Emily in Paris is a popular TV series aired on Netflix, that became really popular due to its casual plot, and fashion trends featured in it.
So, let’s find out more about “Emily in Paris”.
- The plot is about a young American woman from the Midwest, who is hired by a marketing firm in Paris to provide them with an American perspective on things.
- Emily is played by the famous actress, Lilly Collins.
- Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu and Ashley Park star along with Lilly Collins.
- The creator is Darren Star.
- He has also created “Sex and The City”.
- Gabriel is played by 32-year-old Lucas Bravo.
- He is Emily’s hot downstairs neighbour/Emily’s friend’s boyfriend/Emily’s love interest.
- Bravo’s character manages to impress Emily with his cooking early on in the series.
- It turns out he also used to be a chef in real life.
- Speaking to Manny The Movie Guy, he revealed he was a sous chef in a restaurant a few years ago.
- When he first got the scripts, he was like, ‘Oh, wow, this is definitely for me, as he felt like he would definitely going to use these skills.
- One particular hotel commonly featured on the show – HÔTEL PLAZA ATHÉNÉE is famous for its reputation in being a popular hotel in the fashion industry.
- It is located on the street Avenue Montaigne.
- This hotel is where Christian Dior opened its first boutique transforming the areas as the city’s ‘Avenue of Fashion’.
- Christian Dior also held many of his fashion shows and photoshoots at the hotel.
- Cadault’s fashion week looks are modelled on the 2019 Paris Couture Week show created by Dutch designers Victor & Rolf.
- Darren Star brought back SATC costume designer Patricia Field to work on Emily in Paris.
- When Emily wears the tulle skirt at her first big work party, it’s paying homage to Carrie’s tulle skirt in the series finale of Sex and the City, Field revealed.
- Her ‘Emily’ earrings are also a nod to Bradshaw’s famous ‘Carrie’ necklace.
- Emily’s best friend is Mindy.
- She’s a nanny and aspiring singer, and is portrayed by Ashley Park.
- Her CV boasts a long list of impressive Broadway credits including her 2014 debut in Mamma Mia!, The King and I in 2015, and most notably her role as Gretchen Wieners in the Mean Girls musical.
- The last one bagged her a Tony Award nomination in 2018.
- Production on the show began in August 2019.
- It actually lasted untl November.
- Ashley Park, Lucas Bravo and Samuel Arnold all ended up living together while filming on location in Paris.
- Samuel Arnold portrayed Julien.
- “We moved in together and it was just so much fun,” Bravo revealed.
- Emily initially struggles at work because she can’t speak a word of French.
- Lilly Collins though knows hot to speak French.
- “I used to speak and dream in French, read in French, and was pretty fluent,” she told Glamour.
- She then stopped practicing, but maybe this is her chance to start practicing again.
- The opera moment took everyone’s breath away on set
- Antoine Lambert is the head of a fancy French parfumerie.
- He is portrayed by French actor William Abadie.
- He’s appeared in lots of TV roles, including ER, The OC, Gotham, Homeland, Entourage and Ugly Betty.
- He also played Blair Waldorf’s stepfather Roman in Gossip Girl.
- The series was filmed entirely in Paris and all of the famous landmarks you see were shot on-site.
- Mindy wasn’t originally meant to sing in the show, but Star later wrote it into her character’s storyline.
- Emily’s boss, Madeline, Madeline – played by Kate Walsh – is known from her roles in Grey’s Anatomy and more recently 13 Reasons Why and also as The Handler in The Umbrella Academy.
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