Lucas Bravo is frustrated about what they did to Gabriel's character on "Emily in Paris"
Lucas Bravo is questioning how much freedom he has on “Emily in Paris” - and whether or not he wants to return to the hit Netflix series for its fifth season: https://t.co/UxXdLTN2ic pic.twitter.com/e0PsySdOBB
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“The ‘sexy chef’ was very much part of me in Season 1 and we grew apart season after season because of the choices he makes and because of the direction they make him take. I’ve never been so far away from him. In Season 1, there was a lot of me in him. But as they made him kind of unaware of his surroundings, of the dynamic, always victimizing and always being completely lost in translation and oblivious to anything that is happening around him and being manipulated by everyone, it kind of became not fun for me to shoot or to see a character I love so much and brought me so much, being slowly turned into guacamole. I really grew apart from him.”
“I tried for seasons to bring nuances but we don’t have much liberty on set. We cannot change a word or an emotion. They know what they want and we just have to comply,” Bravo said. “It makes me question if I want to be part of Season 5 […] because my contract ends at Season 4. I really want to see if Gabriel gets back to his fun, cheeky, playful, alive self. Because three seasons playing melancholic, sad, depressed, and lost is not fun anymore. It’s a comedy, everybody is having fun around me, everybody is jumping around, and I’m just slowly sinking into god knows what.”
“They’re probably holding onto something that they couldn’t measure that had such a success so now they are very precious about not changing the recipe and keeping it what it was,” Bravo said. “Anything that could go off road is carefully taken back. It’s a lot of souffles. Pregnant? No, fake positive. Going to Rome? No, coming back. There are a lot of things like that. There is a lack of risk.”
He added, “But I love the show. It started everything for me. I love the show and the people in it. With saying that, I feel like I am not being nice or grateful, but when you love something you want it to be…you want the best version of it. I’m not going to lie, I’ve been frustrated with the direction by character is taking. But we’ll see where it goes. The show is not over.”
Speaking to French publication Le Figaro’s TV magazine, the 36-year-old criticised the nature of Gabriel’s relationship with Emily (played by Lily Collins), remarking: “Everything is based on a lack of communication.”
“It’s a bit archaic,” he continued of the communication between Gabriel and Emily. “These days, the new generation verbalises, they confront, and that no longer works in this case, we do not understand each other.
“People see this mechanism coming from miles away, and I don’t want to be part of a cog that tends not to consider the intelligence of the audience.”
When asked about whether the French President’s statements will impact the series itself, Bravo said that Macron was using “Emily in Paris” to show he is part of the zeitgeist.
“I think we have to place things into context,” Bravo said. “The president also does videos with Instagrammers and YouTubers. We still react to that like it’s the hierarchy we know as the president being this inaccessible figure. But nowadays, if we put it back in the context of our society and social media and how they’re willing to give up that distance to touch the youth through the prism of social media and YouTube and influencers, it’s not so crazy that he did that.”
Bravo continued, “It was a way to show that he stood up for his wife and he is into a pop thing that is kind of cool and that everybody likes, and to show that he is connected to the youth. I am being very analytical about it when the whole team of ‘Emily in Paris’ was like ‘wow!’ and reposting what he did like it was so crazy, but I think we shouldn’t read too much into it other than what it just brought to the table.”
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