00:00Hi AD, Lily Collins here, and welcome to the set of Emily in Paris.
00:15So here we find ourselves in Agence Groteau, formerly known as Savoir, which is a very
00:23important and special set for me because it's where Emily really found her footing and groundedness
00:29in Paris.
00:30I mean, let's not lie, a lot of adventure happens in these rooms.
00:36I'm going out to lunch, a long lunch with wine.
00:39It's 11am.
00:40Well, c'est la vie!
00:43I was so amazed at how big this set was the first time I ever saw it.
00:47I didn't realize that each of us would get our own office and that it would be so spread
00:52out and it would look so livable.
00:54We joked that we would put mattresses in here and actually sleep here because the crown
00:58molding, the colors, it's so calm.
01:00The floor, everything about it felt as though they'd just taken a Parisian apartment and
01:05put it into an office workspace.
01:08So my mind was blown.
01:09They're chandeliers.
01:10I mean, they really went above and beyond on this set.
01:14In terms of the agency, you know, I really talked a lot about finding this Hausmanian
01:18building.
01:19You know, Hausman did all this fantastic architecture all through Paris and I love his buildings.
01:24When we found the exterior of the agency, which is Place Valois in Paris, my aim was
01:29to mix and match the exterior with the interior.
01:32So we survey all the windows and we adjust the whole set inside according to the space
01:38and the backing.
01:40What you see here is the real backing, Place Valois, inside a real place, never existed.
01:46Here we like to call it the bullpen.
01:49Luke sits over there, Julian sits over there, and if we make our way in this direction,
01:55we have my office.
01:58It looks pretty much the same from season one.
02:00There's usually a few little knick-knacks that change on the desk because obviously
02:04one would acquire more things.
02:07But for Emily Cooper, I like to think it's pretty darn clean most of the time.
02:11And what I find to be really cool, it's all in the details.
02:14We have Agence Grotteaux cards, we have papers with our names on it, we have envelopes.
02:21They literally make a deck for each brand that we're pitching, if they're real or fabricated,
02:27just in case one of us chooses to open it in a scene and use it as a prop.
02:32Like I said, attention to detail is so impressive on this.
02:36Season four, Alfie, for the first time he comes to the agency, which to me is one of
02:40my favorite sets on the show.
02:42I come into the scene at the agency to take on a new deal, and I'm not too impressed by
02:47the ideas that Emily's brought to the table.
02:50But obviously, she comes through and delivers.
02:54We have the conference room, which is sometimes the bane of our existence because we usually
02:58have so many cast members and there's so many angles that we're shooting, we're usually
03:02in there for a couple of hours.
03:05And it's where I had my first pitch meeting, where I was pitching myself as Emily Cooper
03:09coming to Savoir, which was a very monumental scene for me.
03:12I'm Emily Cooper, and I'm so excited to be here in Paris.
03:16These are technically awards that our company has won for best marketing, which I just realized
03:21are fabricated for our show.
03:23Apparently, Agence Groteau is doing a good job.
03:26And if you keep following me this way, we have a fully functioning kitchen over here,
03:32and the door to my boss's office, Sylvie.
03:36Now, she'd probably kill me for taking you in here, but I'm going to do it anyway, so
03:39come on in.
03:40Sylvie, just curious...
03:41It's customary to knock, wait for a reply, then enter.
03:47Busy.
03:51This office is where I have done many pitches to Sylvie.
03:54It's where she's yelled at me, told me I'm not doing a good job, told me I'm doing a
03:58better job, where I fought with my co-workers, but this is where she sits, and usually it's
04:03not my view, so I feel like today I'm, I don't know, I have the upper hand a little
04:07bit.
04:08But this office is also very calming to me.
04:10I love the colors, I love the aesthetic.
04:12I think it's really interesting what Anne has done with this office, when it went from
04:15Savoir to Agence Groteau, and how she changed it.
04:18I wanted different rooms to be really separate, to give a depth of field, and for Emily, she's
04:25like very girly, so the color is slightly pink, but you don't really see it.
04:30And from that, I went to Sylvie, which is a bit colder, because she's colder.
04:35The conference room was a challenge, the blue, it gives a very big contrast with the other
04:40open space.
04:41That's something I really like to do, is working on colors.
04:44Bon appétit, ladies.
04:45Bon appétit.
04:46I'd bon appétit him.
04:47That set was, at the beginning of the first season, a real set.
05:03We used a restaurant on the Place de l'Estrapade, and we used the inside as well.
05:08And then the next year, we decided to make it bigger inside.
05:12Anne Siebel made sure that we could have a fully functional kitchen, so we could have
05:16a Michelin star chef that actually created an entire menu just for the restaurant.
05:21The plates actually exist, but only in the story.
05:25So whenever we're done shooting, I just eat the plates.
05:30So we had red color matching the outside.
05:33And then when ex-grandmother Gigi came in the script, we decided to change a bit the
05:37look of it.
05:38So we changed the table clothes, we moved the chairs, we made the round table instead
05:42of just a banquette.
05:44And the colors changed slightly.
05:46Diane wanted something a bit more subtle, more earthy, more Normandy.
