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Emily In Paris star Lucas Bravo reveals to Melissa Nathoo that he felt inspired to"flirt with danger" after playing Bruno Sulak in new French movie Freedom. He also plans to act in different languages in the future. Report by Nathoom. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00Lucas, lovely to see you again and congratulations on this film because I feel even just you being
00:06in it is just opening up to a whole world of people so that's pretty amazing. But when it's
00:13in French, do you connect with material more so than it being in English or anything else?
00:20That's a great question actually. I have a kind of a split personality by now because
00:28it's such a different structure acting in English and acting in French.
00:33English is more expensive, it's not the same architecture so it feels like it's the same job
00:43but it's a completely different universe and so I react to the same depth and intensity but in
00:53completely different ways. It's like when you fall in love with a person you feel like you're
00:57never going to be in love again and then you fall in love again with the same intensity or higher
01:02but in a completely different way. It's how I feel about both. Before it was just the French but now
01:11they're kind of on the same level for different reasons.
01:13That's a great way of putting it, to understand it, a really good way.
01:16How much were you aware of Bruno before you came? Because he's very well known I guess.
01:22Not so much actually.
01:24I didn't know him. My socialist uncle knew him, a few people in my family but
01:32no, before Melanie brought the book to my attention I didn't know him.
01:35He's like the nice criminal. What is he, the gentleman robber is maybe what they called him?
01:41We had Mesrine at the same period and we called him public enemy number one
01:46and so he was being called public friend number one.
01:49I like that, I wouldn't mind being public friend number one.
01:51Sounds like a lot of responsibility on Instagram though.
01:54Probably yes. Did you learn though much from him maybe about how to get your own way?
02:01Because he seemed to do that a lot.
02:04Yeah, it is inspiring. He lived in times, back then it was different.
02:11Rules were different, everything was more open and possible.
02:14The fact that you could just walk into a jewellery store, take the thing and be like
02:19or enter a prison to just deliver your friend from the main entrance was,
02:26you cannot do that anymore. Everything's more controlled, barricaded.
02:29Can you say that?
02:30When I left the movie, I felt like I wanted to not do something bad
02:37but I kind of wanted to flirt with danger a bit.
02:41And even preparing the movie, I wanted to enter a supermarket and do a fake heist.
02:47With a water gun but I was like, it can be either genius instead of perspiration
02:53or just go to jail and bring problems to the production just for a kiwi on a watermelon.
03:01I love that.
03:05Yeah, I wanted to bring something very sweet and cute
03:07so in case I get arrested or it gets sour, I'm like, I'm doing research for a movie.
03:12Exactly, but you got to do the next best thing.
03:14We get to see you doing it anyway on screen.
03:17It was very cute but we see there's so much heart in this movie
03:21which you just don't expect when you're watching a film about a criminal,
03:25which he is essentially.
03:27And I love the relationship as well that he had with his girlfriend Annie
03:31and you see them taking pictures of each other and things like that
03:35and I'm curious, he would be, if he was still here today,
03:38a very good Instagram boyfriend.
03:39You know what an Instagram boyfriend is?
03:41Would you be a good Instagram boyfriend in the same way?
03:44I think if Annie really needed that, he would do it for her
03:47but he's definitely too rebellious too.
03:50He would hate social media.
03:52He would hate it.
03:53Money's no object for him at this point.
03:55He's stolen so much and he treats himself to different things.
04:01If money was no object, what would you treat yourself to?
04:03I guess I would love to have some kind of
04:09Switzerland-like house lost in a...
04:14Like a chalet?
04:15On a hill.
04:16Not a chalet, not as fancy but something a bit more farmy.
04:21On a hill, I just see grass, I just see a little river
04:25and just permaculture, planting, solar, everything independent.
04:31You're very into nature though, aren't you?
04:33I think you are too.
04:35You are too if you listen to your instincts.
04:38We all are.
04:39We just refuse to see the connection.
04:41But yeah, it's the best way to recharge.
04:46It's the best way to be because we live in the city
04:49and we're never barefoot, for example, on the ground, in the grass.
04:55You know, when you're in Paris or London,
04:57I feel like it's harder to...
04:59You're barefoot at home but not...
05:02And there's a literal energy coming through your feet from the ground
05:08if you take time to just put your feet on the grass.
05:11So that's one of the things we cut ourselves from
05:14and there's many other things like that.
05:18So yeah, nature is important.
05:20I was in Tuscany the other day and I was like,
05:21this is just the greatest.
05:24That's where I would want to be.
05:25Don't say Tuscany in this room.
05:27We haven't had any vacation in months.
05:30It's all right.
05:30Your time is coming.
05:31Your time is coming.
05:32And listen, we have seen you now.
05:34We see you act in English, obviously, I mean in Paris, in French.
05:38And I definitely, like I said,
05:39I think you being in this film would bring it to a huge audience as well.
05:43Do you think you would do any films in any other languages?
05:46Because you know Italian as well, right?
05:49And Spanish, I think.
05:50And also Japanese.
05:51I heard that you have a world of opportunities.
05:55Oh, Japanese, I cannot act in Japanese
05:57but I'm still taking lessons.
06:00I have a private teacher and she comes at home
06:03and we have a two-hour conversation.
06:06I'm still at the beginning.
06:09I've been shooting back to back,
06:10so I haven't been very present lately.
06:13But I'm still at the, you know,
06:15Watashi wa Lukasandes face of just presenting and stuff like that.
06:21But Italian, yeah, I'm definitely considering it
06:23because since I lived in Italy when I was eight,
06:26it comes naturally without an accent.
06:28So I would love to do a, I've been thinking about it lately,
06:33so I will do it.
06:34I wish I could speak other languages.
06:36Just very poor French is what I get.
06:38It's actually amazing how there's something that opens
06:42when you realise, I realised at a young age,
06:46not that I had anything to do with it
06:47because I followed my father who started playing in Parma in Italy
06:51and they put me in an Italian school
06:54which sounded like such a bad idea at the time
06:56but now I'm kind of glad it did.
06:58And in a month I was speaking Italian without an accent
07:02because you're a sponge when you're at that age.
07:06And it opened up something, made me realise how,
07:11you know, you have access to so many,
07:13to so much more in this world, you know.
07:16And we kind of walk through this forest of symbols
07:19and we're trying to decipher them
07:21through the medium of our educations and traumas
07:24and the more language you get,
07:27the more the world starts to, you know,
07:28structure and shape before your eyes.
07:30So I kind of got thirsty for more languages.
07:35Yeah, the world is more open now, I think, to films in other languages.
07:40Yes, I don't think the States are ready for subtitles yet
07:43but they're slowly getting to it.
07:45Well, Parasite won best film at the Oscars, so you never know.
07:49Oh yeah, yeah, absolutely.
07:50So maybe.
07:51I mean, the artist was Mute.
07:55I mean, it was about...
07:56So we're getting there.
07:57So yeah, so it's just little panels and then subtitles.
08:02But yeah, my friends are like, I dubbed it in English
08:06but I think you always lose a bit of the performance.
08:08No, I prefer in the original language.
08:12It's good.
08:12This is how I watch my South Korean movies.
08:15Absolutely.
08:16It's the best.
08:16Same, same.
08:17And they're great as well.
08:18But this is great too, Lucas.
08:20So thank you so much and good luck with it.
08:22Nice to see you again.
08:23Thank you for making time.
08:24Thank you for being here.

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