Ashley Park Teases Exciting Musical Moments in ‘Emily in Paris’ Season 5
Fans of Mindy Chen have reason to be excited. Ashley Park, who plays the character in Emily in Paris, revealed that the upcoming fifth season will bring some big musical moments for her role.
Park, 34, spoke to Us Weekly during the launch of her new multisensory art installation, CHROMA: Tales Between Hues, created in collaboration with Genesis House in New York City.
“There’s definitely some big, big moments in terms of song and dance with Mindy this year, which I’m super excited for people to see,” she said.
The Netflix series’ fifth season is set to premiere on December 18. Park explained that filming took her and the cast to multiple locations, including Rome, Paris, and Venice. “That teaser is just from Rome, and as people know, we filmed in Rome, Paris for a big chunk and also Venice, so it feels like we filmed three movies in one summer,” she said.
She also joked that she spent more time on boats than in cafés this season. “I kid you not, I spent more hours on a boat than sitting in a café: the different water taxis in Venice, the gondolas, the speedboats in Rome. I was on a boat a lot,” she told Us Weekly.
In addition to the music and travel, Park hinted that viewers will see more emotional depth this season. “There’s a lot of emotional elements in this new season that we really haven’t delved into before,” she said. “We really understand the characters in those relationships, the friendship between them and that sisterhood, all the real ways in which those get tested.”
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The day of the interview was also special for Park personally, as her parents and grandmother attended the launch of her Genesis House installation, which celebrates her Korean-American roots. “[Genesis House] pays such respect and honor to the heritage of Korea, but in such a modern, imaginative, creative way,” she said.
She explained that the project combines the traditional Korean color system, Obangsaek, with her personal stories and Korean folktales. “Every other time my grandma has come to New York to watch me in a Broadway show, there’s that barrier of language. So I think something that I was really moved by and excited about was that Genesis has helped me realize that emotion is a universal language,” Park said.
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