While he's got several huge projects lined up, acting is basically Javon's side hustle. The actor behind everyone's favourite teenage drug-dealer, Ashtray, has huge real life sporting aspirations. 10) Javon Walton is an elite boxer and gymnast who is training for the Olympics.
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Less than 4 weeks later, she had been flown out to LA, auditioned for the series and was offered the role. Vape Girl, told Good Day Columbus that she was approached by casting producers while out shopping. And then they had me do a couple auditions and then auditioned in front of some of the producers or whatever, and then flew to LA for the pilot, man." 9) Sophia Rose Wilson was scouted in a shopping centre. "They filmed my answers, just random questions about my life and shit. She said, 'Can I talk to you?' I was like, 'You got to walk with me.'" On the A24 Podcast, Angus said: "So I was just walking down the street with my homies and this woman, Eléonore Hendricks, I believe is her name, she came up to me. I even went to a deli and was getting a sandwich and the cheese was called Euphoria.” 8) Angus Cloud was working at a Waffle House when he was plucked off the street to audition for Fez.
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And then they had told me Zendaya was up for Rue, and I saw a license plate that said ‘ZISRUE’ – and we all call her Z. 7) Alexa Demie was convinced she'd play Maddy after seeing several signs relating to the show.īefore being officially cast as Maddy Thee Perez, Alexa told W Magazine that she experienced a series of weird coincidences all pointing towards the series: “When I was driving to the audition, I saw Jacob walking and thought, ‘That’s Nate.’ I just knew. Ultimately, Hunter kept getting callbacks and ended up landing the role of Jules. Martins in London to study fashion design. I was only modelling in New York just really to be making some money and be in New York and around an industry that I wanted to work in."īefore Euphoria, Hunter wanted to become a fashion designer and had enrolled at Central St. Speaking on The A24 Podcast, Hunter revealed: "I never acted before Euphoria and it was not in my plan at all. It also echos a storyline in the original Israeli series.Ħ) Hunter Schafer almost didn’t accept the role of Jules.Ĭan you imagine literally anyone else other than Hunter playing Jules? Because we can't. In an apparent early draft script from 2017 that's been widely shared online, one shock storyline features the death of a major character, seemingly at the hands of another major character. What in my career have I done to prove that I can do this?'" 4) In a reported early draft of the scrapped pilot script, a huge main character is killed off. Speaking to EW, Zendaya revealed: "Sam told me that I was on his vision board for Rue, which I thought was crazy. I just write myself and what I was feeling and what I was going through when I was younger and I was dealing with addiction." 3) Zendaya was the ONLY choice to play Rue.Įuphoria without Zendaya? Absolutely not. I think those feelings and memories they’re still extremely accessible to me. In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, Levinson explained: "I just wrote myself as a teenager. While it borrows some aspects of the original Israeli series, a lot of HBO's Euphoria is rooted in Sam Levinson's own experiences with substance abuse, addiction and rehab. A lot of the characters on the HBO show share some similarities with the original characters too, including Rue, Kat and Ashtray.Ģ) The series draws on Sam Levinson’s real life experiences. The 2012 Israeli series only aired 10 episodes and was set in the '90s. It's adapted from a series of the same name, created by Ron Lesham.
Yep, Euphoria is not an entirely original series. Here's a whole load of facts about Euphoria that any fan of the HBO series should know.Įuphoria: 33 facts and behind-the-scenes secrets you should know.ġ) Euphoria is actually an adaptation of an Israeli series. But how much do you know about everything that goes on behind-the-scenes on the series?įrom certain cast members having their characters written for them, to the ones who landed the role on their first audition, and from the behind-the-scenes filming secrets to all the wild stories the cast have shared from set. The Zendaya-led teen series has taken over every social media platform, with memes filling the timelines each week and episode-by-episode breakdowns going viral on TikTok.