Her voice is pitch-perfect, her delivery confidently flawless and she has the skills as both an actor, dancer and songstress to pull it off with a breezy insouciance we haven't seen since Heath Ledger crooned I Can't Take My Eyes Off You in Ten Things I Hate About You and made it look easy. I've had to make do with exhausting every Golden film set in France from Cary Grant and Grace Kelly in To Catch a Thief to Grace Kelly again in High Society with Frank Sinatra and Bing Crosby.Īshley, both as Mindy and as multi-award winning singer in her own right is the heir to Streisand, Minelli and Julie Andrews. It's intoxicating and it all makes this editor want to run away to Paris right now, and luxuriate in cafe society, culture and romance again. And no wonder, the song is soaked in Broadway chutzpah, escapism, longing and sweet romance. Mon Soleil is busy breaking streaming records for Netflix. Benoit and Mindy Discovering Love and Music in the Park Well, we can blame Coco Chanel for that.Ĭollins and Park have blossomed into close friends outside the series and that closeness and obvious camaraderie reinforce their friendship on-screen and the sense that they are having one hell of a time sticking it to the beau monde whilst revelling in the spectacle and of course joining in, making mistakes and being changed by the experience.Įach in their own way is embracing the romance of the city of love, friendship and self-discovery - from Emily sleeping with Gabriel in the heat of a late-night au revoir - to Mindy crawling out of her traumatised shell from the fiasco of Chinese Idol, and enchanting hardened clubbers with her original love song Mon Soleil, written for her by her friend and hitmaker, Freddy Wexler. Mindy Kisses Cami as Luke and Emily Look OnĪshley Park as Mindy Chen is the perfect wing-girl for Lily Collins's skittish Emily, the American in Paris who has gone rogue in the city of Hemingway, dog poo, over-priced cafe complete and fashion as a religion. It's the postcard from Paris that says that life, culture, fun, love and dressing up are back on again - let's spray a bottle of Champere to that. No wonder series three and four have been commissioned faster than it takes Pierre Cadault to throw another pointless, ugly tantrum. I like this mixture of drama, comedy and fabulous chanteuse interludes. Darren Star did it in 1998 with Sex and the City and he has pulled it off again more than two decades on with a clever new take on his heroine negotiating the crazy and intoxicating world of fashion, culture, gastronomy and luxury. It's the drama, misadventures and comedy we need to re-discover the confidence to go out and live again. The scenes on the bridge certainly lend an Alice in Wonderland, stellar stardust highpoint to Emily in Paris 2 and it reinforces why the series is such a hit. High octane, old school glamour is back with a dash of Broadway stardust not seen since Cary met Big on a certain bridge in 2004 and then again in the sequel Just Like That. ![]() Ashley Park as Mindy and Kevin Dias as Benoit Busking in Emily in Paris 2 Park is nothing less than a singing bird of paradise with the moves and star persona to match. If Park's wistful, elegiac struggles to be heard and taken seriously in her own right doesn't brush off the collective trauma of the past two years, nothing can. ![]() No wonder the series made it into Netflix's top ten shows and Emily in Paris was the most-watched comedy of 2020. It's showtime and the escapism we all crave. Thank the stars and heaven for Ashley Park, Tony-nominated Broadway songbird actor and dancer extraordinaire busking on the Pont des Arts, as the runaway heiress, on one of Paris's most photogenic and alluring hotspots in a dreamily eclectic vintage style dress that is a riot of cultural symbolism, slow fashion and marabou and singing her way to a massive hit with Mon Soleil. Is Emily in Paris the most fun we can have via osmosis? ![]() Lily Collins and Ashley Park in Emily in Paris 2
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