9/12/2023 0 Comments Hbo euphoria open casting call![]() ![]() Since wrapping production on Euphoria, Cloud has found himself at the top of Santa Monica pier’s ferris wheel more than the average Angeleno. I was like, ‘Holy smokes! What am I going to do with my time?’” And, just when he had finally started to build a routine, it was over: “Then I realized I don’t have a job anymore. Cloud was mesmerized by the amount of manpower behind the camera, everyone “jumpin around,” as he puts it. During down time on set, he would ride a bike around the studio lot, watching the filming of the other scenes he wasn’t in. I’d be drained, but I was just sitting there acting.”Īnd, while the acting didn’t get any easier, he started to understand the world around it a lot more. I am not running around sweating, but it’s that mental shit. Was it more tiring than working in the chicken and waffles place? “It’s a different kind of hard. In those first weeks, he was surprised by how exhausted he was at the end of the day. ![]() “I was like, whoa, that is some extra shit, but it’s actually the basic shit,” Cloud says. They would talk about their performance process, some writing full journals from their character’s perspectives to better understand them. His castmates' collective credits include The Handmaid’s Tale and The Walking Dead they’ve worked with directors like Kathryn Bigelow and Ava DuVernay. Why did they bring me over here for this? They should have gotten a real actor for this job.’” But on the inside, “I’m like, ‘I don’t know what I am doing. “I was trying to look normal and relaxed and chill,” he says, remembering the experience. Really, his first time in front of a camera was his introduction on the show, when Fez is established as the gas station-dwelling dealer to a teenage drug addict, Rue (Zendaya). He spent high school building the sets and lighting the stage for the real actors. Though he’d attended the prestigious Oakland School for the Arts (the same performing arts institution attended by his Euphoria costar Zendaya before she jumped ship for a prosperous Disney Channel career), his focus was on technical theater. ![]() Cloud couldn’t believe he was being paid to act, either. Realtors weren’t alone in their disbelief. “I don’t have any credit and they didn’t believe I was a real actor.” “Nobody was trying to rent me a spot,” he says, laughing. He quickly moved to Los Angeles for the show’s eight-month shoot, staying in a series of AirBnBs near the Culver City lot where he was filming because Los Angeles landlords wouldn’t give him a lease. After all, if producers had cast him to act like himself, he thought, why would he try to learn how to act like anyone else? “Imma just show up and do what they want and then be done,” he remembers.Īfter Cloud wrapped the pilot, the show’s creator, Sam Levinson, called him to say that Euphoria had been picked up to series. “I wasn’t trying to learn how to act on the plane over there,” he says. He says he quickly ruled out combing through YouTube acting tutorials, or reading up on the craft, before getting to the set. He is less so an actor by training, or even by desire, and more so one by complete chance, with Euphoria being his first ever credit. Amongst a stacked cast that includes former child actors, models-turned-performers, and the love interest from Netflix’s The Kissing Booth-all of which are led by Hollywood’s most sought after twenty-something, Zendaya-Cloud is unique. Playing Fez, a drug dealer with a heart of gold, Cloud has similarly amassed ardent supporters who would “literally murder for him,” according to Twitter. Over its short eight-episode stretch, Euphoria (which is executively produced by its stars’ fellow cool teen, Drake) has rapidly built a fervent fan base, becoming appointment viewing for the generation that aren’t just cord cutters, but the ones that never had any cords to begin with. And it may never have been handled with the nonchalance of Angus Cloud.Ĭloud stars on HBO’s buzzy summer breakout hit, Euphoria, which follows a group of high schoolers doing drugs, having sex, filming it all, and blackmailing the hell out of each along the way. It’s played out on the big screen in movies like My Fair Lady and The Jerk, but rarely does it happen so matter-of-factly in real life. It’s a familiar Hollywood story by now: A normal person gets plucked from relative obscurity and hoisted into an unfamiliar social strata. ![]()
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