Q&A: Lily Collins is ‘Emily in Paris,’ Rome and Barcelona

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Please enter a valid email address Please enter a valid email address SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. As the star and producer of “Emily in Paris,” she’s been playing the unlucky-in-love marketing executive, breaking hearts in France for the past three seasons of the Netflix show. “It just ironically happened to be the year that I would then be doing theater right after.” In a recent interview with The Associated Press in Rome, Collins explains why it’s the right time for her London stage debut and how filming in Rome allowed her to channel Audrey Hepburn’s on-screen Italian adventure in “Roman Holiday.” It has been edited for brevity and clarity. But it is a time commitment that when you’re doing something like “Emily in Paris,” that is also the biggest time commitment. This season, because “Emily in Paris” is more known, when you’re out and about in the streets, it does become a bit of live theater because you can’t control people watching all the time.