One more controversy. Already criticized by fans for its succession of shots, deemed unrealistic, the series Emily In Paris has just been a new enemy a little surprising … since it is Oleksandr Tkachenko, the Ukrainian Minister of Culture.
In question, the character played by the actress Daria Panchenko, “Petra”. During one episode, the actress trains Emily, played by Lily Collins, in a shopping spree at the Samaritaine, Mecca of French luxury. Arriving at the scene, “Petra” goes to the store’s booths to try on several items of clothing. That’s when she says to Emily: “I love free!”, and offers to run away with hat, bag and coat.
Stunned by this scene, Emily try to convince her to return the articles and launches out in a cliché replica of which the series has the secret: “You do not know what happens to Jean Valjean when he steals with the baton? You did not see Wretched ? “She exclaims before falling out, obviously for good, with her new friend she met in French class.
“The cartoonish image of this Ukrainian woman is unacceptable”
A scene not at all to the liking of the Ukrainians. Oleksandr Tkachenko, the Ukrainian Minister of Culture, denounced the character played by Daria Panchenko. “The cartoonish image of this Ukrainian woman is unacceptable. It’s insulting. Is this how Ukrainians are viewed abroad? “He wrote to Netflix in a letter leaked to the Telegram network.” In the 1990s and 2000s, Ukrainians were most often gangsters in movies. Over time it has changed, but not in this specific case”, He added.
A stance that forced Netflix to react according to the minister. “We agreed that in 2022, we would keep in close contact to avoid such cases“, he wrote, before specifying that the streaming platform thanked him for his comments.
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