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00:00Hi guys, you look lovely. How are you? We're doing great. Good. So I got a screen of the
00:07first episode and I watched it and I loved it. Super excited to see everything in Paris and all
00:12the dynamics between the six of you. I guess Emily, I'll start with you. How did this kind
00:18of opportunity to be on the show come about? And was there any hesitation to join reality
00:23television in the crazy world that comes with it? So, I mean, I've been living here for about
00:29three years now and I've been not documenting my life here, but I'm very open. I think my name is
00:36Emily. So that kind of helped, you know, being noticed, of course, in the comparison there.
00:43I think that I was just open about my life on social media, not anything crazy. And I just
00:49got very lucky and blessed for people to have noticed that. And yeah, it was very scary and
00:55it's something I'm still scared to this day, letting all these cameras into my, my private
01:00Parisian life. But at the same time, it's a blessing because it's a way for people to see
01:05what the real Emily in Paris actually is like and what life could actually be like beyond the
01:11stereotypes of shows like that, or even just ideas that Americans have. So I'm proud of the
01:18life that we're creating, building together as a friend group. And I think that in itself
01:25allows it to be easier to let the cameras into that, you know, just being proud of the
01:30ups and the downs and the roller coasters and whatnot.
01:33Yeah. What did you think about Emily in Paris, the show being such a hit? Were you like, wait,
01:37that should have been me.
01:38I was like, hello. I was the first Emily in Paris. I'm the OG Emily in Paris. Like,
01:42please sit down, Lily Collins. But also like, I love her. She's great.
01:46Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's like a lot of hate.
01:48Absolutely. Anya, what about you? What was this experience like kind of welcoming the cameras
01:52into your life and joining the show?
01:55Yeah, I think I understand that, you know, I have a very unique life and expertise in Paris,
02:03someone who basically teaches the French, even about French culture. And to me, I mean,
02:09you know, my, I'm not as good at maybe the social media and sharing so much. And so many people
02:18would tell me, Anya, share, like, this is amazing. Or look what museum you're in. Like,
02:23you need to put all of these treasures and gems and secrets of Paris and dinners out there. And I am
02:30so passionate, not just about the city of Paris, but about French culture, about how it's absolutely,
02:36we, you know, changed the world and influences everything we experienced today that I thought,
02:41you know, if I have a platform to show that, to show how interconnected so much of culture is to
02:48what the French started, why not?
02:51Absolutely. I think a lot of people are definitely going to kind of draw and relate the show to
02:56Housewives, just being that it's on Bravo and it's about a group of women. Were each of you fans of
03:00Housewives before? And how do you think this show is going to really differentiate itself from the
03:04Housewives world? I mean, in terms of being different, I mean, we don't, like, throw cake at
03:13each other. We eat cake. Yeah. Because we're in Paris and it's delicious. And Marie Antoinette said
03:19we should. Yeah, right. You gotta listen to her. So that to me is, like, we might argue during that
03:25cake. Sorry. But we are, you know, our priorities are elsewhere. I also think that one key thing,
03:36you know, obviously, I'm 22 years old. I moved here three years ago. I didn't, I wasn't in America
03:41for my years of watching Bravo. You know, here we don't really have easily streaming Bravo platforms.
03:49Yeah. So, but for me, from my understanding is that we all have such a diverse story, each six,
03:54like all six of us. Yeah. So different, completely different backgrounds. We weren't born and raised
03:58in Paris. We weren't like, you know, we're not, we're all kind of navigating completely different
04:05stories rather than just being Housewives. So that's, I think, what makes this such a special show.
04:10And I think also the struggle, like the struggle is real girlfriends in Paris. Like there are
04:16issues that have to do with things that maybe are not on a Housewives show. Yeah. Yeah. Just by being
04:24an American, not an American, you know, like a broad American advance. Yeah. And we saw from the first
04:30episode that we really touch on each of the six of your stories, like you guys said, and each kind of
04:34things that you guys are going through and relationships and dating. I want to hear from each of you. What can
04:39fans expect from your individual stories that we're going to see play out throughout the season?
04:43Want to take it? I'll go first. Okay. For me, I think the past year has been a mix between dating and
04:52career and juggling that. I'm really young, so I'm starting to learn how to balance things. I'm also,
04:58the clock is ticking and I really want to like find a French man like Anna has. Yeah. But I think most
05:04importantly, I'm very excited for everyone to see me step foot into the fashion industry, being
05:10completely inexperienced in it, a beautiful opportunity falling into my lap, me navigating
05:15the fashion world as a complete newbie, but also the conflict between what I really have always told
05:23myself I want to do and which is bringing my mom's interior design business and growing it to Parisian
05:29market. So you'll be able to see me exploring fashion, fashion design, but also find ways to
05:36incorporate interior design successfully and sometimes not successfully into my career.
