Director Andy Fleming Gave Us a Peek at the Emily in Paris Set

12 p.m. Since the French “don’t believe in snacking between meals,” says Andy, there’s no craft services on set. And on this particular morning, “I was getting kind of hangry,” he admits. “And somebody sensed the dip in my mood and brought me a sandwich and it was salmon and arugula and it was really f–king delicious. And then I felt better.”

Which is good as the next scene between Lily and Ashley Park (Emily’s BFF Mindy) requires some emotional fortitude. Moving across the street to the Palais-Royal Garden, they shoot on the exact bench where the two had met in the pilot. “I was looking at the shots from the first scene that we did there and trying to kind of emulate them for this episode because there’s kind of a big turning point in this scene,” he teases. 

But mostly he was trying to keep it together. “We hadn’t shot there in a long time,” he explains, “and we all got kind of emotional just because, you know, so much time had passed.” In the moment, it’s hard not to reflect on the time he met up with Lily last year—one of his first social interactions after months of isolation—”and we were like, ‘Are we ever going to make movies again? How do we do it? Will there be a vaccine?'”