Lily Collins Knows Emily from Emily in Paris Might “Seem So Annoying”

Last fall, at the height of the coronavirus pandemic, 58 million households logged in to Netflix to watch Emily in Paris—and the City of Light-set romantic comedy prompted strong reactions (and Twitter commentary) from the crowd. Some saw the show’s titular Emily, an ambitious Midwestern twenty-something with a candy-colored wardrobe who moves to Paris for a job at a luxury marketing firm, to be, well, somewhat naive and annoying. Lily Collins, who stars as Emily, understands where the criticism is coming from. “A lot of the qualities that Emily has, if you put them on paper, would seem so annoying,”… Read Full Article