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Sunday Sitdown with Willie Geist

Lily Collins

Sunday Sitdown with Willie Geist

NBC News

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4.54K Ratings

🗓️ 27 March 2022

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

In its first month of streaming in the fall of 2020, Emily in Paris captured the attention of 58 million viewers and made actress Lily Collins a bona fide star around the world. But the 33-year-old’s latest role in the intense, claustrophobic film Windfall is a world away from Paris. In this week’s “Sunday Sitdown,” Willie Geist talks to Collins about that new movie, as well as the global success of Emily in Paris and what it was like growing up the daughter of legendary musician Phil Collins.

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0:00.0

Hey guys, Willie Geist here with another episode of the Sunday Sit Down podcast.

0:06.3

My thanks is always for clicking and listening along.

0:09.4

I got a great one for you this week with Lily Collins.

0:13.1

She is of course the star of the Netflix sensation Emily in Paris, which just had its second

0:18.5

season with two more now on the way.

0:22.5

As I begin my introduction, I would warn you that next to me at this very moment is my

0:26.9

seven-month-old puppy, Bronco.

0:29.3

He is the best, but if you hear another voice in the chorus, that's him.

0:34.0

So Lily and I got together at this cool little restaurant in the village in New York City

0:39.2

beautifully covered with flowers and roses and just a perfect setting for her.

0:44.1

It felt almost European, which is appropriate for the star of Emily in Paris.

0:48.3

But she wasn't there to talk about Emily in Paris entirely.

0:50.9

She's got a new film called Windfall directed by her husband, Charlie McDowell.

0:57.9

How to explain it?

0:58.9

How to let her do it.

1:00.0

But it rolls out almost like a play.

1:02.6

It's all in one setting.

1:03.8

It's a tight 90 minutes.

1:06.3

And it's basically about a robbery, a home invasion.

1:10.7

But believe it or not, as dark as that sounds, there's some comedy in it.

1:14.1

It's kind of a really cool film.

1:15.6

That's also on Netflix.

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