Euphoria's Storm Reid, Nika King, and Colman Domingo discuss filming the exhausting intervention episode, preparing to take on the material, and more.
Editor’s note: The following contains spoilers for Season 2, Episode 5 of HBO’s Euphoria.On the HBO original series Euphoria, Rue has been on a downward spiral that’s even worse than those closest to her have feared. And while it’s easy to understand why the people in her life that love her would want to help her, when an addict is out of control, it’s up to them to pull themselves out and find a new path, and often things get much uglier and much darker before ever finding the light again.
NIKA KING: You just mentioned emotionally exhausting. You’re like, “Okay, I have my lines. I know what I’m going to do,” but after a while, your body is affected in a way that I wasn’t ready for. There’s a lot of running after each other, and tackling and holding. You forget there’s emotional and physical exhaustion. I was happy when it was over. I was just like, “Woo! Okay.” I had to go home. I had to decompress. It was a lot, but I think it’s what was needed for this season.
REID: My process with anything, but specifically Euphoria and being Gia, is to prepare but not over-prepare. Things always are changing and there are always new ideas and opportunities in which we find something that really works or that is really brilliant, in the moment. Everything Miss Nika said [is true]. It’s exhausting, doing those scenes. It’s literally physically, emotionally, and mentally exhausting.
It keeps letting you know how unsettling and how unstable the disease of addiction is and how people will do anything to have things go their way. The whole season, she’s manipulative as hell. She’s using everything. At some point, from my perspective, I think she uses the death of her father to get sympathy. She’ll even use that. I think Ali, understanding the disease of addiction, and his whole purpose and engine in the scene, is to be that north star to say, “I’ve been through it.
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