Lily Collins is pushing for Emily in Paris to come to London for season five: 'Emily wants to go to Big Ben!'

Lily Collins, who made her West End debut past nighttime successful a show described arsenic “sensational”, has revealed she wants Netflix’s Emily successful Paris – the amusement that made her celebrated – to travel to London for its 5th season.

In the show, which archetypal aired successful 2020, she plays Emily Cooper, an American selling enforcement who moves to Paris for work. It was the streamer’s biggest deed of the twelvemonth successful 2022 and continues to beryllium among the astir watched shows connected the platform.

“I anticipation Emily comes to London,” the Emmy-nominated histrion told the Standard past night, pursuing her show successful Bess Wohl’s caller play, Barcelona, attended by luminaries including Gary Oldman, Jason Isaacs and Lily Iglehart. “I’ve been pitching that; I’m like, she wants to spell to Big Ben!”

There has been speculation astir wherever Emily volition extremity up next, aft she moved to Rome for the 2nd fractional of play four. Online commentators person pointed retired that Emily’s French Visa indispensable person passed its expiry date. Collins told america she’d been “following each the theories”.

A time earlier her Emily successful Paris co-star, Lucas Bravo reportedly said helium was unsure astir returning arsenic Emily’s emotion involvement Gabriel, aft seeing a quality helium loves truthful overmuch mistreated by others and “turned into guacamole”. “I virtually person been speechmaking those [articles] myself and I person zero thought what’s happening,” Collins said.

When asked if Emily belongs with Gabriel, Collins – who is besides a shaper connected the amusement – said: “I conscionable privation Emily to beryllium happy.”

Collins herself has taken up residence successful London for Barcelona, which runs until 11 January astatine the Duke of York’s Theatre. Directed by Evening Standard Theatre Award victor Lynette Linton, it besides stars Álvaro Morte, champion known for his pb relation successful the Netflix drama, Money Heist.

Set successful a level successful the Catalan superior implicit the people of a azygous evening, it depicts 2 strangers astir to stock a nighttime of passion: but things rapidly unravel into darker territory. It takes spot during the Obama medication and a week retired from the US elections, Collins said it felt “timely” bringing to beingness a publication that is partially astir the European cognition of American politics.

Her quality successful Barcelona “is fixed an accidental to amended [herself]”, she said, adding: “It’s good to person antithetic opinions to those you were raised with.” Collins endorsed Kamala Harris past week.

Collins said she had a dense manus successful bringing Wohl’s amusement to London. “When I work this play, originally, it was possibly gonna beryllium successful New York,” she said. “And I said to Bess, I truly wanna bash this, but my imagination is the West End. Do you deliberation there’s immoderate mode tin we clasp connected and spot if we get an connection from the West End instead?” When asked if anyplace bushed London for theatre, Collins said: “no”.

“I was calved successful England and I’ve ever felt much European than American,” the histrion said. “Ironically, though, I play precise American characters.” Collins is among the radical named successful the Standard 100, a celebratory database of the men and women shaping London successful 2024. “For maine to beryllium associated with London done this play and travel present and execute is specified an honour,” she said.

Her emotion of the metropolis extends beyond the theatre. “I emotion however originative and vibrant and non-judgemental London is,” she said. “I’ve met truthful galore radical present who let you to beryllium the astir uninhibited mentation of yourself.”

Like Sarah Jessica Parker, who performed earlier this twelvemonth successful Neil Simon’s Plaza Suite astatine the Savoy Theatre, Collins has peculiar praise for the city’s nationalist transport web — successful particular, buses.

“There’s thing amended than sitting astatine the beforehand of a treble decker autobus — I consciousness similar I’m successful Harry Potter,” she said. “My hubby and I volition spell to the apical conscionable to thrust the autobus and consciousness similar we’re successful a movie.” Her favourite neighbourhoods see Portobello, Covent Garden, Queen’s Park and “stunning” Hampstead Heath. Although she loves Paris, “London is starting to consciousness much and much similar home.”

Barcelona is astatine the Duke of York’s Theatre until January 11