A number of months after saying her early commencement from Euphoria Excessive, Barbie Ferreira is breaking her silence on her departure.
“I don’t assume there was a spot for her to go,” she stated of her character, Kat, on Monday’s episode of Armchair Knowledgeable with Dax Shepherd. “I feel there have been locations she might have gone. I simply don’t assume it might have match into the present. I don’t know if it was going to do her justice, and I feel each events knew that I actually needed to have the ability to not be the fats greatest buddy. I don’t wish to play that, and I feel they didn’t need that both.” Ferreira added that she and collection creator Sam Levinson got here to a “mutual resolution” to finish their working relationship.
Ferreira spoke of the “wrestle” to discover a worthy storyline for Kat in season two amidst hypothesis that alleged fallout between her and Levinson led to her lowered position. After Kat’s self-empowerment arc in season one, her restricted display time within the present’s second season largely centered on the character faking a terminal sickness to interrupt up together with her boyfriend, Ethan (Austin Abrams).
Ferreira stated that it was “really actually hurtful” to look at season two, “seeing the followers get upset” concerning the character’s decline. “I simply felt like, possibly it’s like I overstayed my welcome just a little bit?” she recalled considering. “So for me, I really felt good to be like, ‘Okay, I get to not fear about this, and we each don’t get too fearful about this,’ as a result of it’s exhausting.”
The 26-year-old actor continued, “Sam writes, for like, issues that he pertains to. I don’t assume he pertains to Kat. I like Kat, so I get to go alone path. At first, I used to be like, ‘Oh my God, I’m a flop. I’m a loser.’ It actually has been a great factor.”
Ferreira additionally mentioned The Each day Beast’s report final February alleging that she walked off set whereas filming season two—a chunk that additionally stated the actor injured herself whereas filming a sizzling tub scene. “When individuals ask me about season two, it’s normally they arrive at me like I used to be some form of sufferer to season two. And I’m all the time like, ‘No, it’s okay, promise. It’s good,'” Ferreira stated. “I really didn’t stroll off set. I did sprain my ankle as soon as, and needed to go get an X-ray. Perhaps that’s what they imply?”
HBO denied that the manufacturing was poisonous in an announcement to The Hollywood Reporter, noting that Euphoria “was in full compliance with all security tips and guild protocols” and that “there have been by no means any formal inquiries raised.”
Ferreira announced her leave final August, writing on her Instagram Story alongside paintings by Euphoria costar Hunter Schafer, “After 4 years of attending to embody probably the most particular and enigmatic character Kat, I’m having to say a really teary-eyed goodbye. I hope a lot of you can see your self in her like I did and that she introduced you pleasure to see her journey into the character she is right now. I put all my care and love into her and I hope you guys might really feel it. Love you Katherine Hernandez.”
