‘The Summer I Turned Pretty’’s Lola Tung Shares Sweet Taylor Swift Story on ‘Tonight Show’ (Exclusive)

Lola Tung of The Summer I Turned Pretty is revealing Taylor Swift‘s reaction to spotting her at The Eras Tour in 2023.

Tung, 22, Gavin Casalegno, and Christopher Briney appeared on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon on Tuesday, July 15, ahead of the premiere of the show’s third and final season.

“We were right by the stage, and she looked at us, and she kind of waved and was like, ‘I love you guys,’” Tung said, gesturing a heart with her hands that Swift did in their direction on stage at the time. “I nearly passed out. It was great.”

She said she attended the concert with Jenny Han, who wrote the 2009 novel that the hit Prime Video show is based on.

“We were right by the stage when she played ‘False God,’ which was also on the show,” Tung said, which was met with applause.

When Fallon asked Tung if she had a favorite Swift song featured on The Summer I Turned Pretty, she had a hard time choosing.

“‘The Way I Loved You’ is a great one. ‘Delicate’ is great as well,” Tung said.

“I’ve been a Taylor Swift fan for a really long time. I used to listen to Fearless, Speak Now and Red on my CD player when I was younger. When I would go to sleep, I would listen to them,” the actress previously told PEOPLE exclusively in 2023.

Swift’s discography, which highlights the nuances of young womanhood and the complexity of romantic relationships through the ages, has played an important role inThe Summer I Turned Pretty. The show focuses on a love triangle between brothers Conrad Fisher (Briney, 27) and Jeremiah Fisher (Casalegno, 25) and their childhood friend Belly Conklin (Tung), and the fallout of the love triangle’s melodrama on their family and friends.

In a trailer for the show’s third and final season, Conrad is seen consulting Belly’s best friend Taylor (Rain Spencer) for advice about his plan to come back into Belly’s life – and presumably fight for their love.

The trailer features two Swift songs. “Daylight” from Lover soundtracks the first montage of Jeremiah, while Swift’s title track from Red is played during Conrad’s entrance.

A notable lyric from the track is “loving him comes in flashbacks, and echoes,” mirroring Belly’s narration heard in the trailer.

Han, 44, who also serves as co-showrunner of the Prime Video series, told Jenna Bush Hager on her podcast Open Book in January that she “knew what song I wanted” for that scene from the get-go when she was “pitching out the season.”

“I was kinda trying to, like, inception it into everyone’s heads that this is what we — that we need this,” she said, noting she was willing to do “whatever it took to get it.”

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She then revealed she once “wrote a handwritten note” to the singer and explained “how much it would mean — not just to me, but I thought to the fans. That was the gift I really wanted to give, because I’m like, they’re gonna go crazy for this.”

Several songs from Swift’s discography have appeared in the show, including “Back to December,” “False God,” “Delicate,” “Hey Stephen” and “Cruel Summer.”

The first two episodes of season 3 of The Summer I Turned Pretty will premiere on Prime Video on Wednesday, July 16.