The see-saw romance between Emily and Gabriel has formed a large part of the focus, and earned Emily in Paris a sizeable section of its fandom. The handsome Gabriel, a chef aspiring for a Michelin Star, shares a complicated relationship with Emily and, at the end of Season 3, he was dumped at the altar by Camille (played by Camille Razat), even though she is purportedly pregnant with his baby.

Lucas Bravo has played Gabriel since Season One of the Netflix show. The 36-year-old French actor chatted with t2oS on being Gabriel and trying his hand at rustling up pastries.

With Camille leaving him high and dry at the altar and him still feeling conflicted about his feelings for Emily, there is a lot going on in Gabriel’s life. What was filming Season 4 like as Gabriel navigates all these complications?

There have been some big challenges this season. At the end of Season Three, you do feel that he has been struggling. He is losing a lot...he got left at the altar. So you feel like he is going to have to recover from something huge.

But when you start Season Four, you realise that Gabriel chose to see the glass as half full. He is super excited and confident and he is just going for that Michelin Star. He is chasing after the woman he loves and he is just so excited about the prospect of being a dad.

As Lucas, is there any one thing about Gabriel that you wish you had? And something about him that you are grateful you don’t have?

I wish I had his cooking abilities because cooking at a Michelin Star level must be nice. And I am glad I don’t have his incapability to address and verbalise his feelings or at least own up to his mistakes.

Do you cook, even if it isn’t of a Michelin Star level?

Yes, I like to cook. I like to cook a lot of things. Earlier, I wasn’t too much into pastries because they are hard to accomplish and they demand so much precision. It is so hard and it is so easy to miss. But I just got into pastries (smiles). A lot of pies, a lot of lemon pies and stuff like that. I am trying things these days.

A lot of it must come from the script, but as an actor, how have you contributed to how Gabriel has evolved over the course of four seasons?

I feel like it evolves all the time because every season captures only a gap of a year in the lives of the characters. But after every season, as actors we go back into the world. We shoot other projects. We meet other people. We gather experience. We change and we grow. And then we have to come back to a show where only one day has passed. It is hard to jump back into the shoes.

So what I am trying to do is infuse little nuances into the person I am today so that it will help me a year from now. It is not always easy because nobody changes that much and gets a year worth of experience in a day.

But Darren (Star, the creator of Emily in Paris) gave me enough room in Season Four to infuse all the changes. He made more room within the arc of my character.