‘Emily in Paris’ Star Lucas Bravo on That Season 4 Twist and Where Gabriel Stands With Emily After ‘Part 1’

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Max Gao SPOILER ALERT: This post contains spoilers for Season 4, Part 1, of “Emily in Paris,” now streaming on Netflix.

For Lucas Bravo, who plays dreamy chef turned restaurateur Gabriel in Darren Star’s “Emily in Paris,” the fourth season of Netflix’s breezy romantic dramedy represented a return to the cheeky, playful Gabriel of old. “When you’re in character, and you’ve been sad and melancholic and chasing after something that’s drifting away from you, it feels good to reconnect to the flirtatious playfulness — and to finally play a relationship between two people that actually want to be in one,” Bravo tells Variety.

The relationship in question is between Gabriel and Lily Collins’ Emily Cooper, the perky American marketing executive who has gradually adapted to life in Paris.

After four seasons of will-they-or-won’t-they, Emily finally decides that she wants to pursue a relationship with Gabriel, the charming neighbor who was among her first friends in the City of Love — despite the fact that Gabriel’s ex, Camille (Camille Razat), is pregnant with Gabriel’s first child. (Or so they think.) “I felt excited to see where this relationship could actually go after just having a glimpse, and not really knowing if we would ever get back together,” Bravo says, referring to Emily and Gabriel’s steamy hookup at the end of Season 1. “I could not wait to shoot those scenes, and I feel like it gave us the opportunity to bring the connection and the chemistry to another level.” Below, Bravo discusses the experience of shooting the early stages of Emily and Gabriel’s long-awaited love story — and the inevitable fallout from Camille’s (Camille Razat) big secret in the midseason finale. (Part 2 of Season 4 drops on Sept.