December 10, 2025 • 21 mins
Emily in Paris star Lucien Laviscount stops by the Mercedes-Benz Interview Lounge for a hilarious and heartfelt conversation about season five, his unexpected journey from Antigua to England to the Netflix spotlight, and how a chance encounter with David Beckham changed his life forever.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Live from the Mercedes Benz Interview Lounge.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Great time with Dan Harris. Dan will be back.
Speaker 1 (00:09):
That voice, man, yeah, that voice really meditates you.
Speaker 3 (00:14):
Right, which came first, the meditation or the voice does?
Speaker 2 (00:16):
He does have that neck nuts the ball Ballsy voices.
Is Lucy in here, Lucy paging Lucy on a table
for one Lucian there he is Lucy and Elvis. I'm
sorry I didn't get a chance to say hi, but
we're already on and so we're acting. I have that
(00:37):
same coat. I have the same exact one. I'm not
gonna use brand names on the air because the fire
me that's so funny.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
I have that hat.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
We're here to sell the bakay Lucy and Levis count
is here. And of course season five of Emily with
Paris is breaking when in six days, seven days, eight days,
eight days.
Speaker 4 (00:57):
Eighteenth eighteenth to day seven but get ready it's crazy.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
Well, uh, we're big fans.
Speaker 5 (01:02):
I appreciate that, Thank you so much.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
And you were, of course you merged in season two
and Lucien, of course, Alfie was only going to be
there for what season?
Speaker 5 (01:13):
Maybe two episodes?
Speaker 2 (01:15):
Two episodes? Yeah, two episodes? So what did you do?
Do you got new photos on someone or something?
Speaker 4 (01:20):
Listen, listen, listen. It doesn't work like that, not in
my world. Not in my world. Maybe radio is different,
but exactly.
Speaker 5 (01:26):
Yeahs fired over here were morning man.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
You're the bottom feeders of the editnet. You said it, man,
I don't believe that at all.
Speaker 5 (01:33):
By the way, by the way, can I just.
Speaker 4 (01:35):
Say, yeah, I love this show more than anything, and
I've got this whole pressum to do and I'm gassed
to be here. So thank you so much for having me.
I'm never this excited early in the morning, So yeah,
thank you.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
Okay, well let's do a wrap up. Let's do it
around it. Yeah, so let's go around. I'm gonna go
back to that question I was about to ask about. Yes,
uh you are you're from Antiga originally, Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4 (01:55):
Antiga Burnley. My father' from Antiga. I grew up in Burnley,
north of England, outside Manchester. We kind of get that.
You guys get the southern hospitality. We get like the
northern hospitality. So yeah, it's a little bit of a
switch around, not a reach around to switch around for us,
but uh but yeah, and and yeah, we like to
have fun in the north of England.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
Well, okay, so as far as your character, Alfhie goes yes,
and so you're not character, you realize an actor from
Antigua to London, but you're a Londoner in Paris as
a character, right, and then you're going to Italy this season.
Speaker 5 (02:34):
I I don't know what I can say, but we
we do.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
We do a little bit of a it's a little
bit of a dance between Italy. Your attorney, you keep
looking at her.
Speaker 5 (02:44):
Well, this is Netflix over here, so I don't want
to get soon. I listen.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
If we are able to have a season six, I'd
love to come back.
Speaker 5 (02:51):
So I'm gonna put my best foot forward.
Speaker 4 (02:54):
Okay, but but yeah, it's it's a it's a it's
a beautiful dance between Italy and Paris this season.
Speaker 5 (02:58):
Put it that way.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
Let net I was about to spend eighty billion dollars
in cash on another deal. They're running out of money
over there, left and right.
Speaker 5 (03:04):
Listen, man, as long as I'm good, I'm good. I'm happy.
I'm happy.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
Okay, so great to work with Alphie. Was supposed to
be two episodes and then something happened. I mean, something
happened between you and the writers, the producers, the directors.
Something happened where they said, this actor Lucien and his
character Alfie is very important for the future of this franchise.
(03:28):
What was it?
Speaker 5 (03:30):
Honestly, I have no idea, I'll be honest. Okay.
Speaker 4 (03:34):
So I got to I got to Paris. It was
my first time in Paris. I auditioned. Actually, I sent
a self tape from New York. I was in New York,
sent a cel tape. I got on a zoom call
the day after with Darren Star, the creator, and Lillie Collins,
and the whole time on the zoom call, I had
these thirteen pages of dialogue to run through, and all
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I was thinking about was this dialogue. We spoke for
forty five minutes. The whole time, I have no idea
what we spoke about, because I was just trying to
remember my lines. And then the next day I got
a call saying, you go into Paris. And this was
the time we had a quarantine, and it was my
first time in Paris. So I did twelve days in
a hotel room by myself, panicking, going on this roller
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coaster emotionally about what I'm going to do when I
turn up to set, and then the last few hours
of my quarantine, I was just like, just say the lines,
just to enjoy it, make everyone's life easy and enjoy yourself.
And I had a great time. Like we kicked off
really well. The cast was amazing. I've got to gotta
throw a shout out to Lily as well. I think
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Lily really had my back on it. And yeah, I
wrapped on the second episode I was supposed to shoot
and then Darren said, Lucien came to set. He said,
You're not going anywhere. So I sat around. I think
that's probably about ten am in the morning. I sat
around on set at about seven pm and then Darren
came over to me and said, what are you doing here?
(04:56):
And he said, well, I said, you told me not
to leave. He told me I'm not going anywhere. He said, no, no, no,
I mean you're not leaving the show.
Speaker 5 (05:03):
You can go home. You finish your day's work. Hold on.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
I did an extra eight nine hours at work that day.
