Emma Roberts Begins Production of New Movie in Barcelona

Emma Roberts chats with a friend as she leaves her apartment on Thursday morning (March 39) in Barcelona, Spain.

The 27-year-old actress kept things cool in a gray sweatshirt, jeans, flats, and sunglasses as she headed to the set of her upcoming movie Paradise Hills.

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Later in the day, Emma was spotted arriving back on set after she stepped out for a quick coffee run.

Emma stars in the film as “Uma, the daughter of a magnate who commits suicide after his company is targeted for hostile takeover by a predatory billionaire named Son Prescott. Prescott decides to marry Uma, but only after kidnapping and sending her to Paradise Hills, a private sanitarium where she is to have her mind systematically destroyed,” Deadline reports.