Emily in Paris

Season three provides more career choices, designer dilemmas and romantic revelations for the fashionable female lead character. Although Lucas Bravo — who ...

“To mispronounce it over and over and over again, it’s like ... So there’s always a part of us in every character.” “It’s a little bit difficult to pretend like you don’t know how to say something,” Collins explains. It was a real rollercoaster to shoot. And it’s a big soup of chaos and drama.” “But it was a real ride.

"Emily in Paris" season three was filmed at various locations in France, including the Eiffel Tower, Musée des Arts Décoratifs, and Hôtel Molitor Paris.

[La Nouvelle Eve](http://www.lanouvelleeveparis.com/le-cabaret/) is one of the oldest revue theaters in Paris. [Molitor](https://www.molitorparis.com/en/hotel/) hotel first opened as a Parisian bathhouse called [Piscine Molitor in 1929](https://www.historichotels.org/hotels-resorts/hotel-molitor-paris-mgallery-by-sofitel/history.php). [Clover Gordes](https://airelles.com/fr/destination/gordes-hotel/restaurants/clover-gordes-jean-francois-piege-cuisine-terroir-terrasse). Bonus: You can take a virtual tour of it all [here](https://artsandculture.google.com/u/1/streetview/ch%C3%A2teau-de-montpoupon/yQHx8DnF3MBXMQ?sv_lng=1.141380813664881&sv_lat=47.252776674565396&sv_h=329.4717788482193&sv_p=21.528632595820227&sv_pid=BHN0RT6vqVc8PNK0k71mkA&sv_z=0.12380566518895697). Overlooking the lavender fields and olive trees of the Luberon valley, the Provence restaurant is part of the [Airelles Gordes](https://airelles.com/fr/destination/gordes-hotel) hotel. While fashion is certainly at the forefront, the [Netflix series](https://www.housebeautiful.com/lifestyle/entertainment/a41968608/wednesday-filming-locations-romania-castle/) has taken viewers to several breathtaking filming locations in France—from the [Palace of Versailles](https://www.netflix.com/tudum/articles/prance-around-paris-like-emily-with-this-season-2-location-guide) to [Le Château de Sonnay](https://www.housebeautiful.com/design-inspiration/a34338253/le-chateau-de-sonnay-french-castle-netflix-emily-in-paris/). [Château de Montpoupon](https://www.montpoupon.com/?lang=en), a castle located in the Touraine region of the Loire Valley. There, visitors can explore [the château's various rooms](https://www.montpoupon.com/the-chateau/?lang=en). “I didn't even think it'd be possible, but I think Paris has been very generous to us and in giving us access to amazing locations all over the city.” [Emily in Paris](https://www.housebeautiful.com/about/a38541960/cost-of-living-emily-in-paris-netflix-lily-collins/) stems from its over-the-top, often très cliché extravagance. The production design for the Pierre Cadault Retrospective was inspired by the 70th anniversary Dior exhibition. (And should you embark on that journey, be sure to study our [Paris travel guide](https://www.housebeautiful.com/lifestyle/a41090204/paris-travel-guide/) for more aesthete-approved recs!)

Sylvie attempts to trick Madeline into vacating the old Savoir offices so she can use them. Emily faces the prospect of going back to Chicago.

Emily finally stands up for herself because the thought of returning to Chicago for a dreaded “360 review,” where she will, I guess, have to pretend Madeline didn’t botch everything, is too much for her poor heart to bear. The speed with which Madeline came, saw, conquered, and destroyed this branch of the company is truly something to behold and I’m sure will really pave the way for other working mothers at the Gilbert Group. First of all, why the hell would she be performing this song, in English, at this jazz club that — as we just learned during an extensive tour of her dressing room — has seen many a jazz legend perform there? If anybody’s performance had any texture to it and we could sense that Alfie was doing a little chess-not-checkers thing here — like, he’s not just being a good friend to Camille and Gabriel; he’s actually trying to neutralize the threat he fears Gabriel still poses to his relationship with Emily — I’d be a lot more into this. For reasons unclear (the show will not allow Emily to actually face and live with the consequences of her bad actions for more than ten minutes), Emily and Alfie are in a great place. Emily and Alfie snuggle in an improbably pink hotel bed as she tries to get the man she completely blew off to declare that he stayed in Paris to pursue a relationship with her.

