What’s even crazier? This isn’t even the season of television we were originally supposed to see. As Zendaya admitted in her interview, the original season two scripts—which Sam rewrote during the COVID-19-related pause on production—are nothing like what aired in 2022.
She revealed, “The things that didn’t make it [to your screen] definitely needed to die.”
With the new storylines, season two proved to be an even bigger rollercoaster than the first season of Euphoria. For everything the cast has said about making season two, scroll through the gallery below.
As questions arose about Euphoria’s use of nudity and drugs, Eric Dane told E! News that “it’s all got a purpose.”
“And as long as it’s purposeful in the context of the story, then I think it’s useful,” he continued. “As far as the drugs go, you know, I never thought this show is a love letter to drugs. It’s, as far as I’ve seen, nothing I want to partake in. In fact, it to me it seems more like a cautionary tale.”
Austin Abrams on His Erotic Dance Scene
After making a splash with his “Holding Out for a Hero” dance number on Euphoria, Austin Abrams shared that the scene was originally meant to be even more erotic. In an interview with Entertainment Tonight, Austin said the script had him in his underwear and “lathered down in oil and doing all these things.”
By the time shooting occurred, the scene was updated to Austin wearing a football uniform, which was a relief to him as he “thought it was just going to be barefoot.”
Euphoria, Alexa Demie
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Alexa Demie on Maddy Having a Gun Pointed at Her
Season two saw Alexa Demie’s confident character Maddy facing a breakdown, as her ex-boyfriend Nate (Jacob Elordi) traumatized her with a manipulative game of Russian roulette.
“It was an incredibly difficult scene not only because of the gun to my head,” Alexa told Entertainment Weekly, “but because it was choreographed in a really specific way. We had to move with the camera movements and it was really broken up, and so it took us two days to shoot. It was basically all we did all day on those days.”
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