“You live to work. We work for a living.” What’s wrong with Emily Cooper?

On March 18, Lily Collins, star of the hit TV series Emily in Paris, celebrates her birthday. The actor is 34 years old.

Recall that this is a series written by Darren Star (creator of Sex and the City) about a young American woman named Emily Cooper who works as a marketer and goes on a one-year business trip to Paris. There she encounters a new reality: the pace of life, views and attitudes of the French to work are different from those Emily is used to. Plus, he doesn’t fit right into the team and is kind of an outcast at first. Cooper is open, naive and has no problems with communication, so the girl soon proves her professionalism to her colleagues and brings success to the company. However, his personal life is suffering.

The role of Emily Cooper became the hallmark of Lily, and she fell in love with a wide audience, although it caused a lot of controversy.

We asked the neuropsychologist-rehabilitologist Natalya Zhukova, with more than 13 years of experience, the founder and rector of the University of Modern Psychology, to analyze the image of the heroine. And that’s what happened.

Natalya Zhukova, psychologist

“In many ways, Emily presents herself as an interdependent person – after all, such a heroine that it is easier for the audience to recognize herself. She is completely childish in the first season: she does not know how to accept feedback, does not actively try to communicate with her colleagues. At the same time, by the will of the screenwriters, the ideas of the hero, even the craziest ones, almost always “shoot” and get away with everything (this rarely happens in life). As the story progresses, Emily becomes more and more integrated into Paris, which is good – it means she knows how to fit in and adapt to the context.

But until the final season, Emily is interdependent: unsure of her decisions, hesitating, and trying to please everyone at once. For example, he can’t choose who to work with: the charismatic Frenchwoman Sylvie or her American boss Madeleine. She still can’t figure out how to solve the love triangle (or rather the square) between herself, Gabriel, Alfie and Camille. It is like everything else in life: the hero is clearly unaware of his desires. Hence the sheer confusion in personal and business relationships.

What can you learn from Emily?

stay yourself Whatever happens, be true to your own opinions, don’t let the opinions of others influence your life. Don’t be afraid of the inevitable mistakes and remember that they are the way to success.

Don’t make empty promises. In the second season of the show, we see a situation in which Emily has agreed to take an oath that neither of them will have an affair with Gabriel, in hopes of maintaining her friendship with Camille. The hero suppresses his feelings for the young man with all his might, but still, knowing in advance that he will not be able to keep this promise, he vows not to mess with him. The result is pain and disappointment.

You mustn’t lie forever. Emily carefully hides her relationship with Gabriel from Camille (his girlfriend and Emily’s girlfriend). All of this turns against the heroine, as she turns into a snowball of lies over time and suddenly opens up. This case demonstrates that an inappropriate truth is better than a complex lie.