05:50So that's how it evolved.
05:52This place got pretty posh.
05:55And maybe now it will evolve again.
05:57We don't know what happened to Gabriel.
06:00We're about to start shooting again.
06:02And whenever I'm starting a scene inside the restaurant and I'm storming out the restaurant,
06:07we cut.
06:08And two weeks later, I shoot it in the actual Place de l'Estrapade.
06:11It's a bit weird in terms of continuity, but yeah, it's the magic, I guess.
06:22And finally, we are in my fabulous apartment, which appears a little larger on camera.
06:31It's a confined space.
06:32Emily's apartment, it was inspired by the Champs-Elysees, the mage rooms that were on
06:36the very top floors of Parisian buildings that still exist.
06:40They have great views.
06:42They have pitched ceilings.
06:43They're super romantic.
06:44Oh my God, I feel like Nicole Kidman in Moulin Rouge.
06:48The stairs from the first season to the second season, we had to build it because the people
06:54who rent the stairs in the real location decided to paint it and renovate it.
06:59So we had no more continuity with our show.
07:01So we decided to build it.
07:03So you have the stairs that we built on stage from scotch to be able to have it on the second
07:08season the same.
07:10As an example of Easter eggs, in Gabrielle's apartment, we decided to make like an homage
07:16to Darren Star, the showrunner.
07:18And there's a poster where Darren is a jazz musician.
07:22It's in the bedroom of Gabrielle.
07:24And I don't think anyone noticed that this name is big on the wall.
07:28After we'd been filming there a while, I sort of looked at it, I was like, wait a second,
07:31is that, there's my name on that, on that picture.
07:34Little things have changed here and there because they would, seeing as though Mindy
07:41and Emily have acquired more memories and adventures.
07:45And this is actually really fun.
07:46I noticed this when we came this year, that they had put our Polaroids up on this pole.
07:51We were just becoming close friends and it was so fun to just explore Paris together
07:56in a way that neither of us ever had.
07:58So I love these little memories.
07:59There's a few other ones scattered around, but these are perfect placement.
08:04Also behind me, the fashion wardrobe, which, you know, it's a little small.
08:09I like to think that downstairs, maybe we have like a storage facility or maybe some
08:13of the floorboards open up and there's like all of our stuff jammed in there.
08:17There's some of my running looks.
08:19There's outfits like this was at Versailles.
08:23This was in Provence.
08:24And so it's nice to see that we get to incorporate our actual outfits.
08:28Same with the shoes, of course.
08:30It's nice to have little props from each season so that it really feels like a home.
08:35Tiny bed.
08:36It is a tiny bed.
08:37It only took us until this season to realize that the couch actually pulls out into a bed
08:44because we've never really shot there as a bed before.
08:46We always just assumed that we both shared the bed.
08:49And I walked into set one day and Ashley and I were like, why is there a bed here?
08:54And they said, well, obviously one of you sleeps on the couch and our minds were pretty
08:57blown.
08:59Em?
09:00Hi!
09:01Hey!
09:02Hi, what's up?
09:03I think the experience shooting in Amy's apartment is always intimate.
09:06Even if the scene's not meant to be intimate, it's intimate.
09:08We've got all the crews in there and everyone's kind of running around.
09:12Until they say action, you're always going to be in someone's way.
09:15It's just kind of like make yourself as small as possible and then when it's time to go
09:18get in there, get the job done and try and get out unscathed.
09:22Honestly, I haven't really used this kitchen that much.
09:25I think Ashley's probably used it more than I have, but I have used it enough to tell
09:29you that it's a working kitchen.
09:30The faucet works, same as the bathroom.
09:33At the beginning of season three, when I was in the bathroom, freaking out to myself in
09:37the mirror and I cut my bangs, I feel like that was a real moment for Emily, a really
09:42nice way of making the bathroom memorable.
09:44And I'll never forget shooting that.
09:46We only had one bang piece.
09:48We had to cut it right the first time, but it was fun.
09:50Emily, no!
09:52All the locations are in Paris.
09:54Everything is here.
09:55I've always been amazed at the number of real locations we've been able to film at.
09:59We filmed this fashion show in Versailles, the Hall of Mirrors.
10:02We filmed at the top of the Eiffel Tower.
10:04We filmed at the Musée d'Art Decoratif.
10:07We filmed in the Musée d'Orsay.
10:09I think that's one thing Emily and Paris does really well.
10:11We have the key to the city and they make the most out of it and building these sets
10:15as well, it's expected.
10:17Some really fun adventures that we've had this season with different outdoor venues.
10:22And a fall-winter season means new wardrobe, new looks, new colors, lots of new hair and
10:27makeup.
10:28I think we hit our record for looks this season, so I'm very excited.
10:31To me, the show is about transporting the audience somewhere and I think this season
10:35we do this in a bigger way than we ever have before.
10:38It has been so nice having Emily and Paris on the set.
10:41It's been so much fun.
10:43It has been so nice having you guys visit our sets, but sadly I have to go back to work
10:47now.
10:48Hope to see you again soon.
10:49Merci!
