Fall may be giving way to winter, but The Summer I Turned Pretty is still top of mind for many of thePrime Video dramas fans. They can thank Jenny Han for that. The creator of the cultural phenomenon celebrated her series September finale by announcing a film one that almost nobody knew about beforehand.

I really wanted to have this big moment, she says of the Paris finale party, where the poster switched to read from The Summer I Turned Pretty to The Summer I Turned Pretty: The Movie just before the screening ended. The craziest thing about it was that there were so many fans outside, but they were so focused on looking at Chris [Briney] and Lola [Tung] taking a picture that nobody was looking at the marquee. Han sat down to discuss her well-kept secret and one of her series more significant episodes during a recent installment of THRPresents. After a screening of Last Dance, the season three episode told from the perspective of Brineys Conrad Fisher, Han talked about why she chose the episode as her directorial debut and the note she gave Briney about his performance.

One of the notes I gave during the peaches scene was for him to memorize her face, she says of the fruit stand moment his character shared with TungsIsabel Belly Conklin. Theres a certain kind of dreamy quality to his point of view and the way he looks at her. You see how precious she is to him, how beautiful, how dear. [The episode] often feels like youre in a memory, and thats what I want the show to do as well that feeling of nostalgia.

That Han would be keen to evoke feelings of nostalgia isnt a shocker for her viewers. What may be more of a surprise is a film she took visual cues from in directing that episode:Terrence Malicks The Tree of Life. Even more unexpected is one of her tonal inspirations.

Its like a mafia movie, she says, Like Heat. One more heist and then [hes] outta here.

Over the course of the conversation, seen in full in the video above, Han also talked about song choices in the final season, navigating all of the attention amid the third seasons spike in popularity and why she feels a movie, not another season, is the right way to continue her story.

This edition of THR Presents is sponsored by Prime Video.