Emily in Paris Season 5 Premieres

“The thing that’s interesting about this season is, instead of it being open-ended for Emily, Emily is cool. She is fine. She is actually more concerned at work with what Princess Jane is bringing to the table. She’s great with how she handled things with Gabriel and Marcello, it’s Gabriel that’s unsure, and I love that there’s a shift there. I think it’s really nice that Gabriel came to Rome, but [Emily] didn’t know it, and she was just fine. She’s fine right now, and Gabriel’s still thinking about her, so I don’t know what that means for the two of them. I just know that we’re ending Season Five with Emily being like, ‘Romantically, I’m good.’”

“It was really important, I think, in a friendship as strong as Mindy and Emily’s, to show cracks and to show the realistic nature of what a friendship is. Things aren’t always perfect, and what does that even mean, but it’s how to communicate through those hiccups and moments, and to not pass judgments on each other, and also to not assume you know how the other person is going to react.”

“Mindy’s never chosen the easier path for herself. She could just stay and be an heiress and make it up with her family and do whatever they want and live an easy life. In past seasons too she’s always picked the harder path for herself when she knows it’s the right path. I think because maybe this rift with Emily softened her, I don’t want to say weakened her, she kind of just wants to choose the easy path. And we see her make decisions in a spontaneous way that maybe she shouldn’t.”

“What we loved so much about that scene, I remember when we first read the scene, we were both like, ‘Oh no. Poor Emily! Oh Emily, no,’. I think that in all of the tense moments of the show, this is what Darren and the writers do so beautifully, and we actually discuss [it] a lot off scene. What we try to infuse into every scene and the lines in particular is this sense of grand comedy even in the biggest fights.”