• Lily Collins and her husband Charlie McDowell would “love” to start a family.
• “The key thing is finding out what makes sense for us.”
• “There were times I forgot he was my fiancé, because we had such a creative rapport.”

The 39-year-old film director, whose parents are actors Malcolm McDowell and Mary Steenburgen, and the 33-year-old “Emily in Paris” actress were married in 2021. She has since stated that she wishes to balance a profession with a busy personal life.

She told Harper’s Bazaar magazine when asked if she had plans for children with Charlie: “Of course, I’d love to have a family. So there’s the personal, the work, there’s the blending of the two… it’s always a juggle, but I want it to be – I want to be able to do all the things I enjoy.

“The key thing is finding out what makes sense for us.”

Working with Charlie when he was her fiancé on the production of the 2021 movie “Windfall,” which he directed, produced, and co-wrote, allowed Lily to already combine her personal and family lives.

The actress – who plays the wife of a rich company boss in the flick, which sees the couple find a burglar at their holiday home – said: “It was quite seamless because Charlie treated all the cast the same way – he’s very much an actor’s director.

“There were times I forgot he was my fiancé, because we had such a creative rapport.”

Lily also responded to those who had criticised the Netflix comedy smash “Emily in Paris,” in which she portrays the awkward American marketing executive Emily Cooper, who travels across the pond to France and struggles with both love and work.

The first series was dismissed by some as outdated due to its “stereotypical” representations of French people, but Lily said: “I think the fact it’s gone on for three seasons means enough people are loving it to binge on it… and even if you want not to like it, you’re probably bingeing too!

“When we went back to film the second season, people would just come up to us on the street and say, ‘Thank you for the show – thank you for making us smile.’”

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