But it's okay. But it's okay, it's okay. You can
invoice them for that. But look it obviously there was
an there was a chemistry there that they said is
just so important. We don't maybe they couldn't even define
it at that time, Lucian, but they knew there was
something there and they just they had to keep you.
(05:29):
They hold your hostage. I think, great at what you do?
Can you admit as an actor you're good at what
you do?
Speaker 5 (05:35):
You know what?
Speaker 2 (05:35):
Honestly answer no question. I think, are you great at
what you do? I'm getting better as well. That's that's
the best answer.
Speaker 4 (05:42):
Remember, I think I'm getting better, And I think that
that is a testament to discipline with the work I
put in, and also growing with age.
Speaker 5 (05:50):
I think.
Speaker 4 (05:51):
I think it's just letting things go and not being
so tight about stuff.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
So how many of us listening right now, if you're
driving to work or school or wherever you're going, there's
great life A vice here, just letting go, right Yeah,
letting go and watch the great things happen, watch the miracles.
Speaker 4 (06:05):
Happen, and trusted trust, trust in the what you've done,
trust in who you are, and and I think, yes,
stand up for yourself.
Speaker 5 (06:13):
Stand up for yourself. I think it's really important.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
A lot of people may not know that David Beckham story,
how you were doing some modeling work for David Beckham,
and he's the one who thought you had something special
and started you with the acting lessons.
Speaker 5 (06:25):
You're good, You're good, You're good.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
Shoot Danielle by the way, yeah, I don't know. As
an old gig guy, hearing about modeling from David Beckham
was like in his privacy of his own.
Speaker 5 (06:35):
Room or something. No, what are you doing?
Speaker 4 (06:37):
Marks Suspences is a department store in so I got,
I got, I got asked to do this campaign. I
got stopped in the street, I was window shopping with
my mum in Manchester and then we did. We had
no idea it was with David Beckham and then all
of a sudden we get to set. It's super secretive
and then David works walks out and this is I'm
an arsenal fan as well, but this is like pete
(06:57):
David Beckham at Manchester United, like.
Speaker 5 (07:01):
He's the biggest thing.
Speaker 4 (07:02):
Well he's still a big deal, but he was the
biggest thing in the world back then, especially as a
young kid playing football growing up.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
What a connection?
Speaker 4 (07:09):
That insane and so Longsi we got really short. He
pulled me aside on set one day and said, listen, Lucy,
and you should get into acting and I was like,
what's that?
Speaker 5 (07:20):
And he was like, I'm going to figure it out.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
How can you say that you knitnact? You you just
stood there and looked like you.
Speaker 5 (07:25):
I guess, I guess. I guess there's a little bit
of a confidence and a little bit of cheekiness to it.
I guess maybe from being a kid.
Speaker 4 (07:31):
And he kind of knew my background, a little bit
of where I was from, and not many people get
that that many opportunities that coming out of Burnley. So
he got his assistant to call this actings called in Manchester.
But the real moral of the story is you just
he never he never remembers making that call. Well he's
assistant making that call. But it's just the little things
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that you can do to help someone else. And it
changed my life. Yeah, so just do the little things
in life, all right, Danielle is about to get a
hold of it here.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
If you're just turning us on Lucian Laviscount, how much
of your time do you spend telling people how to
pronounce your name? Is gun? He's wondering to know.
Speaker 4 (08:10):
Yes, No, I think he's pretty luc I e Lucy,
I think it rolls, but honestly, depending on who you are,
depending on what I've got on that day.
Speaker 5 (08:18):
I'll let it slide, all right.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
So Danielle, Danielle turned us onto Emily in Paris in
the very beginning of the series, and uh, we're still
there today. Lucian is here. Can you hand me a towel?
Mister Laviscount is feeling coffee all over.
Speaker 5 (08:39):
I'm nervous.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
You're using your own hands as your napkin. Oh, the
equipment we need, Danielle, let's do it.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
Did you bring your backgammon sat with you?
Speaker 5 (08:53):
You'll go.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
You That love is creepy. He knows that season don't.
Speaker 5 (09:00):
But it's so funny because MTV.
Speaker 4 (09:03):
The producers on Emily in Paris, and they made me
a bespoke backgammon board for my birthday a few years ago,
and honestly, it was backgammon is my love language.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
Put it that way. Oh, thank you so much. Is
that sanitizing my coffee? You're trusting hen sanitizer from a
fan I work here with smells. It's laced with something.
She's just getting you high.
Speaker 5 (09:27):
We're gonna have a good day today, guys. We're gonna
have a good day. Thank you. I appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
I'm getting dirty looks from Netflix talk about the show, notammon.
So it's no secret Emily in Paris is going to Italy.
I mean you're going yeah right?
Speaker 4 (09:43):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (09:43):
Do you speak any Italian? My Italian is not great.
Speaker 5 (09:45):
You don't need it. I get around, but I try
my best.
Speaker 4 (09:50):
It's it's it's more I'm more of a comedy act
when I when I'm when I'm around my Italian friends.
Speaker 5 (09:55):
More than anything.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
Embarrassing. Yeah, they love to take the mick out of me.
So it's it's sweet. But do you like to try?
Speaker 5 (10:02):
But?
Speaker 2 (10:02):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (10:02):
But yeah, being in Rome this year was stunning? Was
that for a month? And I'll be honest as well.
My schedule isn't as crazy as Lily is, so I
really get to explore the city.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
Okay, So here's the thing. Here's why we hate you.
Speaker 5 (10:13):
I love it, thanks man, love you.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
You are shooting. You are shooting in the most beautiful,
beautiful spots in the world. Yes, your wardrobe is outstanding.
