Emily in Paris star Lucas Bravo 'doesn't have any freedom' as he lashes out at Netflix show

French actor Lucas Bravo has unleashed on Netflix's Emily in Paris and has heavily hinted he won't return for a fifth season after growing frustrated by the filming process

Emily in Paris star Lucas Bravo has threatened to quit the show - despite it making him a worldwide heartthrob.

The French actor plays chef Gabriel in the smash Netflix show - which started streaming back in 2020. He is the main love interest for Lily Collins's titular Emily Cooper - but the recent fourth season saw her turn her attention to a new Italian love interest.

Now Lucas has hinted he is prepared to quit the series after watching his character fade into the background. The French star - who made his acting debut in 2013 in the drama Sous le soleil de Saint-Tropez, which translates to Under the Saint-Tropez sun - has been frustrated by the way his character has failed to develop.

He also said he thinks that he can no longer relate to the scripts that he is expected to bring to life on screen. He complained: "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."

He continued, in his chat with IndieWire: "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."

Lucas's latest comments follow a biting interview that he gave to the French magazine Le Figaro in which he hinted he was on the cusp of quitting the hit Netflix show. Asked if he will return for season five, he told the publication: "It will depend on the script because I think I've covered everything a bit. I don't really have any freedom and, as I'm starting to be given some elsewhere, I'm getting a taste for it. Life is short. The filming of this series lasts five months. Do I want to sacrifice them to tell something that doesn't stimulate me?"

Asked what he would like to see his character do, he said: "I would like him to find a bit of panache again. In the last season, the writing was in this idea of the 90s where lovers move away, kiss, move away again... Everything is based on the lack of communication. It's a bit archaic. Today, the new generation verbalizes, confronts each other, it doesn't work anymore this side we cross paths and we don't understand each other."

He added: "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 spectators."

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