Peter Thurnwald joined KRLD's What to Watch team to talk about his character 'Alex' in the Netflix series 'XO,Kitty', a spin-off from 'To All the Boys I've Loved'.
So how was it filming on location in Korea?
Korea is so amazing. If you had not been to Korea, you need to go like next week because there is so much to do. And I don't think for even one second when we weren't filming, like we would always be hanging out, whether that was in the hotel together or we'd go exploring. And because we also filmed not just in Seoul but a whole bunch of different locations around. So it really gave us a good sense of the city, the community, the culture as well. It's just such an incredible place to be just for food and and things to do every day. So I would highly recommend you go.
Your character in the show is searching for his birth family. And interestingly, you're also searching for your birth family in real life. So could you tell us the story behind that?
So I'm an adopted Korean. I was adopted at six months by my two beautiful parents. And basically I didn't think much of it until I was 19, when I had a very early quarter life crisis, as I think most young adolescents have somewhat of their identity and not really knowing what they want to do. But kind of as that feeling grew, I really was this I was this close to just booking a flight to Korea, going and trying to find my mother. The big issue with this situation is that I really don't know much about her at all. I know that she was very young and that I hope it brought her a little bit more stability, maybe giving me away. But I didn't get left with a lost name. So I know my Korean names for your child. But Kim, which is on my birth certificate, apparently is not the actual last name that I would have had. So of course, that makes it incredibly hard to track down ancestry tests, especially in the U.S. and Australia. You know, they don't go down into like the genetic level of especially somewhere in Asia. They tend to just be like, Oh, you are from Asia. And I'm like, Yes, I knew that. And that makes everything a little more difficult, of course. But I think as the as I was working on Katie and being back in Korea, that started to kind of spur a little bit more passion to be like, oh, you know. I'm not actively looking right now because I feel like in my own life, I, my parents, my adoptive parents have been so fantastic in raising me in Australia. But like I said, it's it's starting to kind of. Like there's a small little light that's beginning to shine that I might want to start search again and look a lot more seriously this time.
Find our full interview with Peter Thurnwald here.
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