Emily in Paris star Lucas Bravo hints he’s done with the show: ‘Does not stimulate me’

“Does not stimulate me”: A new interview with Netflix star Lucas Bravo has revealed he’s apparently not a huge fan of his own series.

Lucas Bravo, 36, who stars on the Netflix hit Emily in Paris is over it.

According to The Times, in a recent interview with the French newspaper Le Figaro, Bravo said he’s feeling finished with the show because “Life is short. It takes five months to shoot this series. Do I want to sacrifice them by telling something that does not stimulate me?”

He added, “I do not want to be a part of a cog that does not tend to take the intelligence of viewers into consideration.”

Emily in Paris has been renewed for season five, which is expected to air mid to late 2025, reports the New York Post.

The show premiered in 2020 and was reportedly seen by 58 million households that year. It follows Emily Cooper (Lily Collins), an American who moves to Paris, where she juggles her career and love life.

Lily Collins stars as Emily alongside Bravo as Gabriel. Picture: Netflix

He hinted that he’s ready to leave the show. Picture: Netflix

Bravo isn’t the first person to sneer at the intellect — or lack thereof — of Emily in Paris.

In 2021, Brooklyn sports writer Greg Wyshynski told The Post, “Remember that scene in Goodfellas where they slice the garlic with the razor so it just melts away in the pasta sauce? That’s how thin the characters, plots and stakes are for this television program.”

He continued, “No one learns. No one grows. Emily is less protagonist than a passenger in the back of a Parisian taxi … But it’s a good hate watch because it’s not aggressively bad or infuriating. It’s just pretty and it’s there.”

Jenny Marston, a London blogger, who watches the show, also told The Post, “It’s definitely quite problematic in parts, hugely stereotyped and highly unrealistic. Particularly in the way that Emily’s internet fame took off almost literally overnight! All of these things are enough to make you inwardly cringe but because it was such a quirky, fun and lighthearted watch, that’s what kept people tuning in.”

The series has been renewed for another season. Picture: Netflix

Bravo plays Gabriel, the chef who is Emily’s sometimes-lover.

The actor said that Gabriel and Emily’s relationship was rooted in a “1990s idea that lovers pull apart, kiss [and] pull apart again.”

He added, “Everything is based on a lack of communication. It’s a bit archaic. Today, the new generation expresses [its emotions] and confronts [them]. I would like [Gabriel] to rediscover a bit of panache.”

Bravo is also starring in Libre, a French movie about a robber.

“I don’t really have any freedom [in Emily in Paris] and as people are starting to give it to me elsewhere, I am getting a taste for it,” he said.

The Post reached out to Netflix for comment.

This article originally appeared in the New York Post and was reproduced with permission.