Interpreter of Chef Gabriel in the series
Emily in Paris
, the Frenchman Lucas Bravo did not hold his tongue and
openly criticized the script of the Netflix production and the directions the writers took
They dreamed for their character. But that did not prevent him from registering for the 2025 Emmys and trying for an unprecedented nomination for Best Actor in a Comedy Series.
It is the opposite path to the one taken by
Katherine Heigl
, the eternal Izzie Stevens of
Grey’s Anatomy
For those who don’t remember, in 2007, the actress had won the Emmy for Best Supporting Actress in a Drama Series — she is, to this day, the only member of the main cast to have been awarded at the “Oscar of television”. However, the following year, she didn’t even submit herself for the competition.
Questioned about the reason for not putting her name in the 2008 Emmy race, she was very sincere. “I didn’t think I received a good enough material to be nominated, and in an attempt to maintain the integrity of the organizing academy, I withdrew my name from the competition.”
Katherine’s statement had a negative impact at the time, and she ended up leaving the medical drama in 2010. Last year, the actress even admitted that she regretted being so honest. “I should have said: ‘Oh, I forgot to send my application’. Because that created a whirlwind that was completely unnecessary,” she told Shannen Doherty’s (1971-2024) podcast.
“I tried to be sarcastic about the material the writers had given me that year, but I really wasn’t liking the direction Izzie was taking on the show. I didn’t think there was anything worth an award. And I wasn’t proud of my work. I just wanted to be honest,” summarized the artist.
Lucas Bravo, in turn, decided to try an award nomination even without liking the scripts of Emily in Paris. He spoke so badly about the series that he considered leaving the cast. However, in the end, the French actor ended up correctly returning for the fifth season, which is currently being filmed.
“Three seasons playing melancholic, sad, depressed and lost is no longer fun. It’s a comedy, everyone around me is having fun, everyone is jumping, and I am slowly sinking into God knows what,” he said in an interview with the website IndieWire last October.
The ‘sexy chef’ was part of me in the first season, and we gradually drifted apart season by season because of the choices he made and because of the direction those choices led him to. I’ve never been so far away from him,” Bravo confessed. “It wasn’t really fun for me to see a character that I love so much and that has given me so much being slowly transformed into guacamole.
“I tried during seasons to bring nuances [to Gabriel], but we don’t have much freedom on the set. We can’t change a word or an emotion. They [producers] know what they want, and we just have to comply. There’s little I can do within the limits of a script,” said the actor.
Apart from hypocrisy, Lucas Bravo will hardly be one of the names announced next Tuesday (15), when the Television Academy will reveal the list of nominees for the 2025 Emmys.
In the category in which the Frenchman is competing, the most favored names are
Seth Rogen
(The Studio), Jeremy Allen White (The Bear),
Martin Short
(Only Murders in the Building)
Adam Brody
(Nobody Wants) and Jason Segel (Speaking the Truth).
Steve Martin
(Only Murders in the Building)
Ted Danson
(Um Espião Infiltrado) and Nathan Fielder (O Ensaio) also have some chance of entering the competition. The Gold Derby website, which compiles each actor’s chances, does not even list Lucas Bravo among the 40 artists with any support for the award.
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