05:42And in terms of dating, ups and downs, you'll have to watch that one. Yeah, that's right. 22 years
05:49old, that's going to happen. Ups and downs. Yeah. That's good. And Anya, what can we expect from you
05:54this season? Yeah, I think, you know, for me as, you know, out of the girls, I am with a man,
06:02a French man. So the focus and my focus in life is not to find that now, it's actually really to
06:11establish my business here. And what, you know, viewers can expect is to see an American woman
06:18who's entrepreneurial and who is so well versed in French culture. I have a master's in French
06:25cultural studies, and I'm licensed to give tours of any national museum and monument. And so I think
06:31there's a lot of prejudice of like, oh, these Americans, they don't know anything about French
06:34culture. I do. And I'm trying to actually take that mix of fashion, art, design, gastronomy,
06:42and put it together in a business. So I think you can definitely look out to see how some New York
06:49chutzpah can get translated into a Parisian joie de vivre. Cool. And do you have any update about
06:57wedding stuff? Are we going to see kind of that play out? What, any update with that?
07:01As I say, je ne sais chutzpah. The, the, I don't know if that joke translates, but you need to speak
07:09French and like a little Yiddish for it, or at least be sure in New York. We, honestly, right now,
07:16my goal is, is really Maison Firestone, my business, and getting that set up. And, you know,
07:24for me, the, the wedding is, it's important to me to have a Jewish ceremony. Like we want to share
07:30with our friends and family, but that is to come. Right now, I have to focus on like the foundations
07:37before I can like order the champagne. One thing we do know is I'm going to be a flower girl.
07:43Flower, flower girl right here. You heard it, you heard it here first. You heard it here first.
07:48Um, what is the biggest misconception about Paris or being a woman living in Paris? That
07:55is just a misconception from over here in America that we, you think we may have?
08:00I think the biggest misconception for me, it comes with the show, Emily in Paris.
08:05You know, I think not just that show, but I think shows and, uh, Hollywood in general,
08:11just the glamorification, glamorification of regional life. It's very glamorous. It's very
08:17beautiful, but there are way more, there's way more to it than just the beauty, the beauty and the
08:24romance, you know, there's actual reality struggles and, uh, battles that we have to go through as
08:32being Americans in Paris and people back home look at it like, Oh, they're lucky. They're living in
08:37Paris, living their best life. We're back here. You know, they have such a fairytale life and that's
08:42just not the case. Yeah. I think we have to, we have, you have to read, there's a misconception
08:45that you only have to be a privileged, spoiled, you know, to, to go to Paris and live a fabulous
08:51life. I know you'll see that with my story. Like that's absolutely not the case. Um, and,
08:57and I think what I was touching on before is that, and yeah, I think from the show, Emily in Paris,
09:02you know, there's not every American woman who comes to the city, you know, doesn't speak French,
09:08you know, you know, maybe one of our girls doesn't speak French very well, but you know,
09:13as I said, like my, my specialty is French culture. And I, I'd like to, you know, kind of
09:18push that stereotype, um, both in privilege, but also in, you know, intelligence that actually you
09:27can, you know, my, the second date I ever had with Mathieu, I took him on a private tour of the Louvre
09:31museum. And he was like, uh, I'm embarrassed. He's like, I didn't know that. Um, and so I think,
09:38you know, viewers can expect to see different strong women breaking maybe some traditional
09:44stereotypes and maybe you'll see some cliches of course, as well.
09:48It's a mix of both. I think most importantly, all of us are trying to actually make a life here
09:52rather than just, you know, vacationing or posting about it, but we're actually trying to build
09:57something of some kind of future here. Um, and I think that's, that's what's different about the
10:03show. Yeah. And what is for each of you, what is the thing that you would say you maybe have the
10:07hardest time living in Paris that you miss from living in the States or just something that you're
10:12like, Oh, this is the one thing about Paris that I kind of don't love. It's impossible to get a
10:17brisket. Oh, that's a problem. I will literally the butcher in my neighborhood knows my Mathieu went and
10:25said, Oh, do you have this cut of meat? And he goes, Oh, is it for the American woman in pink?
10:30And then she's like, what? He knows. He knows. He's like, I'm the only Jew in the seventh ordering
10:33a brisket. Can you imagine? Um, I had her brisket. It was the first time I ever tried meat
10:37and it was really bad. I invited Emily for a Rosh Hashanah. What we just met. What we just met.
10:42And she didn't have a place to go for the Jewish holiday. So I brought her in. She said she was a
10:46vegetarian and then had three servings of brisket. Not anymore. Um, and I think the other thing is
10:51really love the pace of life in New York. Sometimes I appreciate that things can get
10:56done. You know, I have that energy to get things accomplished. And in France, the productivity
11:01level is, I can't get someone to come fix my washing machine for over a year already. So I've
11:06been logging my, my bags to the laundromat three blocks away. You'll see Margot with her fridge,
11:13but I, you know, I also was like, Margot, like let's channel our New York energy here and fix it.
