Bravo has played Gabriel (a.k.a. the hot chef) on all four seasons of Emily in Paris, which was created by Sex and the City exec Darren Star. Gabriel is one of the on-off love interests of the titular Emily (Lily Collins) when she relocates from Chicago to Paris for work. At the end of season 4, Emily temporarily moved to Rome to head the new Italian division of her luxury marketing agency — with new love interest Marcello (Eugenio Franceschini) by her side.

“I had lunch with Darren a few days back, and he told me a bit without telling me too much,” Bravo quipped on Thursday. “I think fans are going to lose it. It’s the craziest one so far.”

While the French actor teased his excitement to return to Emily in Paris, he played coy when Parade asked whether he’d have any special set visitors.

“Will Shailene [Woodley] be joining you on set at all?” the reporter asked, referring to the recent speculation that the 33-year-old actress is seeing Bravo romantically. (Neither Woodley nor Bravo have addressed the rumors, though Bravo told People on Thursday that he was “really happy.”)

With a laugh, Bravo replied, “Who? I don’t know what you’re talking about.”

While Bravo’s Gabriel has been a fan-favorite character on the Netflix hit, the actor hasn’t always felt the same.

Life is short. It takes five months to shoot this series. Do I want to sacrifice them by telling something that does not stimulate me?” Bravo told France’s Le Figaro newspaper in October 2024, hinting he was mulling whether to return for season 5. “I do not want to be a part of a cog that does not tend to take the intelligence of viewers into consideration.”

Bravo stressed at the time that he wanted to see Gabriel have more “panache.”

” I don’t really have any freedom,” he stated. “And as people are starting to give it to me elsewhere, I am getting a taste for it.”

That same month, Bravo told IndieWire that he had grown “apart” from the character.

“The ‘sexy chef’ was very much part of me in season 1 and we grew apart season after season because of the choices he makes and because of the direction they make him take,” Bravo explained in October 2024. “I’ve never been so far away from him.”