They are literally victims of its success.
Some residents of the 5th arrondissement district of the capital, in which season 4 of
Emily in Paris
is filmed , would indeed be hostile to the presence of film crews from the series produced by Netflix.
According to Le
Parisien
, tags have flourished on the facades of businesses and buildings on Place de l'Estrapade.
Among the messages invoked: “Emily, get out of it, Paris Sud is not yours”, “
Emily Not
Welcome
”
, or even “
Emily Is Shit
”
. is bullshit, Editor's note
) - an inscription tagged on the fountain in the center of the square, which no longer appeared a few days later, the newspaper specifies.
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So, would the residents of this once quiet neighborhood be up in arms against the filming of this new burst of episodes?
In a report,
France Bleu
evokes, for its part, a “fed up” of the inhabitants, notably “annoyed” by the preparations for the filming, between camouflaged facades, replanted roses and paint on peeling benches.
The media also mentions a local resident irritated by the few dozen vans which prevent her from parking.
The influx of tourists would also be a source of anger for some residents.
“I came to settle here because it was a family neighborhood, central and above all very quiet, today that is no longer the case,”
Julianna, who has lived not far from there for a decade, tells
France Bleu
.
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This is confirmed by certain Internet users, like @raphaelle_milone, in an Instagram post published by
Vanity Fair
.
“We are invaded by Emily fans/lookalikes from all over the world, they wear red berets (or worse) viscose miniskirts and purple suede thigh high boots, and unknowingly machine gun the poor people leaving the Center medico-psychological with their iPhones augmented with telescopic canes, she writes in the comments.
Given the charm of the square and the neighborhood, this amounts to “murder”.”
The Internet user here refers to the Fossés Saint-Jacques center which is actually opposite Emily Cooper's apartment.
“I don’t understand how people can complain.”
In 2021, at the time of filming season 2, the newspaper
Le Monde
was already discussing the inconvenience caused by this device.
“We are used to filming in the neighborhood,” Laurence confided to the daily newspaper.
But with
Emily in Paris
, we discovered the arrogance of blockbusters.
Because they pay the merchants and the parking, they think they have bought the whole neighborhood.”
Some Internet users share this point of view.
But for traders, precisely, the filming of
Emily in Paris
is more of a godsend than a real embarrassment.
Kamel Tajouri, who runs a supplies store in the neighborhood, declared to
Figaro TV
that he was enjoying the filming, and sometimes saw curious people hiding in his store to observe the backstage of the show.
Michel Chandeigne, manager of a Portuguese and Brazilian bookstore, castigates the detractors of the show.
“I don’t understand how people can complain,” he says to
Figaro TV.
There is undoubtedly an Emily effect.
Thanks to her, there are a lot of people who come!”
A point of view shared by Valerio Abate, co-owner of the Terra Nera restaurant, in which the character of Gabriel (Lucas Bravo) - renamed Les Deux Compères - officiates in the series.
“It counterbalances this image of a slightly dirty Paris,” he greets.
We need this!”
In Le
Parisien
, the owner of the La Nouvelle Mairie café does not believe in the general fed up.
“It's more like people who must have been bored and who had a blast on a Saturday night during the holidays,” he said about the tags.
It's been three seasons of
Emily in Paris
and I've never had a problem before."
A “more reasonable” shoot
The owner of the Italian restaurant Terrra Nera emphasizes that this filming is a “luck”.
“Emily’s great success is a chance for Paris… he says daily.
Big cities would have dreamed of having it.”
Florence Berthout, the mayor (Horizons) of the 5th arrondissement, admits in Le
Parisien
that there is an “understandable form of annoyance” in the neighborhood.
“For this new filming, we asked the production to be more reasonable: there will be fewer trucks and the number of days of filming, during these holidays, will be limited to three”, indicates the city councilor to the daily.
While waiting for the end of filming, scheduled for February 24, those who are most resistant will have to be patient.