplaces, I actually anticipate to fulfill Kitty in actual life. Not me.
I anticipate the squeak of sneakers, however largely hear the clicking of heels as she arrives. As an alternative of overalls and a T-shirt, she is wearing a plaid two-piece skirt set.
Her auburn hair is styled in a half-up look with free curls falling round her, not the free buns or pigtails Kitty usually sees. Apart from the massive wire body glasses, their types are nothing alike. However off the bat, it is easy to inform that the character and actor at the very least share an affinity with their households — Cathcart has her mom and older sister (her “finest pal for all times”) in tow.
Kitty does not simply march to the beat of her personal drum — she’ll most likely go away the drum equipment for the tuba as an alternative. I see that very same confidence and vibrant power in Cathcart. “Once I’m obsessed with one thing, I am very excited and converse a mile a minute,” she tells me. However there is a extra grown-up vibe about Cathcart off-screen — it is clear she’s not a tween anymore.
Cathcart began enjoying Kitty when she was 14, however now, at age 19, she will get the prospect to steer her personal Netflix collection, XO, Kitty. Because the identify suggests, the present follows the youngest Covey sister. In it, she travels the world to enroll within the South Korean boarding college her late mom as soon as attended (handily, the person she’s been courting lengthy distances for the reason that final installment of the movie trilogy additionally goes there). Kitty must alter to a brand new nation whereas away from her household and discover out that her lover truly has an entire girlfriend – he is advised everybody that Kitty is his pen pal (assistance on bikes).
Whereas she is older than Kitty, who’s 16 on the present, Cathcart famous that her personal private development mirrors Kitty’s in some ways. “In XO, Kitty, [Kitty is] she goes by means of this era of her life the place she is discovering who she is and studying easy methods to be impartial for the primary time,” says Cathcart. “I am in that part too, in numerous methods, however those self same shifts are taking place in my life, so it was actually cool to expertise that collectively.”
