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    'Emily in Paris' Writer Angry at Golden Globe Snub of 'Brilliant' Show 'I May Destroy You'

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    Deborah Copaken, the writer of Lily Collins’ new show, says the excitement of her Golden Globe nomination is ‘tampered’ by her rage over Michaela Coel’s ‘brilliant work of art.’

    Feb 5, 2021
    AceShowbiz – Deborah Copaken, a writer on Netflix’s hit series “Emily in Paris”, has said the success of her show in the Golden Globe nominations was tarnished by the fact that Michaela Coel’s show, “I May Destroy You”, was overlooked.
    “Emily in Paris” gained two nominations at Wednesday’s (4Feb21) Globes after the show was nominated for best TV series, musical or comedy, with its leading lady, Lily Collins, also up for best actress in a television musical or comedy.
    However, Copaken and many of Coel’s fans, vented at the shock omission of her original BBC/HBO limited-series, “I May Destroy You”, despite it winning widespread critical acclaim for its dramatised re-telling of a sexual assault she suffered.
    In an op-ed for The Guardian, Copaken, who had tweeted the omission was “just wrong” said it speaks to something rotten in the industry.

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    “Am I excited that Emily in Paris was nominated? Yes. Of course. I’ve never been remotely close to seeing a Golden Globe statue up close, let alone being nominated for one,” Copaken wrote. “But that excitement is now unfortunately tempered by my rage over Coel’s snub. That I May Destroy You did not get one Golden Globe nod is not only wrong, it’s what is wrong with everything.”
    She added, “We need art that reflects all of our colors, not just some. But we also need to give awards to shows (and music and films and plays and musicals) that deserve them, no matter the color of the skin of their creators.”
    “Is Hamilton great because Lin-Manuel Miranda is Puerto Rican? No. It’s great because it bangs. By that same token, how anyone can watch I May Destroy You and not call it a brilliant work of art or Michaela Coel a genius is beyond my capacity to understand how these decisions are made.”
    Copaken added that “I May Destroy You” is her favourite show ever.
    “It takes the complicated issue of a rape – I’m a sexual assault survivor myself – and infuses it with heart, humor, pathos and a story constructed so well, I had to watch it twice, just to understand how Coel did it.”

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      'Emily in Paris' Gets Renewed for Second Season Despite French Stereotype Backlash

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      News about the picking up of the Netflix series for another season has been unveiled in a fun, mock press release from the titular character’s fictional boss Sylvie Grateau.

      Nov 12, 2020
      AceShowbiz – Hit Netflix show “Emily in Paris” has been picked up for a sequel season, despite critics slamming the series.
      The romantic comedy, which stars Lily Collins as a young American marketing executive working in the city of lights, has received negative attention for promoting U.S. stereotypes about the French.
      Despite the backlash, fans have flocked to watch the show since it debuted in October, and the renewal news was unveiled in a fun, mock press release from Emily’s fictional boss, Sylvie Grateau – played by Philippine Leroy Beaulieu.
      “Despite her overconfident manner and lack of prior experience in luxury goods marketing, she has nonetheless managed to charm some of our hard-to-impress clients during her short time at Savoir,” reads the note. “Call it Bonne chance, or American ingenuity – I’m leaning towards the former – her results are impressive. We love having Emily in Paris! But please don’t let her know that.”

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      Created by “Sex and the City” writer Darren Star, the show also stars Lucas Bravo, Samuel Arnold, Camille Razat and Kate Walsh.
      Meanwhile, Star recently addressed the backlash linked to his new Netflix show, stating, “The first thing she (Emily) is seeing is the cliches, because it’s from her point of view (sic). I wanted to do a show that celebrated that part of Paris… I wanted to showcase Paris in a really wonderful way that would encourage people to fall in love with the city in a way that I have.”
      Star has also revealed he already has ideas about what his new heroine will do next, telling Oprah magazine, “She’ll be more of a resident of the city (in season two). She’ll have her feet on the ground a little more.”
      Collins previously told Vanity Fair she “would love nothing more than to be able to go back to Paris” to shoot a second season of the show.

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      'Emily in Paris' Creator Unapologetic for Criticized Portrayal of French Cliches

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      Insisting that he is ‘not sorry’ for looking at the French capital through a glamorous lens, Darren Star adds that he already has ideas about what Emily will do in a second season.

      Oct 24, 2020
      AceShowbiz – Darren Star, creator of Lily Collins’ Netflix drama “Emily in Paris”, has defended the programme over criticism of its cliched portrayal of the French capital.
      The series stars Collins as a naive marketing executive trying to get to grips with life in Paris after being hired to provide an American perspective at a marketing firm.
      While fans have flocked to watch the series, reviewers have responded negatively to the show’s portrayal of French “cliches” – with U.Z. writer and executive producer Star “not sorry for looking at Paris through a glamorous lens.”
      Speaking to The Hollywood Reporter, Star, who also created “Sex and the City”, said he intended his new show to be “a love letter to Paris” seen through the eyes of Collins’ title character.

