While filming "Dalíland," Christopher Briney landed his second professional role. He was brought on to play Conrad Fisher, the love interest, in the teen phenomenon "The Summer I Turned Pretty." He had submitted a self-tape for the role and then did a chemistry read with the rest of the cast.
Even though "Dalíland" saw Christopher Briney acting opposite Ben Kingsley, it was a small project that didn't exactly prepare him for the mania of "The Summer I Turned Pretty." For one thing, "Dalíland" wasn't exactly a blockbuster. "The second you step onto a TV set like 'The Summer I Turned Pretty,' you're like, 'oh, man there's a guaranteed audience here,'" he said in Boys By Girls. "It was weird... but luckily, I didn't understand the scope of it at the time."
Soon enough, however, he realized just how popular the "The Summer I Turned Pretty" books really were. "It was kind of terrifying," he said in 1883, adding, "I think what helped me come to terms with other people's opinions about that was reminding myself that it's all just words on a page and no two people are the same, so they're never going to be picturing the same person or the same tone or the same way someone says something. It's just impossible."
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