Ashley Park Hints at Major Musical Surprises in ‘Emily in Paris’ Season 5
Mindy Chen fans have something to look forward to. Ashley Park, who plays the fan-favorite character in Emily in Paris, shared that the upcoming fifth season will bring some exciting new moments, especially for her musical side.
The 34-year-old actress spoke with Us Weekly while promoting her new art project, CHROMA: Tales Between Hues, a multisensory installation she created with Genesis House in New York City. During the interview, Park teased what’s next for her character.
“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.
Just hours before the event, Netflix released a teaser for the show’s fifth season, which arrives on December 18. Park said the teaser only shows a glimpse of what’s coming. “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 explained.
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Park shared that this season will feature more adventure than ever before. “The first season, I spent most of my time sitting in a café talking to Emily, and 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 joked.
Beyond the musical numbers and scenic filming, Park also said viewers will see a deeper side of the characters this season. “There’s a lot of emotional elements in this new season that we really haven’t delved into before,” she told Us Weekly.
“I think it’s always fun doing that, that we really understand the characters in those relationships, the friendship between them and that sisterhood, all the real ways in which those get tested.”
It was an especially meaningful day for Park, as her parents and grandmother attended the New York launch of her Genesis House collaboration, which celebrates her Korean-American heritage.
“[Genesis House] pays such respect and honor to the heritage of Korea, but in such a modern, imaginative, creative way,” she said. “I’m super humbled by [the collab]. What we’ve done is the Obangsaek — the Korean colors red, yellow, blue, white, and black — and we infuse a lot of my personal stories with the Korean folktales that we’re doing.”
She added that this project means a lot to her family. “Every other time my grandma has come to New York to watch me in a Broadway show, there’s that barrier of language,” Park said. “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.”
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