diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2020-09-27-22-23-14.bpo-41870.2v6_v4.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2020-09-27-22-23-14.bpo-41870.2v6_v4.rst
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..13a6bb04a28
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2020-09-27-22-23-14.bpo-41870.2v6_v4.rst	
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+Speed up calls to ``bool()`` by using the :pep:`590` ``vectorcall`` calling
+convention. Patch by Dong-hee Na.
diff --git a/Objects/boolobject.c b/Objects/boolobject.c
index 720835b98aa..ab7669cb240 100644
--- a/Objects/boolobject.c
+++ b/Objects/boolobject.c
@@ -55,6 +55,30 @@ bool_new(PyTypeObject *type, PyObject *args, PyObject *kwds)
     return PyBool_FromLong(ok);
 }
 
+static PyObject *
+bool_vectorcall(PyObject *type, PyObject * const*args,
+                size_t nargsf, PyObject *kwnames)
+{
+    long ok = 0;
+    if (!_PyArg_NoKwnames("bool", kwnames)) {
+        return NULL;
+    }
+
+    Py_ssize_t nargs = PyVectorcall_NARGS(nargsf);
+    if (!_PyArg_CheckPositional("bool", nargs, 0, 1)) {
+        return NULL;
+    }
+
+    assert(PyType_Check(type));
+    if (nargs) {
+        ok = PyObject_IsTrue(args[0]);
+    }
+    if (ok < 0) {
+        return NULL;
+    }
+    return PyBool_FromLong(ok);
+}
+
 /* Arithmetic operations redefined to return bool if both args are bool. */
 
 static PyObject *
@@ -170,6 +194,7 @@ PyTypeObject PyBool_Type = {
     0,                                          /* tp_init */
     0,                                          /* tp_alloc */
     bool_new,                                   /* tp_new */
+    .tp_vectorcall = bool_vectorcall,
 };
 
 /* The objects representing bool values False and True */