11:19Right. So I might have to come and take a look at your washing machine.
11:24Emily, you're from Jersey, right? What's that? You're from Jersey, right?
11:28I'm from Jersey. I'm from North Jersey. Me too. So I, I am North Jersey as well. So I totally get
11:33the whole fast pace, North Jersey, New York. I'm totally with you. So it's like I would struggle
11:37with that over in Paris. How would you guys say the dynamics between the six of you shift
11:44throughout the filming of the first season? Did people get closer? Did people get less close?
11:49I mean, it's, it's almost hard to get less close when some of us didn't know each other
11:55well from the beginning. I think you'll see us get to learn about one another and you'll
12:00also see, you know, different friendships and bonds strengthen. Because what's really
12:08incredible is that all six of us, like we are each so different. And so you'll see different
12:15characters, you know, traits in each of us will meld better with others. So I think you'll
12:22see definitely shifts, shifts in the dynamics and definitely friendships get closer. You
12:28know, we're also a group of young women, if I may say so myself.
12:32So, you know, it's natural that, you know, some are closer than others.
12:38Of course. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Do you think that this show taught you guys just being together,
12:43the six of you about female friendship? And did you learn things from each other that you
12:47don't think you would have had you not done this show with a group of women?
12:52Absolutely. I would, because, you know, I think this is the first time that I've really been
12:56together with this much of a diverse personality in one, diverse personalities in one place. So that
13:02when you put us together, you see such a stark difference. Whereas, you know, normally you have a bunch of
13:08friends here and there and whatnot. But when you're, when we're all together, it's so different
13:13that, of course, you kind of learn your influence. Like, I'm super influenced by Anya. I always talk
13:19about it and I am. And, but like, and that's the beauty of it. You know, you learn from each other.
13:25You aspire to be like each other. You teach each other. You take one in like a little,
13:29little bibit, you know? Yeah. So yeah, I think you'll definitely, I'm excited for everyone to see how,
13:35how we all, how all the personalities sort of relate and come together.
13:44And Anya, was it hard? Cause you're engaged and a lot of the other girls or most of them are all
13:49single. Was it hard for you to relate at all? Just being in a different wavelength in that field of
13:54life? Um, I think, I mean, listen, Emily's the youngest. I'm the eldest. We have a decade
14:02apart between us and we have maybe more of a, uh, bond than the other girls with either one of us.
14:10Like, and so it's, to me, it's really about personality. Like, yeah, the girls are going
14:17to go out to a handball game. Like, I don't want to go to that. I just don't. So I'm going to stay
14:21home and I have to night with, you know, a match here. And I am in a different place in my life.
14:26And I'm also, Aja calls me an out of touch millennial because like, even though like
14:32when the first time, I think one of the girls asked me like, it was an interview, like what's
14:38TikTok? And I was like the small reference. Like I, um, so I'm, I'm not in that, you know,
14:44I didn't grow up in that culture in some way. Like I was a nineties baby.
14:48But you're doing good. Um, so like the girls do. I'm sure you're learning. Um, yeah, I actually
14:54had to have Casey and Emily show me TikTok the other day. And I was like, I don't want to do this.
15:00And so, so you won't be TikTok famous is what you can say. I mean, I think she will be TikTok famous.
15:06The thing is, here's what I'm going to say. Well, you're about to be on TV, so.
15:10I will bring the art and culture of Paris to TikTok.
15:14Okay. I'll make TikTok. It needs to be out there. And then I just, cause I have to wrap
15:18up. I have one last question for each of you or that you, you guys can each answer. What
15:22is just the one thing to end it all on a positive note about Paris that you can say is just your
15:26favorite thing that you genuinely love about Paris and living there?
15:32Favorite thing?
15:33This is not, that's not, that's not, that's not easy.
15:35It's an intense, it's an intense question.
15:37I think the best thing about Paris
15:44is knowing that it does not need you because then you are really motivated to make it need
15:57you. And my entire goal and what you'll see this season is how I constantly try to create
16:03a place for myself so that if I was not in that place, there would be something missing.
16:08So in some way it's a bit of a challenge, but it's the most beautiful, stimulating,
16:14delicious, aesthetic challenge that I've ever tried to digest.
16:18That sounds like absolutely beautifully. I cannot even, I can't even.
16:22I love it. Now that was a mic drop, mic drop. Now I'm like, I'm going to book my,
16:26I'm going to book my flight right now. I think I'm going to book my flight.
16:28All right. Well, thank you guys so much for taking the time.
16:31Book your flight. We'll see you in Paris.
16:33Literally. Yes. I'm so excited to see the rest of the season play out and thank you guys
16:37and congrats on being a part of the show.
16:40Bye guys.
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