Emily Cooper, the definitely-not-22-year-old main character of Emily in Paris, may be a generally polarizing, like-her-or-hate-her character in the series, but get ready to be further divided. E! did a deep
dive of the actor behind her hot neighbor chef Gabriel, Lucas Bravo, and discovered he didn't always have his current hairstyle. In 2018, Bravo had long, luscious hair—and was very much just another heartthrob traveler in gorgeous Iceland. Behold and swoon:
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The long hair made it in other shots on his Instagram too, by the way:
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This is him with shorter hair more recently, for reference:
A beautiful man is a beautiful man with any hair length, of course. But some fans definitely prefer the long hair. "This hairrrrrr - love it," one fan commented on the Iceland shot.
"Wow! I love the long hair. You looked great?" another added.
And the staff at E! was very into the entire thing: "#EmilyInParis? We prefer Gabriel in Iceland, complete with long hair we CANNOT stop swooning over. Consider this E!'s official spinoff request. Do your thing, @Netflix. (?: @lucasnbravo)," they captioned their repost of Bravo's Iceland shot on Instagram.
Bravo, by the way, weighed in on the whole debate over Emily Cooper's (played by Lily Collins, 31) age. "I would say she's probably 24," Bravo told E!. "Something happens after 26 where women start exploring...in terms of personality. I feel like she's still very strong willed and she has certainties, but yeah I would say [that she is] around 24."