Ashley Park is opening up concerning the “stressful” expertise of filming her topless scene in Emily in Paris.
In episode 8 of season 4 of the Netflix collection, Park's character, aspiring singer Mindy — who's on a mission to boost cash for her band to compete in Eurovision — agrees to carry out at Crazy Horse, an iconic Parisian cabaret identified for its nude feminine dancers.
Speaking with PEOPLE at a press occasion for the present in Rome, Italy, on Tuesday, Sept. 10, the 33-year-old actress described performing the scene as “every actor's worst nightmare.”
“We have this recurrent memory of being onstage, not knowing what you're doing, in your underwear,” Park defined. “And that is what I was living out actually, but surrounded by the most beautiful dancers in the world around me.”
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Park stated she struggled to get the job performed. “It was so stressful and so hard to do,” she instructed PEOPLE of the Crazy Horse scene. “If it had not been for the choreographer, Kyle Hanagami, coming in and my team around me, I don't think I would've gotten through it.”
In the episode, Mindy experiences comparable nerves about having to strip down onstage — and he or she even discovers throughout rehearsals that her singing voice is affected when she's topless. In the tip, she comes up with a artistic resolution to get her by the efficiency comfortably. As she dances topless to the Britney Spears hit “Oops!… I Did It Again,” she has BFF Emily (Lily Collins) throw her totally different purses from off-stage to make use of to cowl her physique.
Ultimately, Park instructed PEOPLE, she is “actually really proud of [the scene] now,” noting that it is one appearing expertise she “will never forget doing.”
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The Beef actress additionally spoke about one other memorable singing efficiency she did in Emily in Paris‘ newest season. During a go to to Rome with Emily in the ultimate episode, the 2 associates are strolling by a piazza at night time, when one thing Emily says concerning the magic of Rome offers Mindy a spark of inspiration for a track she's in the center of writing.
She runs as much as a road performer at a piano and asks the person if she will use the instrument. She sits down and sings an emotional ballad — which she and Emily later identify “Beautiful Ruins” — as a crowd gathers round her to pay attention.
“The final song in Rome is special, just because it was original. It's one that Mindy wrote,” Park instructed PEOPLE of the second, including, “[Songwriter] Freddy Wexler did such a beautiful job at infusing what felt like truth in my life into what was happening for the character.”
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At the crimson carpet premiere of half 2 of season 4, Emily in Paris creator Darren Star defined his option to take the present — in which Paris performs a central a part of the narrative — on the street to Rome. He instructed PEOPLE he “wanted to expand the footprint of the show” and “broaden out the universe.”
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“But also, Rome to me is like the other great romantic city in Europe, and it's a bit of a yin and yang to Paris,” Star added. “And also the story took us here. You know, Italy is — just like France — sort of known for fashion, design, style, in a different way.”
Star additionally shared his hope that the present, which premiered in 2020, will get a fifth season. “I hope so,” he stated, noting he already has “some ideas” for what may very well be subsequent for Emily, Mindy and the opposite fundamental characters. “It's really a fun story to keep telling.”
Parts 1 and a pair of of Emily in Paris season 4 at the moment are streaming on Netflix.
