‘Emily in Paris’ Ashley Park Says Doing Topless Scene Was ‘Worst Nightmare’ (Unique)

Ashley Park is opening up concerning the “annoying” expertise of filming her topless scene in Emily in Paris.

In episode 8 of season 4 of the Netflix collection, Park’s character, aspiring singer Mindy — who’s on a mission to boost cash for her band to compete in Eurovision — agrees to carry out at Loopy Horse, an iconic Parisian cabaret identified for its nude feminine dancers.

Talking with PEOPLE at a press occasion for the present in Rome, Italy, on Tuesday, Sept. 10, the 33-year-old actress described performing the scene as “each actor’s worst nightmare.”

“We’ve got this recurrent reminiscence of being onstage, not understanding what you are doing, in your underwear,” Park defined. “And that’s what I used to be dwelling out truly, however surrounded by probably the most lovely dancers on this planet round me.”

Park mentioned she struggled to get the job accomplished. “It was so annoying and so onerous to do,” she advised PEOPLE of the Loopy Horse scene. “If it had not been for the choreographer, Kyle Hanagami, coming in and my crew round me, I do not suppose I’d’ve gotten by it.”

Within the episode, Mindy experiences comparable nerves about having to strip down onstage — and she or he even discovers throughout rehearsals that her singing voice is affected when she’s topless. Ultimately, she comes up with a artistic resolution to get her by the efficiency comfortably. As she dances topless to the Britney Spears hit “Oops!… I Did It Once more,” she has BFF Emily (Lily Collins) throw her completely different purses from off-stage to make use of to cowl her physique.

Finally, Park advised PEOPLE, she is “truly actually happy with [the scene] now,” noting that it is one performing expertise she “will always remember doing.”

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The Beef actress additionally spoke about one other memorable singing efficiency she did in Emily in Paris‘ newest season. Throughout a go to to Rome with Emily within the remaining episode, the 2 associates are strolling by a piazza at evening, when one thing Emily says concerning the magic of Rome offers Mindy a spark of inspiration for a music she’s in the course of writing.

She runs as much as a road performer at a piano and asks the person if she will be able to use the instrument. She sits down and sings an emotional ballad — which she and Emily later title “Stunning Ruins” — as a crowd gathers round her to hear.

“The ultimate music in Rome is particular, simply because it was unique. It is one which Mindy wrote,” Park advised PEOPLE of the second, including, “[Songwriter] Freddy Wexler did such a wonderful job at infusing what felt like fact in my life into what was occurring for the character.”

On the purple carpet premiere of half 2 of season 4, Emily in Paris creator Darren Star defined his option to take the present — through which Paris performs a central a part of the narrative — on the highway to Rome. He advised PEOPLE he “needed to broaden the footprint of the present” and “broaden out the universe.”

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“But in addition, Rome to me is like the opposite nice romantic metropolis in Europe, and it is a bit of a yin and yang to Paris,” Star added. “And likewise the story took us right here. You realize, Italy is — identical to France — kind of identified for trend, design, type, differently.”

Star additionally shared his hope that the present, which premiered in 2020, will get a fifth season. “I hope so,” he mentioned, noting he already has “some concepts” for what could possibly be subsequent for Emily, Mindy and the opposite principal characters. “It is actually a enjoyable story to maintain telling.”

 Elements 1 and a couple of of Emily in Paris season 4 are actually streaming on Netflix.