Emily In Paris’ Lily Collins reunites with ‘soul sister’ and Ashley Park as she supports her co-star star during her West End debut in Barcelona
Lily Collins reunited with her ‘soul sister’ Ashley Park as she showed her support for the actress by attending her West End production Barcelona on Tuesday evening.
The actresses, who both star in Netflix hit Emily In Paris, couldn’t contain their smiles as they posed for an Instagram photo outside the Duke of York’s Theater in London.
Lily and Ashley, who play best friends Emily Cooper and Mindy Chen in the Netflix series, were seen cuddling in the street before Ashley lifted Lily into the air.
On the night out, Lily, 35, cut a demure figure in a brown jumper, which she teamed with blue jeans and trainers.
The Love Rosie star let loose her long brunette locks and wore minimal make-up, wrapping up warm in a navy blue scarf and long wash coat.
Meanwhile, Ashley, 33, looked stylish in a white shirt which she teamed with a long white and black coat and sky-high boots.
Lily Collins reunited with ‘soul sister’ Ashley Park as she showed her support for the actress by attending her West End production in Barcelona on Tuesday night
The Emily In Paris stars couldn’t contain their smiles as they posed for a sweet Instagram photo outside the Duke of York’s Theater in London
The stars were joined by co-star and Ashley’s boyfriend Paul Forman, 30, who plays Nicolas de Leon in the Netflix show, as they posed for a selfie backstage with Lily.
Lily looked glamorous in her sequin costume as she rocked a full face of makeup and a flowing long blonde wig.
She wrote, “When your work friend and your soul sister come and cheer you on at your other job. I love you endlessly @ashleyparklady. I learned from the best…’
Ashley and Paul have a romantic storyline on the show and it plays out seamlessly off-screen.
It comes after Lily was supported by Sir Ian McKellen last week as the acting legend posed for a photo with the leading star backstage.
Lily smiled from ear to ear next to the Lord Of The Rings icon, 85, and beamed about the ‘dignified moment’, revealing the actor had made his West End debut at the same Duke Of York’s Theater 60 years earlier.
‘THE one and only @ianmckellen came to @barcelonatheplay tonight. He had his West End stage debut here at @dukeofyorksldn in 1964 on the very same stage where I have mine now.
‘I still can’t believe it. A truly photo-worthy moment that I will never forget…’ she finished.
The actresses were joined by co-star and Ashley’s boyfriend Paul Forman, 30, who plays Nicolas de Leon in the Netflix show, as they posed for a selfie backstage with Lily
She wrote, “When your best friend and soul sister comes to cheer you on at your other job. I love you endlessly @ashleyparklady. I learned from the best…’
The actresses play best friends Emily Cooper (Lily right) and Mindy Chen (Ashley left) in the Netflix series
Ashley and Paul have a romantic storyline on the show and it plays out seamlessly off-screen
In the second shot, the Hobbit star smiled brightly next to Emily and her husband, filmmaker Charlie McDowell, 41.
Lily stars as real estate agent Irene with Money Heist sensation Alvaro Morte, who plays Manuel – a “mysterious Spanish man who hates Americans.”
The pair will star in Bess Wohl’s West End show Barcelona at the Duke of York’s Theater in London for twelve weeks.
The actress and Alvaro, 49, joined Cat Deeley and Dermot O’Leary on the ITV sofa last month, where they discussed their West End debuts.
Giving an overview of the piece, Lily said: ‘A young woman goes to Barcelona on a stag weekend and meets a Spanish man in a bar and they go home together.
‘It takes you on a wild ride with things you don’t expect. Even things we didn’t expect, we encounter on stage every night.’
Alvaro added, “It’s a while that they spend together in his apartment and you see them discovering things about each other and also about themselves.”
The performances started on October 21 and run until January 11, 2025, with tickets currently available for £20 to £195.
Cat asked on behalf of all Emily In Paris fans if there are any plans to bring the show to London, to which Lily excitedly replied: “I feel like I’ve become the voice of whoever is pitching this because I’d like Emily comes to London. London. I’m like “Just take the Eurostar!”.
Beaming Lily Collins, 35, posed backstage alongside Ian McKellen, 85, as the acting legend showed support during her West End debut in Barcelona
In the second shot, the Hobbit star smiled brightly next to Emily and her husband, filmmaker Charlie McDowell, 41
Lily stars as real estate agent Irene with Money Heist sensation Alvaro Morte, who plays Manuel – a ‘mysterious Spanish man who hates Americans’ in Bess Wohl’s Barcelona
Giving an overview of the play, Lily said: ‘A young woman goes to Barcelona on a stag weekend and meets a Spanish man in a bar and they go home together’
“There are so many great monuments and things she should do here.”
Lily, who has been married to Charlie for three years, previously revealed she would ‘love to start a family’ with Charlie.
Talk to Harper’s Bazaar she said, ‘Of course I would like to have a family. So there’s the personal, there’s the work, there’s the combination of the two… It’s always a juggling act, but I want it to be that way – I want to be able to do all the things that I like. The most important thing is to figure out what makes sense for us.”
She also joked that there were times when she forgot her now husband Charlie was her fiancé while working together on the set of 2021 Windfall.
The actress played the wife of a wealthy CEO, with the couple coming to their vacation home to discover a burglar.
Of working with Charlie, she said: “It was quite seamless because Charlie treated the entire cast the same way – he is essentially an actor’s director. There were times when I forgot he was my fiancé because we had such a creative rapport.”