Speaker 4 (10:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
They they light you up to make you look better
than you know. I'm not saying you don't look at
you know they do.
Speaker 5 (10:29):
They do.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
Yeah, every in every square inch of Every frame of
Emily in Paris is just stunningly beautiful. You've noticed that.
Gandhi absolutely so, Gandhi, who's here by the way.
Speaker 5 (10:40):
I see you go in.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
You know, Daniel and Gandhi and me, the only three
people you really need to know.
Speaker 5 (10:46):
I got over that house.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
So may I tell them about about Emily?
Speaker 1 (10:51):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (10:52):
The character is you, not Lily, Okay, the actor Emily.
The character she drives me insane, does she? She's without
Let's get to the bottom of this, Okay, thank you, Okay,
come on, come on. Her character is just so in
wett in this way. It's so just My anxiety level
just rises because she's always getting into trouble. She's always
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doing and saying the wrong thing, not on purpose. She's
got a heart of gold, she has, but she she's
like the elephant in the parade. It just marches along
the parade looking all regal, but leaves piles of crud
all behind on the street.
Speaker 5 (11:33):
Without even knowing it. This is wild.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
Emily causes trouble, I mean, and she gets into trouble.
Speaker 5 (11:39):
I think that's part of the world, right.
Speaker 4 (11:41):
I think Emily's got this incredible innate way of fixing
problems that she also has the innate ability to create
in such a way as well. I think that's that's
the that's the enjoyment of it. We go on this
journey with her and and and her friends and her
lovers and all these beautiful people and uh and in
these beautiful it is and yeah, things can't work out
(12:02):
in these beautiful cities, because then it would be there's
no point you were watching.
Speaker 5 (12:05):
We need the pitfalls, we need the we need the downs.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
So that's a good answer.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
Ugly guy like Gabriel and you and then this Marcello
like they're all you're all hot, like Emily.
Speaker 5 (12:18):
Oh, I think that's that's the beauty is in the
eye of the beholder.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
I got an idea.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
I get a date an ugly guy.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
I got the perfect actor, the ugly guy that Emily
can date in Italy. Scary bro, Bro, you.
Speaker 5 (12:33):
Are so symmetrical. Man, how are you gonna do my
point like that?
Speaker 2 (12:37):
No, you're looking You're looking sexy, brother, You're sexy, You're
looking sexy. God. Yeah, what are you thinking so far
about our conversation with Lucian?
Speaker 3 (12:47):
Okay, so this is a perfect time to ask this
question because you were a model first, and now you're
an actor. When I was ten years old, Yeah, well
you're working with David Beckham ten years old.
Speaker 5 (12:55):
That was the peak of my muddling career. Ten years
old me.
Speaker 3 (12:59):
Doesn't make it harder, though. If you have a modeling
background to get into acting, do actors take you seriously
or are they?
Speaker 5 (13:05):
Yeah, you got a leg up.
Speaker 3 (13:06):
Because you're good looking.
Speaker 5 (13:06):
Here at ten years.
Speaker 4 (13:07):
Old, I got I got the job because I was
I had a big afro at the time, so I
was more of a token in that sense of like
a yeah, I was more of a more of a
gambit play.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
I was an awkward kid. I was an awkward kid.
So but yeah, anyone. I think anyone can.
Speaker 5 (13:22):
Do anything right.
Speaker 4 (13:23):
I think if you put your mind to it, if
you believe in yourself, you work hard, and you don't
let the naysays get into your head. I think, why
not give it a go? I think my biggest fear
in life is to not fulfill my potential. So if
I don't do everything I can in my day to
get be better, to be better human, to be a
better friend, to be better, a better actor, and better
(13:44):
in business or whatever that is, then I'm only failing myself,
So it's one v one at the end of the day.
Speaker 3 (13:49):
So yeah, I feel like, so far you fulfilled the
potential or do you think that there's still a long
way to go?
Speaker 5 (13:54):
Very happy right now, I'm like, I take this time,
you want to take it. I don't know how you're
going to.
Speaker 4 (13:58):
Take it, but I do think that I'm only just
a step on the ladder of what i want to
do and what I want to want to achieve. Yeah,
I feel like this is just it's a really good
kind of foundation. I've been doing this for quite a
while now, but it's given me the foundations to kind
of to develop that kind of thick skin towards the
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nose and the things that come with this industry. And
now I feel like I'm stepping to this two point
zero kind of version of myself in a sense of
just growing up and understanding the world better and just
understanding people, understanding the industry a little bit better. So
I'm really excited to film for what's going to come next,
and to be able to be on a show like
Emily in Paris is a dream come true. Like we
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all work so hard in everything we do because we're
passionate about what we do, and especially when you're acting,
you do jobs that no one watches, and that's great
because you can be really bad in them and no
one will see them. But at the same time, it's
all learning and it's all growth to be able to
go and do things that people will watch because he's
a whole big workforce behind it. And I just think
(15:03):
about the boom up that has to explain to their
partners the reason why they can't be at a certain
social gathering is because they're on set for fourteen fifteen
hours on the show that people won't necessarily watch, or
a movie that people won't watch. So when people come
to me in the street and say we like the
show or can have a picture, I really think it's
a representation of everyone that puts the work in that
(15:25):
we don't get to see. So I'm gassed that people
love the show. And even if they don't, if you
don't like.
Speaker 5 (15:31):
No, no, no, I don't know. I don't know. This
is recorded, right.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
There's a lot about her acting ability making me hate her.
Speaker 5 (15:43):
That's great.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
Who's your daddy?
