TV shows like “Emily in Paris” and “Beef” are raising her profile, but she’s still a fan of “the magic of a live audience.”
Ashley Park has heard the criticism of “Emily in Paris.” The costumes can be garish. (Bucket hats? In the office?!) The characters can be cartoonish. The biggest worry for Emily, the protagonist, is often whether to cut trauma bangs or what outré dress to wear next.
“Just relax. We want the show to be fun,” Park, who plays Mindy Chen, Emily’s best friend and an aspiring singer, said in a phone call from her home in Los Angeles. “You can fold your laundry to it. It’s a really easy watch.”
In Season 4 of the Netflix comedy series, whose first five episodes begin streaming on Aug. 15, the action moves temporarily to Italy, on a Roman holiday. Another change: For the first time, viewers of the show will get to see winter in Paris.
“I don’t think anyone enjoyed that — Paris winter is hard — but the fashion is to die for,” said Park, 33, who previously split her time between New York and California.
That move reflects the fact that Park, who earned a Tony nomination as Gretchen Wieners in the Broadway musical “Mean Girls,” has increasingly found herself in demand as a television and film actress.
“When John Hoffman, the showrunner of ‘Only Murders in the Building,’ calls you and says, ‘Hey, I would love for you to play this part; you do a duet with Meryl Streep,’ there’s literally zero percent, if not negative percent, hesitation,” said Park, who appeared in Season 3 of the series.
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