From June 2017 to autumn 2018, Joey King (Shelly 'Elle' Evans), and Jacob Elordi (Noah Flynn) were dating in real life.
Beth Reekles was fifteen years old when she began publishing her story, The Kissing Booth, online on Wattpad, an online community for readers and writers. The story was later picked up by Penguin Random House.
Although the character Noah Flynn (Jacob Elordi) is the older brother to Lee Flynn (Joel Courtney), Joel is actually one year older than Jacob, being born in 1996 while Jacob was born in 1997.
During the detention scene the students in the background are all dressed like the cast of The Breakfast Club (Ally Sheedy, Molly Ringwald, Emilo Estevez, Anthony Michael Hall and Judd Nelson).
During the Prom, a version of Simple Minds song, 'Don't You (Forget About Me)' is played. The song was previously used in John Hughes's 1980s classic, Clube dos Cinco (1985), which also starred actress Molly Ringwald (who plays Mrs. Flynn is this film).