Speaker 4 (15:50):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (15:50):
Because he made Carrie Bradshaw so hateable also, or she
was pretty Hateable and that was a really popular show
with New York City as one of the characters. It's like,
you know the thing he likes to.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
Do talk about you. Lucien as an actor wanted to
be taken serious in any role you you set out
to do and accomplish. Let's look at have you seen Frankenstein?
Speaker 5 (16:12):
Franky Stein.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
Yes, let's talk about a physically beautiful man actor Jacob
ELORDI right, he decided he wanted to break out of
the stop looking at my perfect face and symmetry and
my body look feeling, and be an actor. He said,
(16:34):
f up my face, screw me up. He's I want
to I want people to see me as an actor
beyond my model good looks. And he did that. Yeah,
he did such a standing ovation job on that.
Speaker 5 (16:47):
And I also think he's done that in different roles
as well.
Speaker 4 (16:49):
And I think he's got incredible I think the reason
listen to the symmetry to that man's face and he's
about six ft tall and he's Swaggy's.
Speaker 2 (16:58):
Incredible an sixty seven is it? Sorry he's growing as
you speak. Wait, hold on six.
Speaker 4 (17:06):
But but yeah, I think that there there there's a
vulnerability to his acting that is is unmatched, and I
think that he's definitely a once in a generational kind
of actor in that sense that can be ugly. And
I don't think it took him to do Frankenstein necessarily
for him to really break away from being that kind
of boy next door or whatever category people wanted to
(17:29):
put him in.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
But what do you want to be? But I remember
I want to be? Yeah, what what did you want
to do?
Speaker 5 (17:37):
Do you do?
Speaker 2 (17:37):
You? Are you already thinking about what is that thing
I can do? That totally makes everyone go, WHOA, let's lose. Yeah,
that's not him. He's a different guy now. He's great.
Speaker 4 (17:46):
I think for me, there's a few things that I'd
love to get into. I think coming from the UK,
I think James Bond is always that kind of that
role that everyone.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
Who Chase one, who do we vote for? Jamesone? This
guy right here, I mean, I mean, no one's bro's
your neighbors on the list.
Speaker 5 (18:01):
It's on the list. I like that. I like that.
Speaker 4 (18:03):
I like that anyone else out there put it on
the list. Again, people keep it high on the list.
But a plan ject like that would be fantastic. But
also as well, I think that's the beautiful thing about
this industry. You don't know what people are writing, you
don't know what people are creating, you don't know what's
going to come around the corner. I just want to
work with great people. I just want to work with
great people with it be great directors, great actors, great crew,
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and in some cool locations that would be great as well.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
But I don't know.
Speaker 4 (18:28):
I make the most out of it. I'm not going
to be around long, so let's make the most out
of And.
Speaker 2 (18:34):
Are you dying? What's going on?
Speaker 5 (18:35):
We're all dying.
Speaker 4 (18:37):
I don't want to say that first thing in the morning,
but yeah, so make the most out of the day.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
So working with great people and great places makes sure
it makes you great.
Speaker 4 (18:44):
Oh gosh, yeah, I think that that's that's definitely a plus.
I think when you're working with great directors on a
great set and with great actors, your levels just get
they move, they move, they move, they move into different
stratospheres and you evolve. And I think for me, I've
I've kind of I've grown up doing martial arts and
I started getting into car racing recently.
Speaker 5 (19:02):
So I go follow the full.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
In Manhattan and with a great place to race a car.
I know, I know, I know.
Speaker 4 (19:07):
No, you know what it's like, Dutchems. You gotta just
skip in between the taxis. But but yeah, so this this,
I don't know. I don't want to put myself in
a box at tool and I want to see what
the world, yes, see what comes my way. I'm quite
happy in my lane, not that there's a speed limit
on it. But wherever my path goes, my path will go.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
So we are talking, of course, to Lucy and Leviscount,
who is in season five as Alfie in Emily in Paris,
which is debuting December eighteenth on Netflix. I don't know,
we gotta take a break. This guy's having he's having
a cornario here. But I will say that every night
Daniel would go home and binge a little more of
Emily in Paris, and all of these these seasons, she
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would come in the next day. You'll pay me up
on this gun. She would come in the next day going,
oh my god, it you. She said, I don't know
what episode you're wrong, but I saw this episode in
and she was always the one in this room that
glowed every single time she came in.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
After she saw and I'm always a hashtag team outfie.
Speaker 5 (20:03):
Just so you know, listen, listen, we're going out for
dinner tonight. We go for dinner tonight. We're going for
dinner tonight.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
Get out of here.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
Hey, Aston Villa fan, and you are number one right now,
so I'm in third place, so we're gonna fight.
Speaker 5 (20:15):
That's all right. That's why we all go to the
Champions League. That's all mys. That's not my, that's all
I'm mys.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
Thank you for coming in spending time with Thank you.
You know you'll probably never ever step from this place,
because this is a it's a hot seat, this is this.
Speaker 4 (20:28):
Is the I've got my I got my fluffy third
jacket on for the for the winter cold outside, and
I feel pretty chill.
Speaker 5 (20:33):
So thank you for being so lovely.
Speaker 2 (20:35):
Lucy and Levitsk And of course season five, he's still there.
He won't leave. They keep it cooking. I don't think
they pay him anymore. He just shows up. He's like,
they're like, there's that Lucy going again. I do it
for free. I do it for free. Don't say that
they'll they'll take you up on that.
Speaker 5 (20:49):
You will have to come back to that.
Speaker 2 (20:51):
Emily in Paris, Emily and Paris, debuting, of course, season
five on December eighteenth on Netflix. We love it that
you came in Lucy and have a beautiful days.
