The actress who plays the character of Emily Cooper in Darren Star’s hit series gave her impressions of the French first lady, her new on-screen partner.
Brigitte Macron in the flesh, opposite Lily Collins in Emily in Paris it sounds like a Kamoulox and yet it’s true. We knew that the first lady was to appear in the second part of season 4, broadcast on Netflix this Thursday, September 12, but we now know more about the intervention of the wife of the President of the French Republic and about the behind the scenes of what brought her in front of the cameras of Darren Star, the creator of the series.
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“She had a great sense of humor.”
Invited to the set of “Quotidien” on TMC, on September 11, Lily Collins, the main actress who plays Emily Cooper, recounted her first meeting with Brigitte Macron, in December 2022. “I still need to pinch myself to be sure that I didn’t dream it,” she confided to Yann Barthès. Brigitte Macron invited us Darren (Star, editor’s note) and me, a few years ago. She wanted to talk about the series to tell us how much she loves the series, how grateful she is for what it has brought to Paris. She told me that she had loved appearing in season 1, she had a great sense of humor on this issue. And we discussed a possible appearance on this new season. “Recall that, in the first season of the series broadcast in 2020, the First Lady appears but is only visible from behind. In addition, her character had been played by another actress.
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“We had to have some lines to give him.”
This time, the first lady French actress wanted to be in it for real. “She had so much fun being in season 1, actually, I think she really wanted to be seen on screen so we had to have lines for her,” Lily Collins confided. So does Brigitte Macron have a future in film? Her on-screen partner isn’t saying. On the other hand, the American actress seems to have fond memories of the First Lady on set. “She came on set, she was funny, she was great, she was very warm and she improvised, we had a great time.”
