Barbie Ferreira reveals why she left ‘Euphoria’: ‘Fats finest pal’ stereotype
“Euphoria” followers had been crushed when star Barbie Ferreira introduced her surprising departure from the HBO present final yr.
The 26-year-old actress bought candid on Monday’s episode of “Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard” podcast the place she defined why she actually determined to depart, whereas additionally addressing “poisonous” set accusations and her much-rumored feud with present runner Sam Levinson.
The Queens native portrayed Kat Hernandez on the teenager drama and famous that she was uninterested in enjoying into “fats finest pal” stereotypes.
She added that it was a “mutual choice” for her to depart the sequence earlier than Season 3, explaining that Kat’s character arc had run its course.
“I don’t assume there was a spot for her to go,” Ferreira stated.
“I believe there have been locations she might have gone. I simply don’t assume it will have match into the present. I don’t know if it was going to do her justice, and I believe each events [Levinson and I] knew that I actually needed to have the ability to not be the fats finest pal.”
The underside line: “I don’t wish to play that — and I believe they didn’t need that both.”
Ferreira admitted that it was a “battle” to seek out important plot traces for her character in Season 2, and that finally led to her exit.
She additionally instructed host Shepard the way it wasn’t only a combat inside herself, however it was even a battle for Levinson as nicely.
“It was a battle to seek out the continuation of her. In order that was truly actually hurtful watching it and seeing the followers get upset,” the “Unpregnant” star stated.
“I simply felt like, perhaps it’s like I overstayed my welcome just a little bit?” Ferreira continued. “So, for me, I truly felt good to be like, ‘Okay, I get to not fear about this and we each don’t get too frightened about this,’ as a result of it’s exhausting.”
She then claimed that Levinson solely writes for “issues that he pertains to” and doesn’t assume he bonded with Kat.
“I like Kat, so I get to go alone path,” she stated. “At first, I used to be like, ‘Oh, my God, I’m a flop. I’m a loser.’ [But] It actually has been a superb factor.”
The Brazilian-American entertainer’s shock exit was introduced final August.
Just some months previous to her announcement, HBO was hit with claims that the “Euphoria” set was a “poisonous” work setting.
Disgruntled crew members alleged that their experiences on set had been “hellish” and manufacturing failed to offer them correct meals and toilet breaks, in line with the Daily Beast.
The community slammed the experiences shortly after, declaring in a statement to the Hollywood Reporter: “The manufacturing was in full compliance with all security tips and guild protocols. The well-being of forged and crew on our productions is at all times a high precedence.”