Speaker 5 (20:59):
Actually so much guy.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
Thank you, see, thank you, thank you for having it
Live from the Mercedes Benz Interview Lounge.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Great time with Dan Harris. Dan will be back.
Speaker 1 (00:09):
That voice, man, yeah, that voice really meditates you.
Speaker 3 (00:14):
Right, which came first, the meditation or the voice does?
Speaker 2 (00:16):
He does have that neck nuts the ball Ballsy voices.
Is Lucy in here, Lucy paging Lucy on a table
for one Lucian there he is Lucy and Elvis. I'm
sorry I didn't get a chance to say hi, but
we're already on and so we're acting. I have that
(00:37):
same coat. I have the same exact one. I'm not
gonna use brand names on the air because the fire
me that's so funny.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
I have that hat.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
We're here to sell the bakay Lucy and Levis count
is here. And of course season five of Emily with
Paris is breaking when in six days, seven days, eight days,
eight days.
Speaker 4 (00:57):
Eighteenth eighteenth to day seven but get ready it's crazy.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
Well, uh, we're big fans.
Speaker 5 (01:02):
I appreciate that, Thank you so much.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
And you were, of course you merged in season two
and Lucien, of course, Alfie was only going to be
there for what season?
Speaker 5 (01:13):
Maybe two episodes?
Speaker 2 (01:15):
Two episodes? Yeah, two episodes? So what did you do?
Do you got new photos on someone or something?
Speaker 4 (01:20):
Listen, listen, listen. It doesn't work like that, not in
my world. Not in my world. Maybe radio is different,
but exactly.
Speaker 5 (01:26):
Yeahs fired over here were morning man.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
You're the bottom feeders of the editnet. You said it, man,
I don't believe that at all.
Speaker 5 (01:33):
By the way, by the way, can I just.
Speaker 4 (01:35):
Say, yeah, I love this show more than anything, and
I've got this whole pressum to do and I'm gassed
to be here. So thank you so much for having me.
I'm never this excited early in the morning, So yeah,
thank you.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
Okay, well let's do a wrap up. Let's do it
around it. Yeah, so let's go around. I'm gonna go
back to that question I was about to ask about. Yes,
uh you are you're from Antiga originally, Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4 (01:55):
Antiga Burnley. My father' from Antiga. I grew up in Burnley,
north of England, outside Manchester. We kind of get that.
You guys get the southern hospitality. We get like the
northern hospitality. So yeah, it's a little bit of a
switch around, not a reach around to switch around for us,
but uh but yeah, and and yeah, we like to
have fun in the north of England.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
Well, okay, so as far as your character, Alfhie goes yes,
and so you're not character, you realize an actor from
Antigua to London, but you're a Londoner in Paris as
a character, right, and then you're going to Italy this season.
Speaker 5 (02:34):
I I don't know what I can say, but we
we do.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
We do a little bit of a it's a little
bit of a dance between Italy. Your attorney, you keep
looking at her.
Speaker 5 (02:44):
Well, this is Netflix over here, so I don't want
to get soon. I listen.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
If we are able to have a season six, I'd
love to come back.
Speaker 5 (02:51):
So I'm gonna put my best foot forward.
Speaker 4 (02:54):
Okay, but but yeah, it's it's a it's a it's
a beautiful dance between Italy and Paris this season.
Speaker 5 (02:58):
Put it that way.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
Let net I was about to spend eighty billion dollars
in cash on another deal. They're running out of money
over there, left and right.
Speaker 5 (03:04):
Listen, man, as long as I'm good, I'm good. I'm happy.
I'm happy.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
Okay, so great to work with Alphie. Was supposed to
be two episodes and then something happened. I mean, something
happened between you and the writers, the producers, the directors.
Something happened where they said, this actor Lucien and his
character Alfie is very important for the future of this franchise.
(03:28):
What was it?
Speaker 5 (03:30):
Honestly, I have no idea, I'll be honest. Okay.
Speaker 4 (03:34):
So I got to I got to Paris. It was
my first time in Paris. I auditioned. Actually, I sent
a self tape from New York. I was in New York,
sent a cel tape. I got on a zoom call
the day after with Darren Star, the creator, and Lillie Collins,
and the whole time on the zoom call, I had
these thirteen pages of dialogue to run through, and all
(03:54):
I was thinking about was this dialogue. We spoke for
forty five minutes. The whole time, I have no idea
what we spoke about, because I was just trying to
remember my lines. And then the next day I got
a call saying, you go into Paris. And this was
the time we had a quarantine, and it was my
first time in Paris. So I did twelve days in
a hotel room by myself, panicking, going on this roller
(04:15):
coaster emotionally about what I'm going to do when I
turn up to set, and then the last few hours
of my quarantine, I was just like, just say the lines,
just to enjoy it, make everyone's life easy and enjoy yourself.
And I had a great time. Like we kicked off
really well. The cast was amazing. I've got to gotta
throw a shout out to Lily as well. I think
(04:36):
Lily really had my back on it. And yeah, I
wrapped on the second episode I was supposed to shoot
and then Darren said, Lucien came to set. He said,
You're not going anywhere. So I sat around. I think
that's probably about ten am in the morning. I sat
around on set at about seven pm and then Darren
came over to me and said, what are you doing here?
(04:56):
And he said, well, I said, you told me not
to leave. He told me I'm not going anywhere. He said, no, no, no,
I mean you're not leaving the show.
Speaker 5 (05:03):
You can go home. You finish your day's work. Hold on.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
I did an extra eight nine hours at work that day.
