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    Barbie Ferreira Addresses Euphoria Exit After Sam Levinson Feud Rumors

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    Watch: Barbie Ferreira Shares Surprising Truth Behind Her ‘Euphoria’ Exit After Sam Levinson Feud Rumors

    Barbie Ferreira has never, ever been happier. 

    The Euphoria alum revealed the real reason she left the HBO series after two seasons portraying Kat—and it wasn’t because of a feud with creator Sam Levinson, despite rumors to the contrary.

    “It wasn’t dramatic,” she said on the Not Skinny But Not Fat podcast on April 14. “In fact, it was kind of the opposite of dramatic where it was like a long process of being like, ‘I don’t know if this is it for me’ and then having conversations with people and us trying to figure out how to make Kat like a fully fleshed-out character and it just wasn’t going anywhere.”

    She continued, “Since we can’t find anything and we can’t land on anything, I’m like, ‘Let me just go. Let me just go do my thing.’”

    The Faces of Death actress said it wasn’t worth staying on “the biggest TV show on earth” if she didn’t feel like she had the right material to work with.

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    Euphoria’s Barbie Ferreira Addresses Rumors She Walked Off Set

    “I would rather do an indie movie,” she explained, “where I’m acting, I’m flexing my muscles, I’m being creatively asked to do things rather than kind of sitting around to be like a background character.”

    After years of persistent rumors that she and Sam did not get along, Barbie once again emphasized that there was no drama.

    “It wasn’t like I woke up one day angry,” she clarified. “It was a very long arduous process of processing and weighing the pros and cons, seeing what was going to happen, and at the end of the day being like, ‘I believe in myself as an actress and I want to see my career look a little differently than this.’ And I’m like, it’s okay if it’s not like the hit TV show.”

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    Now, Barbie is leading two recently-released indie vehicles, Faces of Death and Mile End Kicks, the latter of which she also produced. 

    “I do indie movies that literally like are made on a shoestring budget,” she joked, “but it’s cool and real stories. And I’d rather that than kind of be a second thought.”

    With Barbie setting the record straight on her Euphoria experience, read on to remember some of the show’s most talked about moments.

    The One Direction SceneLouis Tomlinson responded to a fan on Twitter who asked if he approved of this scene, which revealed that Kat (Barbie Ferreira) was a famous fanfiction writer who created the conspiracy theory that two members of One Direction were secretly in love. It was an Anime-style animated depiction of a story Kat had written, and it was hilarious in the moment, though Tomlinson says it was not approved.”When I first read the script, that was the first thing that popped out to me, because I can relate to that as a 22-year-old woman who lived through the One Direction age,” Ferreira told THR. “It’s such a reality for so many people, and so many children and teens that are fans just have this escapist world. You completely give yourself to this persona of a person you don’t even know, or five guys, and imaging the way they interact the escaping from your own reality. It’s really interesting to me because I was definitely a part of that, where I wanted to escape my own life and focus on others because it was easier and felt more meaningful.” 
    The 11 Year-Old Drug DealerIn the first episode, we saw Rue arrive home from rehab and immediately go in search of more drugs. One of her drug dealers is an actual child, an 11 year-old named Ashtray, who keeps drugs in a microwave. He’s played by Javon “Wanna” Walton, a champion boxer. 
    Eric Dane’s Prosthetic17 year-old trans girl Jules (Hunter Schafer) ditched a party in favor of meeting a Grindr hookup, who turned out to be played by Eric Dane. They proceeded to have some rough sex after Dane went full-frontal, complete with a prosthetic penis. We then followed Jules to the party she had ditched, where she was bullied by troubled football player Nate, who was then revealed to be the son of the Grindr hookup. It’s a complicated web! “To a degree this is a cautionary tale,” Dane told EW. “It’s certainly not a love letter to drugs or drug addiction, but as a cautionary tale, these are some pretty realistic circumstances and how these kids are navigating them is probably how a lot of kids today are going to navigate them.”
    Nate Choking MaddyAfter she made a scene at the carnival, Nate pulled Maddy behind a trailer and nearly choked her to death. It was just as shocking to watch as you might imagine, and this assault followed them for the rest of the season in equally upsetting ways. 
    Zendaya’s Acting ShowcaseThis scene from episode three isn’t particularly shocking, but it is a little heartbreaking to watch Rue beg Fez to let her in to buy from him. It floated around on Twitter after the Emmy nominations were announced, as if to prove exactly why Zendaya deserved that Best Drama Actress nom. 
    Cassie’s Carousel RideEverything that happened at the carnival was wild, but perhaps the funniest and least terrifying was Cassie’s molly-induced ride on the carousel. Let’s just say she had an incredibly good time on that horse…
    “All Of Us”The finale ended with Rue breaking her sobriety and breaking into song—the Zendaya original, “All of Us.” The whole thing turned into a breathtaking music video, complete with a whole company of dancers. It’s beautiful, if just as upsetting as the rest of the show. 
    So Many PenisesDuring the opening scenes of episode two, “Stuntin’ Like My Daddy,” we learn just how Nate (Jacob Elordi) came to be so horribly angry and toxically masculine. Apparently he’s so afraid of seeing anyone else’s penis in a locker room that he taught himself to stare straight ahead, so cue shots of Jacob Elordi standing completely still, fully clothed, while a hundred naked boys cheer and shout around him. Apparently the scene originally had a whole lot more penises, but HBO asked for some of them to be removed.”For me, it was interesting because that scene was actually very real, and the look on my face and the way that I was feeling was very real,” Elordi told THR. “The energy in the room of that many big men jumping and yelling and slapping you—nudity aside—I’m nothing like Nate, and it was so intense. I didn’t realize locker rooms could be so intense, but it was actually quite hilarious. I don’t care about that kind of stuff, and it’s funny reading all of the reviews now—everyone’s like, ‘There’s this many penises.’ But when you’re there, it was just hilarious. I think it’s a funny scene, and I’ll definitely never forget it.” 
    Dick Pic ClassIn episode 3, when Jules shows Rue a picture sent to her by her secret Grindr lover (who is secretly Nate), Rue breaks out into a full analysis of what makes a horrifying, terrifying, or acceptable picture of a penis, and it’s hilarious, and also filled with pictures of penises. This show is funny sometimes! It’s not entirely upsetting!Later we discovered that Nate had a whole collection of dick pics stored on his phone. In an interview with the LA Times, intimacy coordinator Amanda Blumenthal revealed that her team reached out to “friends and friends of friends” to see if they would provide the pictures. They then took the pictures themselves, and had to sign a consent form. Around 34 pictures are shown in the episode.
    That Webcam SceneAfter having a sex tape leaked and discovering the money she could make from becoming a cam girl, Kat Skypes with a man who then reveals his micropenis and begins to masturbate while asking her to humiliate him.The micropenis was a prosthetic, and the scene was filmed with the actor actually on a Skype call from another room.”I was really excited to do that scene, it’s so funny and so up my alley of this dark humor but also this very vulnerable, real interaction that I know many people have gone through,” Ferreira told THR. “The added layer that it’s a micropenis, it was honestly such a fun scene to shoot because my reactions were so genuine. He was actually there and had an earpiece in and I could hear him and see the Skype video. The reaction is there, the literal scene is my actual reaction to seeing that. I couldn’t contain myself sometimes.”

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