Lily Collins Reflects On Her Father & Emily In Paris With W Magazine

Lily Collins sat down with W magazine to promote her new series, Emily In Paris. The young actress plays a young American sent to Paris for an amazing job opportunity with a marketing film. Highlights from her interview are below.

On her reaction to her father, Phil Collins’ song “In the Air Tonight” being a viral sensation: “I was like, ‘Dad, I’m sure you’ve literally received this so many times, but please watch this’. I remember having this conversation with him when I was younger. I would share with him the music and the new bands that I was listening to at the time. He was just as inspired by young musicians and young artists, just as much as when you read interviews of up-and-coming artists and they talk about who they admire. So I think he really gets a kick out of seeing how his music, which I’m sure sometimes he thinks is so past irrelevant, comes around again.”

On her character Emily: “A big thing, for us, in the development of Emily was that we never wanted it to seem as thought she had to have this transformation in order to be accepted. She’s like, ‘I’m not going to change who I am, but I’m going to wear that Eiffel Tower shirt if I want to. And I’m going to carry that Mona Lisa bag, because I’m obvious and that’s great.’ She’s proud of who she is, but she’s not afraid to adapt to where she is as well.”

You can check out even more from her interview here. Emily In Paris premieres on Netflix in October.