But it's okay. But it's okay, it's okay. You can
invoice them for that. But look it obviously there was
an there was a chemistry there that they said is
just so important. We don't maybe they couldn't even define
it at that time, Lucian, but they knew there was
something there and they just they had to keep you.
(05:29):
They hold your hostage. I think, great at what you do?
Can you admit as an actor you're good at what
you do?
Speaker 5 (05:35):
You know what?
Speaker 2 (05:35):
Honestly answer no question. I think, are you great at
what you do? I'm getting better as well. That's that's
the best answer.
Speaker 4 (05:42):
Remember, I think I'm getting better, And I think that
that is a testament to discipline with the work I
put in, and also growing with age.
Speaker 5 (05:50):
I think.
Speaker 4 (05:51):
I think it's just letting things go and not being
so tight about stuff.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
So how many of us listening right now, if you're
driving to work or school or wherever you're going, there's
great life A vice here, just letting go, right Yeah,
letting go and watch the great things happen, watch the miracles.
Speaker 4 (06:05):
Happen, and trusted trust, trust in the what you've done,
trust in who you are, and and I think, yes,
stand up for yourself.
Speaker 5 (06:13):
Stand up for yourself. I think it's really important.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
A lot of people may not know that David Beckham story,
how you were doing some modeling work for David Beckham,
and he's the one who thought you had something special
and started you with the acting lessons.
Speaker 5 (06:25):
You're good, You're good, You're good.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
Shoot Danielle by the way, yeah, I don't know. As
an old gig guy, hearing about modeling from David Beckham
was like in his privacy of his own.
Speaker 5 (06:35):
Room or something. No, what are you doing?
Speaker 4 (06:37):
Marks Suspences is a department store in so I got,
I got, I got asked to do this campaign. I
got stopped in the street, I was window shopping with
my mum in Manchester and then we did. We had
no idea it was with David Beckham and then all
of a sudden we get to set. It's super secretive
and then David works walks out and this is I'm
an arsenal fan as well, but this is like pete
(06:57):
David Beckham at Manchester United, like.
Speaker 5 (07:01):
He's the biggest thing.
Speaker 4 (07:02):
Well he's still a big deal, but he was the
biggest thing in the world back then, especially as a
young kid playing football growing up.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
What a connection?
Speaker 4 (07:09):
That insane and so Longsi we got really short. He
pulled me aside on set one day and said, listen, Lucy,
and you should get into acting and I was like,
what's that?
Speaker 5 (07:20):
And he was like, I'm going to figure it out.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
How can you say that you knitnact? You you just
stood there and looked like you.
Speaker 5 (07:25):
I guess, I guess. I guess there's a little bit
of a confidence and a little bit of cheekiness to it.
I guess maybe from being a kid.
Speaker 4 (07:31):
And he kind of knew my background, a little bit
of where I was from, and not many people get
that that many opportunities that coming out of Burnley. So
he got his assistant to call this actings called in Manchester.
But the real moral of the story is you just
he never he never remembers making that call. Well he's
assistant making that call. But it's just the little things
(07:53):
that you can do to help someone else. And it
changed my life. Yeah, so just do the little things
in life, all right, Danielle is about to get a
hold of it here.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
If you're just turning us on Lucian Laviscount, how much
of your time do you spend telling people how to
pronounce your name? Is gun? He's wondering to know.
Speaker 4 (08:10):
Yes, No, I think he's pretty luc I e Lucy,
I think it rolls, but honestly, depending on who you are,
depending on what I've got on that day.
Speaker 5 (08:18):
I'll let it slide, all right.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
So Danielle, Danielle turned us onto Emily in Paris in
the very beginning of the series, and uh, we're still
there today. Lucian is here. Can you hand me a towel?
Mister Laviscount is feeling coffee all over.
Speaker 5 (08:39):
I'm nervous.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
You're using your own hands as your napkin. Oh, the
equipment we need, Danielle, let's do it.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
Did you bring your backgammon sat with you?
Speaker 5 (08:53):
You'll go.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
You That love is creepy. He knows that season don't.
Speaker 5 (09:00):
But it's so funny because MTV.
Speaker 4 (09:03):
The producers on Emily in Paris, and they made me
a bespoke backgammon board for my birthday a few years ago,
and honestly, it was backgammon is my love language.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
Put it that way. Oh, thank you so much. Is
that sanitizing my coffee? You're trusting hen sanitizer from a
fan I work here with smells. It's laced with something.
She's just getting you high.
Speaker 5 (09:27):
We're gonna have a good day today, guys. We're gonna
have a good day. Thank you. I appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
I'm getting dirty looks from Netflix talk about the show, notammon.
So it's no secret Emily in Paris is going to Italy.
I mean you're going yeah right?
Speaker 4 (09:43):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (09:43):
Do you speak any Italian? My Italian is not great.
Speaker 5 (09:45):
You don't need it. I get around, but I try
my best.
Speaker 4 (09:50):
It's it's it's more I'm more of a comedy act
when I when I'm when I'm around my Italian friends.
Speaker 5 (09:55):
More than anything.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
Embarrassing. Yeah, they love to take the mick out of me.
So it's it's sweet. But do you like to try?
Speaker 5 (10:02):
But?
Speaker 2 (10:02):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (10:02):
But yeah, being in Rome this year was stunning? Was
that for a month? And I'll be honest as well.
My schedule isn't as crazy as Lily is, so I
really get to explore the city.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
Okay, So here's the thing. Here's why we hate you.
Speaker 5 (10:13):
I love it, thanks man, love you.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
You are shooting. You are shooting in the most beautiful,
beautiful spots in the world. Yes, your wardrobe is outstanding.
Speaker 4 (10:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
They they light you up to make you look better
than you know. I'm not saying you don't look at
you know they do.
