“Stop saying I’m the perfect guy!” »

His parents, footballer Daniel Bravo and singer Eva Bravo

Discreet but not wild for a penny, Lucas Bravo is a funny act. When Paris Match asked him to pose with his parents, footballer Daniel Bravo and singer Eva Bravo, he immediately accepted. And for good reason: he has eternal gratitude to this couple united for forty years who instilled in him, as well as his sister and his two brothers, values ​​and rigor.

As incredible as it may seem, the Bravos are a family like you only see in Hollywood movies! The eldest of the siblings is a lawyer, the youngest is a sports coach and her twin brother is a programmer at Ubisoft. As for Lucas… His star shines brighter than ever. If his parents are as proud of his career as of his righteousness, his mother is still worried: “In France, it's okay, but abroad, it's madness! I already didn't really like it when Daniel was monopolized by his fans. Now it's my son who is being attacked in the United States, in Hong Kong, in India… It's complicated! » “This notoriety can make his life difficult,” adds his father. I know my son, he is deeply kind and needs to live quietly, in complete freedom, without fear of being spied on or constantly approached. »

I discovered that I have immediate karma: as soon as I try to be smart, I pay for it within five minutes.

Lucas Bravo

With such a pedigree, the actor's life seems too perfect to recount. Because the happiness of the ideal guy is all well and good, but the lack of rough edges can also make you sink into abysmal boredom! “Ooh there! tempers the person concerned. Stop saying I'm the ideal guy! In reality, I'm full of anxiety and I ask myself a few too many questions. I would like to go through life with more lightness. » Everything is not so rosy then, but there is nothing very dark either. “I am convinced that it is anxiety that pushes us to be what we are. What I mean by that is that, from the moment we stop questioning ourselves and settle into a certain comfort, we become a little bit stupid. »

The rest after this ad

Listening to him, we quickly understand that Lucas Bravo, with a good head inside and out, feeds imposter syndrome, torn between an ego flattered by sudden notoriety and doubt about his legitimacy. This permanent quartering is to his credit, demonstrating a humility acquired a long time ago, through humiliation.

“One morning, I missed a turn on my skateboard when arriving in front of the school. I found myself on my butt and the board smashed the legs of the girl I was secretly in love with. Everyone saw me spread out like a pancake and what could have been a pretext for a meeting became a reason for a pre-breakup. That's when I discovered that I have immediate karma: as soon as I try to be smart, I pay for it within five minutes. »

My mother taught me to cook. She is an extraordinary cook

Lucas Bravo

Showing off, very little for him then. He even refuses to consider becoming an actor – so many are called up, so few are chosen – because he doesn't see why he would stand out from the crowd. Admiring his older brother, he opted for law school. “Naively,” he remembers, “I imagined in the pleadings the closest way of playing comedy. » Chase away the natural… A friend suggested that he spend a few months at his father's house in Los Angeles. There, he will be able to take drama lessons. The owner of the house is Pitof, director of “Catwoman” who went to China for a new film. And when the cat is not there, the field mice surf! It's simple: Lucas Bravo will stay there for five years, having fun on the waves or on Hollywood Boulevard between two comedy lessons.

Back in France, perfectly bilingual, he went to castings and won his first salary in the soap opera “Sous le soleil de Saint-Tropez”. You have to eat well. And in fact, while waiting to make a living from his job, he takes care of his daily life by working at Carreau, a Parisian bistro behind Place de la République. First as a bartender, then as a sous chef. “My mother taught me to cook,” he confides. She is an extraordinary cook. It's his love language. » His specialty: curry and prawn risotto. And the omelette of course, as Gabriel prepares it for Emily, the fans know it.

Just before the engine is called for, George comes up to me and whispers in my ear: “I have blood in my stool and it stings when I pee. Should I consult?”

Lucas Bravo

Obviously, his cooking skills played a role in landing the role that would change his life. He also insists on cutting the vegetables himself on screen. But it’s not just that: “When I was told that Gabriel was a “boy next door”, I decided to make him very vulnerable and connected to his femininity. And that’s a bit of me. » In the deconstructed genre, Lucas Bravo poses here. He unashamedly admits to having learned a lot by discovering the series “Sex and the City”: “I was 16 and at that age, you don't know more about yourself than you do about the opposite sex – and even less about how to satisfy him. “Sex and the City”, by talking about the clumsiness or stupidity of men, provides a lot of clues on the directions to take. » And guess what? The author of this legendary series from the 1990s, Darren Star, is the same as that of “Emily in Paris”! There is no coincidence.

The immediate triumph of “Emily in Paris” catapulted the actor to the top of the list of Anglo-Saxon casting directors in search of a Frenchie model. This is how he finds himself in the British “A Dress for Mrs. Harris” (alongside Isabelle Huppert) and the American romantic comedy “Ticket to Paradise” with Julia Roberts and the one he admits was “the most beautiful meeting of [sa] ­carrière », George ­Clooney.

When you plug him into the subject, Lucas Bravo is inexhaustible. Touching, too. Like a kid still amazed at having spent time with two of the biggest international stars, he recounts how he met George on the plane that took them to the set in Australia, how George introduced him to his wife, Amal , and his children and spent his time relaxing him, like during this first scene where Lucas could not be more stressed because he has to kiss Julia Roberts.

Visibility and experience should not be confused. I am still in the embryonic stage of my career

Lucas Bravo

“Just before the engine is called for, George comes up to me and whispers in my ear: 'I have blood in my stools and it stings when I pee. Should I consult?” and he leaves. And there we shout: “Action!” I gape, not sure if I heard correctly. Julia, who knows George well, bursts out laughing. And I understand that it's going to be like that throughout the filming and that he's going to do everything to put me at ease by joking. »

That's the charm of Lucas, not realizing that he himself is a star. “You have to be careful with that word,” he retorts. Visibility and experience should not be confused. I am still in the embryonic stage of my career. » One thing is certain, the boy does not take himself for another, however aware of a notoriety which he uses wisely. Thus he puts his image and his energy at the service of ecology, fighting ardently alongside the activist Camille Étienne against the plundering of the seabed carried out by companies in search of rare minerals. Not content with having spoken at the UN, he traveled to Norway to sharply challenge a minister: “We did not win, but we slowed down the process. People sign things without knowing the ins and outs. »

We know you can be charming, now show us the rest: the danger, your injuries, your tics…

Mélanie Laurent to Lucas Bravo

We will have understood: Lucas Bravo is the ideal son-in-law. All that remains is to find him a wife. There's a lot of jostling at the gate, but he remains single. And closes like an oyster as soon as we want to know more about his previous companions. His 2.2 million subscribers can look through his Instagram account, but they won't find an ounce of privacy there. “Cultivating mystery is sexier and it's much easier to become a character on screen when the viewer doesn't know anything about your life,” he explains.

In fact, for “Libre”, Mélanie Laurent did not go out of her way to direct it: “We know that you can be charming, now show us the rest: the danger, your injuries, your tics… Do Trust me, I will film what is necessary. » And it's true that Lucas, in the role of the gentleman robber, appears like we've never seen him before. In any case, he will have to get used to forgetting Gabriel: in a few weeks, the actor will be appearing in “Women on the Balcony”, by Noémie Merlant, where he plays “a real villain”, he assures. , and he is currently filming the series “Merteuil”, a prequel to “Dangerous Liaisons”, in which he plays “a manipulative aristocrat who organizes orgies”. Or how to add chili pepper to a pinch of salt.