Since gaining legions of fans for playing Elle, the lovestruck teen at the centre of Netflix’s 2018 film The Kissing Booth , Joey King has been very, very busy. After the original film became a sleeper hit, King shaved her head (for the second time in her life) and starred alongside Emmy winner Patricia Arquette in Hulu’s true crime-inspired series The Act . Soon after her stirring performance as a daughter whose mother is suffering from Munchausen syndrome by proxy, King found herself invited to Oscar parties and nominated for both an Emmy and a Golden Globe. While she didn’t win a golden trophy, she’d certainly opened her career to new possibilities. Now, she’s returning the teen rom-com circuit with the J uly 24 release of The Kissing Booth 2 , and that move comes with yet another career milestone: an executive producer title.