PARIS (AP) — “Emily in Paris” fans will get a couple of surprises of their Christmas stockings, when the third season of the hit show arrives on Netflix this Wednesday.
Even the solid were shocked by the variety of cliffhangers in the brand new series once they first read the scripts.
“I’m like, how are we going to film all — like, what?” says Lily Collins, who portrays the titular American marketing executive making her social media presence felt in France.
“Nevertheless it was an actual ride. It was an actual rollercoaster to shoot. And it was really fun too,” she adds.
Season three provides more profession selections, designer dilemmas and romantic revelations for the fashionable female lead character.
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Although Lucas Bravo — who portrays Emily’s full-time neighbor and sometime love interest, the chef Gabriel — reckons that she isn’t the just one wrestling with problems this series.
“Before it was only Emily’s chaos,” says Bravo. “Now everybody has his own story along with his own chaos. And it’s a giant soup of chaos and drama.”
Season one arrived in October 2020, followed by a second last December. Three years into playing their characters, the solid members are keen to indicate where their roles start and finish.
Collins — who can be an executive producer — says that she has at all times slot in higher than Emily in France because she actually knows the language and culture.
Which, with Emily’s questionable French pronunciation, results in tongue twisters.
“It’s a bit bit difficult to pretend such as you don’t know the best way to say something,” Collins explains. “To mispronounce it again and again and another time, it’s like … I just need to answer it fully in French. So it is hard.”
Kate Walsh plays Emily’s American boss Madeline and would love everyone to know that she has very different taste in clothing from her brash and brightly coloured character.
“I’d never dress like that. But I like it since it’s critical to the character,” Walsh says.
Likewise, Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu claims there’s a stark difference between her and her role of Sylvie, Madeline’s trop chic Parisian business rival.
Leroy-Beaulieu says she’s nowhere near as snobbish, regardless that Sylvie’s boastful attitude is “a lot fun.”
But Bravo, in a twist, reckons that every one the actors are more like their characters than they realize: “What’s so good about (showrunner) Darren (Star’s) casting is that he at all times finds, , actors which can be the essence of the characters. So there’s at all times an element of us in every character.”
“I don’t know what the differences are. I feel I’d come clean with my mistakes a bit greater than Gabriel. But we’re very similar in some ways when it comes to vulnerability, femininity and sexiness on the whole,” he jokes.
The third season will encompass 10 episodes.
“Should you like chaos, you’ll be served,” Bravo guarantees.
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