Love, Simon Trivia | 40 facts about the movie

One of the most popular teen movies on Netflix is “Love, Simon”. The movie is about Simon Spier, and his life as a teenager.

Let’s find out more about “Love, Simon”!

1. The plot is about Simon Spier, who keeps a huge secret from his family, his friends and all of his classmates: he’s gay. When that secret is threatened, Simon must face everyone and come to terms with his identity.
2. The director of the movie is Greg Berlanti.
3. This was the first film produced by a major Hollywood studio to feature a gay teenage protagonist.
4. Nick Robinson portrays Simon.
5. Just as the film went into production, Nick Robinson’s younger brother came out as gay.
6. Other “big” names are Jennifer Garner and Josh Duhamel.
7. Jennifer Garner’s “exhale” speech wasn’t originally included in the film: there was just one ‘parent scene’, and a scene with the dad.
8. When Jennifer became interested in the role of Emily, she asked director Greg Berlanti for a scene that has her connect with Simon, so they built it again and wrote what would become essentially the message of the movie.
9. Keiynan Lonsdale (Bram) was inspired to publicly come out through his involvement in this film.
10. Director Greg Berlanti revealed in an interview that there were clips of the “friend group” (Simon, Leah, Abby, and Nick) that were filmed without the actors’ knowledge.
11. In order to capture the authenticity of a group of friends beyond the confines of acting, the director would sometimes tell the actors to “cut” but have the cameras keep rolling. Many of these unscripted interactions of friends just being friends.
12. This includes the dancing in the car scene made the final cut.
13. The production code for the film was “Blue,” which is the pseudonym of the person Simon E-mails.
14. Although the movie is titled “Love, Simon,” it was actually an adaptation of the book “Simon vs. The Homosapiens Agenda.”
15. The movie originally had the same name as the book, but it was too long to say, hence the name change.
16. The words “hour to hour note to note” can be seen written on Simon’s wall, which is a nod to the E-mail (“hourtohour.notetonote@gmail.com”) Simon used in the book to talk to Blue. It was changed in the film to “frommywindow1@gmail.com.”
17. In Simon’s bedroom there is an Elliott Smith poster which is a nod to Simon’s favorite musician from the book, which he shares with Blue and later connects him with Blue.
18. In Simon’s bedroom, there is a copy of Becky Albertalli’s (the author of “Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda”) second novel, “The Upside of Unrequited” on his bookshelf.
19. “The Upside of Unrequieted” also takes place in the “Simon-verse” and revolves around Abby’s cousins.
20. Singer Shawn Mendes was invited to audition for the role of Simon but was allegedly unable to do so, as he did not have enough time.
21. Colton Haynes had a small role in a deleted scene as man who approaches Simon at a gay bar, mistaking him for someone else he knows, and ends up asking Simon to dance. The scene is included in the film’s home video release.
22. Love, Simon marks the second time major studio 20th Century Fox has made a film that showcases a sympathetic portrayal of a leading homosexual character coming to terms with his orientation and ending on a happy note.
23. The first was Making Love (1982) in 1982.
24. In the international trailer voice-over, Blue refers to Simon as Simon, not Jacques.
25. Simon’s coming out dream sequence is to Whitney Houston’s “I Wanna Dance With Somebody.”
26. His movie mom, Jennifer Garner, gets ready for a night out on the town to the same song in the movie 13 going… 30 (2004).
27. It was confirmed by Becky Albertalli (author of “Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda”) that Simon only wears glasses in flashbacks, compared to the book where he always wears glasses.
28. emple Hill Entertainment, who produced the movie, is known for adapting other young adult novels such as “The fault in our stars”.
29. In the closing scene to the movie, when Simon and his friends drive off through the neighborhood, they drive by the house that was used in The life as we know it (2010), which starred Josh Duhamel who plays Simon’s dad.
30. On Simon’s bedroom door, there’s a poster for the 2007 Of Montreal album, “Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer?”. It is an album about a transgender rock star.
31. The band is known for its flamboyant stage personae, and frontman, Kevin Barnes, has always been misconstrued as bisexual, but that band are advocates for LGBTQ+ rights.
32. Katherine Langford and Miles Heizer previously starred together in the Netflix Original series 13 reasons why(2017).
33. Originally Blake Neely, the general composer for director Greg Berlanti’s TV shows, was attached to score the film.
34. Simon has a theatre program for “Hamilton” displayed in his bedroom next to the window.
35. This movie premiered at the Mardi Gras Film Festival on February 27, 2018.
36. This was the second project where director Greg Berlanti and Josh Duhamel worked together.
37. In the movie, Simon has a recurring dream about Daniel Radcliffe, who starred as Harry Potter in the “Harry Potter” franchise. On his wall, Simon has a Hufflepuff crest, one of the four houses in “Harry Potter.”
38. The college that Simon dreams about coming out at is “Liberal University.”
39. One of the stickers on Simon’s bedroom wall is a picture of a banana. This is the cover art to the first The Velvet Underground album, created by Andy Warhol (who was also that band’s manager and producer when that album came out in 1967). Warhol was gay, making this an appropriate sticker for Simon’s room.
40. Spier, Simon’s surname, is Dutch for muscle.