![]() “I think that everyone can relate in some way,” Cloud says. How he thought of that, I don’t know.”īut is that really what high school is like? Are kids today really being pressured to lick one of the world’s most dangerous drugs off the tip of a knife? “I was like, that s- hits way harder,” Cloud says. Levinson secretly told the actor playing Mouse to goad Rue into doing some of the bullying, therefore changing the power dynamics of the scene. ![]() The supplier coerces Rue into trying fentanyl, the synthetic opioid that’s 50 times stronger than heroin, all while Fezco watches helplessly, and eventually is humiliated. In one particular instance, Cloud was filming an emotionally wrought scene where Zendaya’s character, Rue, meets Fezco’s drug supplier, Mouse. When asked about Sam Levinson, Euphoria’s auteurist creator, Cloud says he often found himself facing curveballs from the writer-director, who would occasionally change things in the script during shooting by whispering a note into a person’s ear just before filming a take. That’s what it’s called, right? It was cool.” While in high school he built sets and did lighting and sound for the theater department. “We had some of the same friends I guess, but I didn’t really know her,” he says. Despite Fez’s rough exterior, he has emerged as a fan favorite, and Cloud is tasked with many emotionally intense moments on a show that deals heavily with addiction.Īlthough Euphoria is his first acting credit, Cloud went to the Oakland School for the Arts, which the show’s marquee star Zendaya also attended. He plays Fezco, teenage drug dealer to the show’s unnamed town. Now Cloud, 21, stars in HBO’s hit Gen Z drama Euphoria, which follows an ensemble cast of teenagers as they navigate sex, drugs and high school. All my family lives out there.” The plan was just to “live out there, be working.” “I was gonna move to Ireland for a while. “I just kinda went out to the east coast on a one-way type thing,” he says. It's a stark difference and new ground drawn in the genre for this type of character, who most would probably picture as either a Jay (of Jay and Silent Bob fame-they were in Degrassi!) type or a more sinister type of character, like most of the drug dealers in a show like Breaking Bad.At the time, the Oakland, California native was working at a chicken-and-waffles restaurant near the Barclays Center in Brooklyn. After a scary encounter involving Fentanyl in Episode 2, their relationship hit an apex at the ned of Episode 3, when he wouldn't allow her inside for drugs-for her own good. When we first see him, he's supportive of her recent completion of rehab, and sounds disappointed when she says that she doesn't plan on remaining clean. Enter Fezco, or Fez for short.įrom the first episode of the show, Fez has been shown to be a different kind of drug dealer character: he cares about Rue, our protagonist, played by Zendaya. ![]() ![]() ![]() Where Euphoria diverts that last one, though, is how it handles a key character involved in the drug portion of the show. For as unique as it's already proven to be through it's early episodes, Euphoriastill checks a lot of the boxes typically found in other shows of the same genre: partying, relationship drama, and drug use are all recurring themes that key plot points revolve around. ![]()
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