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Zendaya and Colman Domingo May ‘Pursue Other Opportunities’ After ‘Euphoria’ Season 3 Filming Delayed
Fans of “Euphoria” can have to attend slightly longer for the third season.
HBO Max announced Monday that filming on the hit teen drama has been delayed to provide creator Sam Levinson more time to put in writing scripts. (*3*)Hollywood reporter. Production on “Euphoria” was scheduled to start inside the following few months, Deadline announced, but no binding date was given.
The production delay allows lead actress Zendaya and series regulars Colman Domingo, Storm Reid and Nice King to pursue other projects, the streamer said in an announcement.
“HBO and Sam Levinson remain committed to an exceptional third season,” HBO told THR. “In the meantime, we are allowing our popular cast to pursue other opportunities.”
However, the solid has not been released from their contracts, and in accordance with THR, the third season of “Euphoria” continues to be expected to premiere in 2025. According to reports, work on the third season of the acclaimed HBO series was initially delayed resulting from a author’s strike in 2023. Season two will air in 2022.
Meanwhile, the “Euphoria” solid has catapulted into the ranks of A-list stars, with Zendaya leading the billion-dollar “Dune” franchise, Domingo receiving her first Oscar nomination for her role in Netflix’s “Rustin,” and Reid winning her first Emmy for her performance as Riley Abel within the HBO series “The Last of Us”.
According to Variety, Zendaya held back tears while talking about “Euphoria” and her character, Rue, on the 2022 FYC Emmy Awards on the Academy Museum.
“One of the greatest honors of being able to play her is all the stories I’ve gained now when people come to me and share their sobriety stories” – Zendaya he said then. “It’s so beautiful to me every time, and I think I take those stories with me and they become part of who I am every time I play her.”
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“I’m very touched because I care about her a lot because she represents a lot of people who need a lot of love. It represents a part of me and a part of Sam (Levinson). It means a lot to me and I just want people to be able to heal through it.”
Domingo addressed the delay of the third season in an interview with GQ in February, in the course of the Oscar campaign. The actor said that creator Levinson is “a person who writes, rewrites, writes and rewrites because I think he’s grappling with what’s important.”
“He immediately responds to the world’s ills,” Domingo told the publication. “I do know the one thing I can inform you is that he may be very concerned about the existential query of who we at the moment are. Our souls. That’s what I need to determine in season three.”