Speaker 5 (10:29):
They do.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
Yeah, every in every square inch of Every frame of
Emily in Paris is just stunningly beautiful. You've noticed that.
Gandhi absolutely so, Gandhi, who's here by the way.
Speaker 5 (10:40):
I see you go in.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
You know, Daniel and Gandhi and me, the only three
people you really need to know.
Speaker 5 (10:46):
I got over that house.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
So may I tell them about about Emily?
Speaker 1 (10:51):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (10:52):
The character is you, not Lily, Okay, the actor Emily.
The character she drives me insane, does she? She's without
Let's get to the bottom of this, Okay, thank you, Okay,
come on, come on. Her character is just so in
wett in this way. It's so just My anxiety level
just rises because she's always getting into trouble. She's always
(11:15):
doing and saying the wrong thing, not on purpose. She's
got a heart of gold, she has, but she she's
like the elephant in the parade. It just marches along
the parade looking all regal, but leaves piles of crud
all behind on the street.
Speaker 5 (11:33):
Without even knowing it. This is wild.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
Emily causes trouble, I mean, and she gets into trouble.
Speaker 5 (11:39):
I think that's part of the world, right.
Speaker 4 (11:41):
I think Emily's got this incredible innate way of fixing
problems that she also has the innate ability to create
in such a way as well. I think that's that's
the that's the enjoyment of it. We go on this
journey with her and and and her friends and her
lovers and all these beautiful people and uh and in
these beautiful it is and yeah, things can't work out
(12:02):
in these beautiful cities, because then it would be there's
no point you were watching.
Speaker 5 (12:05):
We need the pitfalls, we need the we need the downs.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
So that's a good answer.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
Ugly guy like Gabriel and you and then this Marcello
like they're all you're all hot, like Emily.
Speaker 5 (12:18):
Oh, I think that's that's the beauty is in the
eye of the beholder.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
I got an idea.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
I get a date an ugly guy.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
I got the perfect actor, the ugly guy that Emily
can date in Italy. Scary bro, Bro, you.
Speaker 5 (12:33):
Are so symmetrical. Man, how are you gonna do my
point like that?
Speaker 2 (12:37):
No, you're looking You're looking sexy, brother, You're sexy, You're
looking sexy. God. Yeah, what are you thinking so far
about our conversation with Lucian?
Speaker 3 (12:47):
Okay, so this is a perfect time to ask this
question because you were a model first, and now you're
an actor. When I was ten years old, Yeah, well
you're working with David Beckham ten years old.
Speaker 5 (12:55):
That was the peak of my muddling career. Ten years
old me.
Speaker 3 (12:59):
Doesn't make it harder, though. If you have a modeling
background to get into acting, do actors take you seriously
or are they?
Speaker 5 (13:05):
Yeah, you got a leg up.
Speaker 3 (13:06):
Because you're good looking.
Speaker 5 (13:06):
Here at ten years.
Speaker 4 (13:07):
Old, I got I got the job because I was
I had a big afro at the time, so I
was more of a token in that sense of like
a yeah, I was more of a more of a
gambit play.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
I was an awkward kid. I was an awkward kid.
So but yeah, anyone. I think anyone can.
Speaker 5 (13:22):
Do anything right.
Speaker 4 (13:23):
I think if you put your mind to it, if
you believe in yourself, you work hard, and you don't
let the naysays get into your head. I think, why
not give it a go? I think my biggest fear
in life is to not fulfill my potential. So if
I don't do everything I can in my day to
get be better, to be better human, to be a
better friend, to be better, a better actor, and better
(13:44):
in business or whatever that is, then I'm only failing myself,
So it's one v one at the end of the day.
Speaker 3 (13:49):
So yeah, I feel like, so far you fulfilled the
potential or do you think that there's still a long
way to go?
Speaker 5 (13:54):
Very happy right now, I'm like, I take this time,
you want to take it. I don't know how you're
going to.
Speaker 4 (13:58):
Take it, but I do think that I'm only just
a step on the ladder of what i want to
do and what I want to want to achieve. Yeah,
I feel like this is just it's a really good
kind of foundation. I've been doing this for quite a
while now, but it's given me the foundations to kind
of to develop that kind of thick skin towards the
(14:18):
nose and the things that come with this industry. And
now I feel like I'm stepping to this two point
zero kind of version of myself in a sense of
just growing up and understanding the world better and just
understanding people, understanding the industry a little bit better. So
I'm really excited to film for what's going to come next,
and to be able to be on a show like
Emily in Paris is a dream come true. Like we
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all work so hard in everything we do because we're
passionate about what we do, and especially when you're acting,
you do jobs that no one watches, and that's great
because you can be really bad in them and no
one will see them. But at the same time, it's
all learning and it's all growth to be able to
go and do things that people will watch because he's
a whole big workforce behind it. And I just think
(15:03):
about the boom up that has to explain to their
partners the reason why they can't be at a certain
social gathering is because they're on set for fourteen fifteen
hours on the show that people won't necessarily watch, or
a movie that people won't watch. So when people come
to me in the street and say we like the
show or can have a picture, I really think it's
a representation of everyone that puts the work in that
(15:25):
we don't get to see. So I'm gassed that people
love the show. And even if they don't, if you
don't like.
Speaker 5 (15:31):
No, no, no, I don't know. I don't know. This
is recorded, right.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
There's a lot about her acting ability making me hate her.
Speaker 5 (15:43):
That's great.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
Who's your daddy?
