Emily in Paris’ Lucas Bravo Is Returning as Gabriel for Season 5 After Criticizing the Show

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Lucas Bravo is returning to Emily in Paris for season 5 after he threw shade at his character, Gabriel.
Bravo, 36, will film scenes for season 5 when the show goes into production in May 2025, according to Variety. Gabriel’s Michelin-rated restaurant is set to be one of the backdrops of the upcoming season as Emily in Paris remains in, well, Paris — with some scenes being filmed in Rome after Emily (Lily Collins) got a job offer in Italy. The outlet reported that a third destination for the show is being explored with Saint-Tropez or Megeve currently in consideration.
The news of Bravo’s return comes after he expressed frustration with Gabriel’s arc in recent seasons.
“The ‘sexy chef’ was very much part of me in season 1 and we grew apart season after season because of the choices he makes and because of the direction they make him take,” Bravo told IndieWire in October. “I’ve never been so far away from him.”
Bravo said he thinks Gabriel had “slowly turned into guacamole” before making a dig about narrative “souffles” and a “lack of risk” on screen.

“In season 1, there was a lot of me in him. But as they made him kind of unaware of his surroundings, of the dynamic, always victimizing and always being completely lost in translation and oblivious to anything that is happening around him and being manipulated by everyone, it kind of became not fun for me to shoot,” he noted. “Or to see a character I love so much and brought me so much, being slowly turned into guacamole. I really grew apart from him.”
The actor attempted to voice his issues, adding, “[But] there is only so much I can do in the limits of a script. I tried for seasons to bring nuances but we don’t have much liberty on set. We cannot change a word or an emotion. They know what they want and we just have to comply.”
“It makes me question if I want to be part of season 5 — because my contract ends at season 4. I really want to see if Gabriel gets back to his fun, cheeky, playful, alive self,” he continued. “Because three seasons playing melancholic, sad, depressed, and lost is not fun anymore. It’s a comedy, everybody is having fun around me, everybody is jumping around, and I’m just slowly sinking into god knows what.”
“The show is Emily in Paris — not Gabriel in Paris,” an insider shared earlier this month. “Everyone is so upset about the remarks he made. There is going to be a lot of tension.”