Lucas Bravo wasn’t initially solid as considered one of Emily Cooper’s love pursuits in Emily in Paris.
The actor, who performs Gabriel — one-third of the titular character’s never-ending love triangle within the Netflix collection — solely explains throughout a PEOPLE in 10 interview that he wasn’t initially solid because the French chef.
Bravo, 36, reveals to PEOPLE that after he was initially handed on, he headed to the mountains on the French island of Corsica. However whereas on his getaway, he discovered of the manufacturing’s change of coronary heart.
Bravo went by means of 5 auditions over a number of months however did not land the position. He notes that Paramount (the father or mother firm of collection studio MTV Leisure Studios) didn’t “need to take an opportunity on” him as a result of he didn’t have “sufficient background.” This prompted his temporary escape to the Mediterranean island. “I needed to be in a spot the place there is not any service, and I may simply discuss to birds, so to talk,” he mentioned.
However his journey was lower brief and concluded by one thing “very bizarre.”
“A hiker got here by and he was like, ‘Can I borrow your cellphone? I actually need to name my daughter,’ ” he says earlier than clarifying that there’s solely cell service a couple of 40-minute stroll away and on prime of a giant rock. “I gave him my cellphone, he left, by no means got here again,” he continues.
“He advised me, ‘Your cellphone was vibrating left and proper once I acquired service, so it’s best to test it out.’ And I used to be like, ‘No, no, no. I am right here to overlook this Emily Paris factor,’ ” he provides.
“And within the morning, I wakened like, ‘I ought to check out it,’ ” he recollects, earlier than revealing he found he had 40 messages and 30 missed calls. “It was the casting director telling me, ‘The place are you?’ ”
He promptly returned to Paris however wasn’t positive what was occurring as a result of “the official Gabriel had signed his contract, did a desk learn, [and] was about to start out.” He then discovered that he can be studying for Emily’s different love pursuits.
Nonetheless, he nonetheless needed to learn Gabriel’s traces throughout auditions for different roles, which he remarks was “a bit harsh” as a result of it was “nonetheless an open wound.” He obliged and proceeded with the chemistry learn in a room with two producers from Paramount, two writers, creator Darren Star, the director, and Lily Collins.
He arrived within the room alone, and “it was like a home circle desk,” Bravo says. “It felt like an… interrogation.”
As soon as he and Collins, 35, had been studying collectively, he tells PEOPLE that “it went tremendous effectively.” He explains, “Lily could be very beneficiant. Whenever you dive into her eyes, it is very easy to be related to her.”
The group requested about his whereabouts after they tried to contact him.
“I used to be like, ‘I used to be within the mountain with this shepherd making goat cheese,’ and I used to be so uncomfortable I talked about goat cheese for 10 minutes,” Bravo says. “Once I left the room, and I closed the door, I used to be like, ‘I can not consider I simply talked about goat cheese. You are by no means going to get that half.’ ”
Regardless of his considerations, he was referred to as the subsequent day and instantly requested: “Are you sitting?” earlier than being advised, “Okay, you’re beginning in two days.”
He reveals that Starr “fought” for him, as a result of he “thought [Bravo] was the half from the start,” noting that the Emily in Paris creator “went towards the studio.”
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Emily in Paris season 4 is now streaming on Netflix, together with seasons 1, 2 and three.