Presidential cameo in “Emily in Paris“: the wife of the head of state, Brigitte Macron, makes a brief appearance in an episode of the hit series that aired on Thursday, September 12, on Netflix.
The wife of the French president plays her own role: Brigitte Macron makes a brief appearance in an episode of the hit series “Emily in Paris“, aired on Netflix since Thursday, reveals the magazine It Tuesday.
“The First Lady of France” presents herself “in her own clothes, without being given special clothing instructions”, the publication also states, which Netflix confirmed to AFP.
On Thursday, the second part of the fourth season will be uploaded to the streaming platform. “The idea for the cameo (flash passage, editor's note) came to us when Darren Star (creator of the program, editor's note) and I met at the Elysée in December 2022,” confesses Lily Collins, the star of the film “Emily in Paris“, In It.
“An honor and a true happiness”
“She's a huge fan of the show and took a lot of humor to evoke her character from season 1. This scene from season 4 is a wink and it was a pleasure to shoot with her. both an honor and a true happiness. “
As for the interpretation of Brigitte Macron, Darren Star correctly states in It : “He does it with talent!”
Since its launch in 2020, the series has been wowing audiences and making headlines. There are those who love him, those who hate him and those who love to hate him. “Emily in Paris” was particularly criticized in its early days in France for perpetuating a fantasy of the City of Lights having a hard life, from the beret to the French “bon vivant”, or for presenting a sanitized, sometimes very “instagrammable” capital “. .