Barcelona review: Now it's Emily in Barcelona, a rom-com with a Spanish hunk and a dark twist, writes GEORGINA BROWN By Georgina Brown For The Daily Mail Published: 01:05, 31 October 2024 | Updated: 01:08, 31 October 2024 e-mail View comments You can take Emily out of America, but you can’t take America out of Emily. Which is precisely the point of Emily In Paris, the hit Netflix comedy drama, so ridiculously moreish that its fifth season has just been announced. All thanks to Lily Collins ’s Emily, the unsquashably chirpy charmer who waltzes around Paris in outfits to die for, failing to learn French and so forcing everyone to speak English.
Very quickly, she has tout le monde doing everything her way. And here’s Emily in London. Or, rather, Lily Collins making her stage debut as an American abroad, this time in Barcelona, the title of Bess Wohl’s play.
Lily Collins making her stage debut as an American abroad, this time in Barcelona, the title of Bess Wohl’s play. She bursts into a city apartment wearing a sequined jumpsuit Director Lynette Linton’s production opens with a ghostly vibe, as the shadow of a young woman dances on the wall. Pictured during the performance: Lily Collins (who plays Irene) and Ãlvaro Morte who plays Manuel Lily Collins' character and a gang of girlfriends had been on a hen-do weekend away, soaking up the cheap wine, when she accepted a dare to chat up the older Spaniard at the bar She bursts into a city apartment wearing a sequined j.