It doesn’t seem to be Lucas Bravo is trying ahead to season 5 of Netflix’s Emily in Paris.
Bravo, 36, has performed Gabriel, the recent, French chef neighbor and love curiosity to Lily Collins’ Emily, since season 1. He reprised the function for season 4, which premiered on Netflix in August 2024, however has but to verify his return for the present’s fifth season.
Netflix renewed the collection for season 5 in September. Since then, Bravo has spoken about the way forward for the collection in a number of interviews. Talking with the French outlet La Figaro in October 2024, Bravo expressed his hesitation about taking part in Gabriel, citing a scarcity of “freedom” within the function and additional casting doubts on his future on the present.
Bravo has branched out to roles past the Netflix collection, and is at the moment starring in Libre, a French heist romance movie coming to Amazon Prime video in November. Regardless of his hesitation, he informed The Telegraph on October 26 that he has no plans to go away Emily in Paris for season 5.
The trailer for the second a part of Emily in Paris‘ fourth season has Us questioning whether or not Emily and Gabriel could possibly be over simply as they lastly began. Netflix launched a sneak peek clip on Monday, August 26, which confirmed Emily (Lily Collins) and Gabriel (Lucas Bravo) navigating their new relationship, which isn’t off to a […]
“[Emily in Paris creator Darren Star] is the primary one that took an opportunity on me, and I’ll at all times be right here for him,” Bravo informed the outlet. “I need to inform significant tales. About what we’re speaking about, not what we appear to be.”
Maintain scrolling to see what Bravo has mentioned about Emily in Paris season 5:
A Lack of Freedom
Bravo described his character’s on-again, off-again romance with Collins’ Emily as “archaic” in an October 2024 interview with Le Figaro in October, including that he wished Gabriel to have extra “panache.”
“Life is brief. It takes 5 months to shoot this collection,” he mentioned. “Do I need to sacrifice them by telling one thing that doesn’t stimulate me?” Bravo added, “I don’t need to be part of a cog that doesn’t are likely to take the intelligence of viewers into consideration.”
He defined that whereas he considers Emily in Paris to be “good leisure” and “an escape” for audiences,” he’s not a fan of the present’s “Nineties concept that lovers pull aside, kiss [and] pull aside once more.”
“Every thing is predicated on a scarcity of communication. It’s a bit archaic,” he famous, including, “I don’t actually have any freedom. And as persons are beginning to give it to me elsewhere, I get a style for it.”
Disappointing Storylines
Bravo expressed his disappointment within the script for Emily in Paris season 5 in a September 2024 interview with SheKnows.
“I don’t actually learn what’s on-line, however studying the script this final season, it was like, ‘I don’t actually like what it’s turning into and the place this storyline goes,’” Bravo defined. “You recognize, on the finish of the day, I’m simply an actor, and I’m right here to say my traces, however, yeah, it’s type of bizarre.”
That is completely different from earlier feedback he made to Vogue earlier this 12 months, the place Bravo gushed about working with Collins on season 4, saying, “I’ve by no means been so near Lily earlier than by way of what we dropped at Gabriel and Emily.”
“This season is all about maturity,” he informed the outlet in Could. “It’s been 5 years since we shot season 1 — since then, a few of us within the forged have gotten married, a few of us have youngsters, or new relationships, or new residences.”
He continued, “We actually wished to take it to the following degree, not by way of ardour, however by way of maturity and the connection between them. There’s plenty of issues that weren’t addressed for 3 seasons which we’re confronting now.”
Rising Out Gabriel’s Hair
Bravo debuted Gabriel’s lengthy hair in season 4 of the Netflix collection and desires to maintain the pattern going for season 5.
“I’ve been attempting to have longer hair on the present since season 1,” the Emily in Paris star informed THR in September. “And since solely sooner or later passes [between seasons 3 and 4], if I have to have lengthy hair on a season then I have to undergo the transition section the place you will have s— hair and it doesn’t appear to be something.”
He added, “So [I decided] to sacrifice season 4 with a purpose to have lengthy hair in season 5. I simply wished one thing completely different. I’m at all times clean-shaven and 5 months of [constantly] shaving isn’t very good on your pores and skin or your soul.”
Threesome Finale
Bravo shared one in every of his steamier concepts on tips on how to wrap up the present’s divisive love triangle between Emily, Gabriel and Camille (Camille Razat). “From what I gathered, it ought to find yourself in a threesome,” Bravo informed Additional in August. “Everyone is comfortable and the world is reunited.”
Nonetheless, the actor shortly clarified that he meant “throuple” as an alternative of “threesome,” saying, “A throuple. Sorry! Poor alternative of phrases. Or possibly not.”
