Rome (Italy) -New scenes for the fifth season of the Netflix series " Emily in Paris" were supposed to have been shot in Rome this week , but the papal election threw a spanner in the works.

As US Weekly reports, the production team in Rome was thwarted for days by the media onslaught.

News helicopters and drones circled incessantly over the city to capture the historic event surrounding the election of Robert Francis Prevost (69) as the new Pope Leo XIV.

The noise was so intense that filming had to be interrupted time and again, as an insider revealed to the magazine.

In particular, the area around the famous Spanish Steps, where several scenes were planned, was so noisy that the main actors Lily Collins (36) and Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu (62) had to repeat some scenes several times.

Emily in Paris, the hit series that started in 2020, tells the story of American marketing expert Emily Cooper, who starts a new life in Paris - full of cultural misunderstandings, love chaos and French fashion.

In the current fourth season , Emily's journey takes her to Rome for the first time. What begins as a relaxing vacation quickly turns into a new professional start: the US American is to manage a marketing office in the Italian capital in the future.

An official release date for the new season has not yet been announced, but there is already speculation that it will start at the end of 2025.