Emily in Paris’ Lucas Bravo Says He Wasn’t Originally Cast as Gabriel

“He told me, ‘Your phone was vibrating left and right when I got service, so you should check it out,’” Bravo recalled. “I was like, ‘No, no, no. I’m here to forget this Emily Paris thing.’”

The next morning, though, Lucas checked his “40 messages and 30 missed calls,” and found pleasant surprise, noting, “It was the casting director telling me, ‘Where are you?’”

And so Bravo returned to Paris, and was swiftly called in to read again for Gabriel in front of Paramount producers, writers, the show’s creator Darren Star and Collins.

“It went super well,” he gushed. “Lily is very generous. When you dive into her eyes, it’s really easy to be connected to her.”