Sacre bleu! Emily has left Paris for sunnier Spanish pastures. In her stage debut, Lily Collins, an actor best known for her titular turn in Netflix’s ongoing frothy hit Emily in Paris, finds herself once again an American abroad – this time in Barcelona.
It is, on the surface at least, a familiar role for Collins who plays Irene: a peroxide blonde real estate agent who is painfully American to those around her. And, most specifically, to Manuel (portrayed by fellow Netflix darling Álvaro Morte of the Spanish-language juggernaut Money Heist). He’s the handsome Spaniard she’s picked up at a bar, and at whose house she finds herself, drunk, lascivious and in the middle of an existential crisis brought on by her imminent wedding day. Manuel, too, is going through it for reasons not immediately clear.
