![]() ![]() ![]() “Despite all the darkness and hardship, we have to have hope,” said Vernieu. Zendaya took the role, with Disney’s “A Wrinkle in Time” star Storm Reid also extending her scope as her little sister. But she knew from beginning what to do with it, how important it was. At the last minute she read it and wanted to do it. Getting her people to take a minute to read it and pass it on: ‘Are you sure this is what you want to do?’ It’s a complex character. ![]() “It was something so far from her persona. “At first I thought she wouldn’t do it, it’s such a departure,” said Vernieu. And she argued vehemently to showrunner Levinson that the series needed the magnetic good-girl Zendaya to draw in the audience, giving them someone familiar to make them feel secure within a challenging contemporary milieu that often feels too authentic for comfort. But “Euphoria” offered her the opportunity to reveal her range, digging deeper in a way that no one was expecting. Undercover” as well as Hugh Jackman’s smash musical “The Greatest Showman” and Spiderman gal pal MJ for Marvel. After all, the model and “Dancing with the Stars” contestant had already come into her own on Disney’s “Shake It Up” and “K.C. Zendaya’s casting was by no means in the bag: her management team wasn’t sure that playing an addict was the best thing for the 22-year-old rising star’s career. It’s watching tons of tapes from all over the country, knowing what Sam likes, and bringing in different people and trying different things.”įirst up was casting the series lead, an addicted teen who loves her family – who discover her overdosed and comatose in Episode 1 – but finds it hard to cope with the world without altering her consciousness. We have a great combination of some cast who have never acted before and someone like Jacob Elordi who came from Australia. It is a bold, brave, exciting movie with a young cast. While the casting directors “had an idea of Sam’s taste and style going into ‘Euphoria,'” added Kelly, the pilot was “like nothing I had ever read or seen before. It’s a wonderful artistic process for us, to be allowed to dive in and find these characters.” “In this day and age the opportunity to discover people doesn’t happen that much anymore,” said Vernieu, who was an associate casting director for Billy Hopkins on Tony Scott’s “True Romance,” starring Christian Slater, Dennis Hopper, Christopher Walken, Patricia Arquette, Brad Pitt, and James Gandolfini. Continuations of their own signature styles (Zendaya in glammed-up menswear could give anyone heart palpitations), even this brief appearance proves exactly why the Euphoria cast occupies such an outsized space in contemporary pop culture.‘Full Circle’ Episodes 1 and 2 Review: Ed Solomon and Steven Soderbergh Build a Maze of Slow-Burning Dread Hunter Schafer’s Y2K-style face-framing blonde strands, Alexa Demie’s dramatic hair swirl, and Zendaya’s steely grey smoky eye are particularly striking, though. While there is no “best look” among a group this good-looking, the ladies are arguably the standouts of the evening. Hunter Schafer, Zendaya, Alexa Demie, Barbie Ferreira, Sydney Sweeney, and Maude Apatow all stunned on the red carpet, expressing their own unique, personal aesthetics while still managing to look like the close, cohesive group of friends they are both on- and off-screen. Every single member of the Euphoria cast - including Eric Dane and Colman Domingo, for that matter - showed up in hair, makeup, and fashion choices to fill a dozen mood boards. And in the case of the group's attendance at HBO’s For Your Consideration event, there are several exciting moments. It might still be a while yet before screens are graced the world over with a new season of Euphoria - but with a cast this stylish, you never have to wait too long for an exciting moment. ![]()
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