Speaker 4 (15:50):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (15:50):
Because he made Carrie Bradshaw so hateable also, or she
was pretty Hateable and that was a really popular show
with New York City as one of the characters. It's like,
you know the thing he likes to.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
Do talk about you. Lucien as an actor wanted to
be taken serious in any role you you set out
to do and accomplish. Let's look at have you seen Frankenstein?
Speaker 5 (16:12):
Franky Stein.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
Yes, let's talk about a physically beautiful man actor Jacob
ELORDI right, he decided he wanted to break out of
the stop looking at my perfect face and symmetry and
my body look feeling, and be an actor. He said,
(16:34):
f up my face, screw me up. He's I want
to I want people to see me as an actor
beyond my model good looks. And he did that. Yeah,
he did such a standing ovation job on that.
Speaker 5 (16:47):
And I also think he's done that in different roles
as well.
Speaker 4 (16:49):
And I think he's got incredible I think the reason
listen to the symmetry to that man's face and he's
about six ft tall and he's Swaggy's.
Speaker 2 (16:58):
Incredible an sixty seven is it? Sorry he's growing as
you speak. Wait, hold on six.
Speaker 4 (17:06):
But but yeah, I think that there there there's a
vulnerability to his acting that is is unmatched, and I
think that he's definitely a once in a generational kind
of actor in that sense that can be ugly. And
I don't think it took him to do Frankenstein necessarily
for him to really break away from being that kind
of boy next door or whatever category people wanted to
(17:29):
put him in.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
But what do you want to be? But I remember
I want to be? Yeah, what what did you want
to do?
Speaker 5 (17:37):
Do you do?
Speaker 2 (17:37):
You? Are you already thinking about what is that thing
I can do? That totally makes everyone go, WHOA, let's lose. Yeah,
that's not him. He's a different guy now. He's great.
Speaker 4 (17:46):
I think for me, there's a few things that I'd
love to get into. I think coming from the UK,
I think James Bond is always that kind of that
role that everyone.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
Who Chase one, who do we vote for? Jamesone? This
guy right here, I mean, I mean, no one's bro's
your neighbors on the list.
Speaker 5 (18:01):
It's on the list. I like that. I like that.
Speaker 4 (18:03):
I like that anyone else out there put it on
the list. Again, people keep it high on the list.
But a plan ject like that would be fantastic. But
also as well, I think that's the beautiful thing about
this industry. You don't know what people are writing, you
don't know what people are creating, you don't know what's
going to come around the corner. I just want to
work with great people. I just want to work with
great people with it be great directors, great actors, great crew,
(18:24):
and in some cool locations that would be great as well.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
But I don't know.
Speaker 4 (18:28):
I make the most out of it. I'm not going
to be around long, so let's make the most out
of And.
Speaker 2 (18:34):
Are you dying? What's going on?
Speaker 5 (18:35):
We're all dying.
Speaker 4 (18:37):
I don't want to say that first thing in the morning,
but yeah, so make the most out of the day.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
So working with great people and great places makes sure
it makes you great.
Speaker 4 (18:44):
Oh gosh, yeah, I think that that's that's definitely a plus.
I think when you're working with great directors on a
great set and with great actors, your levels just get
they move, they move, they move, they move into different
stratospheres and you evolve. And I think for me, I've
I've kind of I've grown up doing martial arts and
I started getting into car racing recently.
Speaker 5 (19:02):
So I go follow the full.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
In Manhattan and with a great place to race a car.
I know, I know, I know.
Speaker 4 (19:07):
No, you know what it's like, Dutchems. You gotta just
skip in between the taxis. But but yeah, so this this,
I don't know. I don't want to put myself in
a box at tool and I want to see what
the world, yes, see what comes my way. I'm quite
happy in my lane, not that there's a speed limit
on it. But wherever my path goes, my path will go.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
So we are talking, of course, to Lucy and Leviscount,
who is in season five as Alfie in Emily in Paris,
which is debuting December eighteenth on Netflix. I don't know,
we gotta take a break. This guy's having he's having
a cornario here. But I will say that every night
Daniel would go home and binge a little more of
Emily in Paris, and all of these these seasons, she
(19:48):
would come in the next day. You'll pay me up
on this gun. She would come in the next day going,
oh my god, it you. She said, I don't know
what episode you're wrong, but I saw this episode in
and she was always the one in this room that
glowed every single time she came in.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
After she saw and I'm always a hashtag team outfie.
Speaker 5 (20:03):
Just so you know, listen, listen, we're going out for
dinner tonight. We go for dinner tonight. We're going for
dinner tonight.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
Get out of here.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
Hey, Aston Villa fan, and you are number one right now,
so I'm in third place, so we're gonna fight.
Speaker 5 (20:15):
That's all right. That's why we all go to the
Champions League. That's all mys. That's not my, that's all
I'm mys.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
Thank you for coming in spending time with Thank you.
You know you'll probably never ever step from this place,
because this is a it's a hot seat, this is this.
Speaker 4 (20:28):
Is the I've got my I got my fluffy third
jacket on for the for the winter cold outside, and
I feel pretty chill.
Speaker 5 (20:33):
So thank you for being so lovely.
Speaker 2 (20:35):
Lucy and Levitsk And of course season five, he's still there.
He won't leave. They keep it cooking. I don't think
they pay him anymore. He just shows up. He's like,
they're like, there's that Lucy going again. I do it
for free. I do it for free. Don't say that
they'll they'll take you up on that.
Speaker 5 (20:49):
You will have to come back to that.
Speaker 2 (20:51):
Emily in Paris, Emily and Paris, debuting, of course, season
five on December eighteenth on Netflix. We love it that
you came in Lucy and have a beautiful days.
Speaker 5 (20:59):
Actually so much guy.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
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