'Emily in Paris' season three focuses on Sylvie's new company and life: actor Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu explains her character's evolution.

Season one, they were like, “Oh, no, no, we’re not like that.” And now they’re super happy about the show. They were like, “Oh my God, this is not real. And the fact that people think that I’m like a Parisian woman now makes me feel even more Parisian. You’re much too old for the part, they’re looking for somebody who’s 35, 40 years old, but you should read the sides of Sylvie if you want to read for it.” And when I read the scenes they sent me, I just went, “Of course. And I think it’s a life lesson. Actually, last year, he said, “Do you know why I hired you?” And he said, “Because I liked your vulnerability.” But she’s a very strong character. I like her vulnerability. L.-B.: Oh, I like her sassiness. P. We’re going to see her life. We’re going to see her vulnerability. Here, she previews the season ahead and explains how French perception of the show is finally improving.

“You come to Paris, you walk into my office and you don't even bother to learn the language,” Sylvie, played by Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu, says to Emily. “You ...

She does something in Season 3 that really could mean the end of her career towards the end of the season, but she does it with such confidence. “She sees how bold and smart she is and she recognizes that as something that she probably was when she was younger, in her own time, with different tools. Familiar with crafting complicated female characters through series like “Beverly Hills, 90210,” “Melrose Place” and “Younger,” Star is quick to say Sylvie is not a villain, but rather a role model: “In terms of how she sees life and her point of view,” he says. She was a girl that was basically living bare feet on the beach and then she has to go to Paris and become Sylvie Grateau. “She’s so multifaceted and she expresses all these different sides of her with a lot of freedom,” Leroy-Beaulieu says. And that not-normal [life] was also a lot of fun because it taught me a lot about a certain freedom.” “It is really fascinating to watch her process in wanting to make, technically, the villain of the show, still empathetic, grounded, relatable, soft at times. Leroy-Beaulieu made her acting debut in Roger Vadim’s film “Surprise Party” in 1983 and a few years later earned a César nomination for most promising actress with her role as a single mother in the comedy “Trois Hommes et un Couffin,” a runaway hit in France that would eventually be remade in America as “Three Men and a Baby.” The majority of her career has been in France, where she has performed in a string of films and TV shows, but she was virtually unknown in the U.S. “I wanted the character to have this sense of mystery about her. She even had a small role earlier this year in Netflix’s Emmy winner “The Crown,” playing Monique Ritz, widow of hotelier Charles Ritz. When the conversation turns to her own culture shock visiting the U.S., she says she found the loneliness of L.A. She was in that position herself when she auditioned for the role, originally written to be between 35 and 40 years old.

An interview with 'Emily in Paris' actor Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu about the show's third and wildest season, discussing her character Sylvie's chicness, ...

I have to be moved in a very deep way — it has to touch my heart and my guts. I love that artist, but I also love that documentary. Artists try to give birth to something that is universal, that can be received by everyone — not everyone in a cheap way, everyone because it touches something really, really deep. I remember somebody leaked the fact that I was going to be in a swimsuit in season two, and rightfully so — at my age, you kind of need to tell the actor. It’s a love and hate relationship, I guess. But she needs that in order to restore her sense of confidence. You don’t need to know.” It’s kind of fun, now that I think about it. He takes you out of that comfort zone and throws you in the pool and you just swim through it. And it was kind of cute, because I was telling him, like, “Darren, I mean, look at me. When you’re thrown in the pool and you have to swim, you just do it. It’s because she saw that Emily was strong that she was also very scared of her. I mean, I wasn’t really interested when I was a kid.

From Emily's red lip ratio to Sylvie's imperceptible faux lashes, the show's head of makeup shares her Parisian beauty secrets.

“Emily knows what she wants, and she has to make choices in her profession and her personal life, so she’s wearing bold lips,” says Payen. “It’s really a balance,” says Payen of mixing up her Parisian instincts and keeping a finger on the pulse of new products, like Face Lace decals and high-wattage eye paints. Take Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu’s breakout character, Sylvie (Emily’s boss-but-not-boss who viewers dream of starring in a spinoff), for example.