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      “The first thing she is seeing is the cliches because it’s from her point of view (sic),” he explained. “I wanted to do a show that celebrated that part of Paris.”
      He previously revealed he had drawn on his own experiences of visiting the city, telling the New York Times, “I wanted to showcase Paris in a really wonderful way that would encourage people to fall in love with the city in a way that I have.”
      Although a second season of the show has yet to be commissioned, Star has revealed he already has ideas about what its heroine will do next.
      “She’ll be more of a resident of the city (in season two),” he told Oprah magazine. “She’ll have her feet on the ground a little more.”
      Collins, 31, previously told Vanity Fair she “would love nothing more than to be able to go back to Paris” to shoot a second season.

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      'Emily in Paris' Star Appears to Agree With People's Criticism on the Series, Teases Season 2

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      In response to the people perceiving the show as ‘cliche,’ cast member Lucas Bravo, who plays Gabriel on the Netflix show, says in a new interview that it isn’t entirely wrong.
      Oct 12, 2020
      AceShowbiz – Netflix’s “Emily in Paris” has caught people’s attention with mixed reviews. Some people love the story of an American girl, who barely speaks French, taking a job in the City of Lights. However, some others, mostly French, think that the story is “cliche” and the infidelity theme on the series also earns the show backlash.
      In response to the people perceiving the show as “cliche,” cast member Lucas Bravo said in a new interview that it wasn’t entirely wrong. “I think they’re right, in a way,” the 32-year-old French actor, who plays Gabriel, shared to Cosmopolitan. “We’re portraying cliches and we’re portraying one single vision of Paris.”
      Calling the city “one of the most diverse cities in the world,” Bravo continued, “We have so many ways of thinking, so many different nationalities, so many different neighborhoods. A lifetime wouldn’t be enough to know everything that’s going on in Paris.” He went on to say, “It’s an entire world in a city. At some point, if you want to tell a story about Paris, you have to choose an angle. You have to choose a vision. French critics, they didn’t understand the fact that it’s just one vision. They’re like, ‘Oh, this is not what Paris is.’ Of course. Paris is many things.”

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      Although Netflix has yet to officially greenlight the series for a second season, Bravo shared how he thought the sophomore season would go when it comes to his character’s love life with Emily (Lily Collins) and his estranged girlfriend Camille (Camille Razat). “We planted a few seeds about different characters,” he said.
      He went on say, “Like Camille, when she kisses Emily on the mouth, and she’s like, ‘I’m not sorry.’ And then when they’re in bed, and I’m liking the picture, it’s all little seeds. Anything could happen between the three of them. I think Darren wants this second season to be really open-minded.”
      “The way we left things, Gabriel is definitely more excited, or more intoxicated by the promise of going further down the road with Emily, that’s for sure,” Bravo added. “Because since she got here, so many amazing things unlocked for him, you know. But Camille is really strong-willed, she’s an amazing woman, and she could very well come back.”

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      Lily Collins Struggles to Adjust Life in Paris While Filming New Series

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      The ‘Mirror Mirror’ actress admits she, just like her onscreen character in Netflix’s new show ‘Emily in Paris’, felt lost when staying in the City of Lights during the filming.
      Oct 4, 2020
      AceShowbiz – Lily Collins didn’t have to dig too deep to play an American struggling with the French language and culture in “Emily in Paris” – she lived the role in the City of Lights.
      The actress plays a naive and romantic marketing executive trying to get to grips with Paris in the new Netflix series and admits life mirrored art while she was living in the city.
      Unlike her clueless character, Lily knew a little French but it was not enough to help her deal with the everyday dramas she faced when she was not filming.
      “I grew up speaking French but then stopped practising, so I wasn’t versed enough when I got there and to play a character that hardly understands the language at all to then, on weekends, try to do it myself like I used to, it was very difficult for me.”

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      “Also, things that happened to Emily happened to me, like I lost hot water for two weeks, my apartment didn’t have heating, my elevator stopped working, there was construction everywhere.”
      “There were these moments where I thought to myself, ‘Are you guys planning this so that I can have empathy for Emily…?’ But it was such a fun experience and I feel so grateful even more to have been there as a local for four months because now all I want to do is travel.”
      Lily admits that watching the series, which debuts on Netflix this weekend (02Oct20), makes her realise the world is now a very different place thanks to the coronavirus pandemic.
      “I go, ‘Oh my God, there’s too many people there (in that scene)’ or ‘Don’t touch… Don’t do the French three-kiss hello’. It seems a world gone by to be able to experience it like that.”

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      Lily Collins' 'Emily in Paris' Gets Picked Up by Netflix

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      Series creator Darren Star expresses excitement by noting that he and MTV Studios couldn’t hope for a more perfect home for the half-hour show which is set to air in the fall.
      Jul 14, 2020
      AceShowbiz – Long in the works romantic comedy series “Emily in Paris” is set to debut on Netflix.
      The show, which stars Lily Collins, was created by “Sex and the City” boss Darren Star and was first announced back in 2018. Initially set to air on the Paramount Network, the programme was ultimately shelved by Paramount chiefs.
      The half-hour series, produced by executives at MTV Studios, wrapped production prior to the coronavirus shutdown and is set to air this autumn.

      “MTV Studios and I couldn’t hope for a more perfect home for ‘Emily In Paris’ than Netflix,” Star said. “With their international reach, we are excited to share Emily with audiences around the world.”
      “Emily in Paris” follows the titular character, a twenty-something marketing executive from Chicago, Illinois who lands her dream job in Paris, France. The small screen venture centres on her personal and professional adventures in the French capital.

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