Lily Collins dishes on 'emotional' 'Emily in Paris' exit of (spoiler) ~ DEVI MAG

Spoiler alert: As ruining the plot is never in fashion, we suggest you watch Season 5 of "Emily in Paris" (currently streaming) prior to reading.

Has Emily and Gabriel's ship sailed?

Midway, in Season 5 of "Emily in Paris" (now streaming on Netflix) one sizzling chef (Lucas Bravo) revealed to our titular Francophile (Lily Collins) that he'd be leaving his Michelin-star rated restaurant to work on a yacht as a private chef.

Emily, who spends most of the season in a relationship with sexy Italian Marcello (Eugenio Franceschini) – only to break up in the finale − handles Gabriel's exit "with total grace and assuredness," Collins tells USA TODAY. "I loved how both of them, this year, are on their own paths. They're the most honest they are with themselves and each other. Gabriel is going off to live his life and his dream, and Emily is there living her life and her dream, and she is genuinely OK saying goodbye to Marcello and Gabriel and just being with herself… And then they got to say a goodbye at a beautiful train station. I found it very emotional."

Emily and Marcello break up in the finale because he has to run his family business from Italy, and she doesn't want to abandon the life she's built in Paris. At the aforementioned train station, Gabriel admits that he followed Emily to Rome, but let her be after seeing her happy with Marcello.

Emily (Lily Collins) and Gabriel (Lucas Bravo) say goodbye in a train station in Netflix's

"That's all I ever wanted for you," he tells her.

"It's all I ever wanted for you too," she replies. "For both of us."

Before the doors to his train close, Gabriel tells Emily, "You're a good friend."

"It was a very interesting line, I thought," Collins says. "I still question whether Gabriel said it as an easy way out or he really means it. I don't know. I know that they are friends, past the romance. But I wasn't sure either."

Gabriel's dissatisfaction with his time the restaurant mirrors Bravo's restlessness in his own life. While the actor acknowledged the show is "good entertainment" ina viral, controversial interview with Le Figaro's French TV magazine, published Oct. 24, 2024, he worried he'd "pretty much exhausted the possibilities" of his character. "Filming this series lasts five months, after all. Do I want to sacrifice them to telling a story that doesn't inspire me?"

He also aired his frustration with the direction of his character duringan interview with IndieWire published Oct. 29, 2024.

"I really want to see if Gabriel gets back to his fun, cheeky, playful, alive self," Bravo told the outlet. "Because three seasons playing melancholic, sad, depressed, and lost is not fun anymore. It's a comedy, everybody is having fun around me, everybody is jumping around, and I'm just slowly sinking into God knows what."

When asked if Bravo's real life and very public complaints influenced his arc this season, Ashley Park, who plays Emily's best friend Mindy, thinks the question could be better suited for series writers or Bravo himself.

"What I do know is that the writers, I don't know in that particular instance, but there's always qualities of us and what we bring to set and our relationships in real life that inspire the writers for sure," Park says. "I know that for sure this scene with us doing skincare masks together on the couch, I think we had talked about so many times how that's all we do in a hotel room together whenever we need to catch up and (have) heart to hearts. So it's always fun to see those kinds of elements put into the script."

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