“Sam is super collaborative and has been from the beginning,” Schafer says. Schafer also co-wrote and co-executive produced the episode, titled “F- Anyone Who’s Not a Sea Blob,” with creator and showrunner Sam Levinson. The Raleigh, N.C., native spent her late teen years working in New York as an in-demand runway model before making her acting debut in 2019 with “Euphoria,” on which she plays the effervescent new girl in town who develops a romantic and sometimes toxic relationship with her drug-addicted best friend. Now streaming on HBO Max, the episode continues Schafer’s creative evolution. “Which was really difficult, because even I personally love Rue so deeply and do not like to think about the images that I had to come up with in my head and sit with for that scene.” “It was kind of like letting the worst of Jules’ imagination take over,” Schafer says during a video call from New York City. Jules’ increasingly desperate pleas to “open the f- door” are met with ominous silence - an extension of last month’s episode, which saw the self-destructive Rue midrelapse in their shared dreamscape. During the intense nightmare, Jules arrives at her imaginary New York City apartment to find her high school soulmate, Rue (Zendaya), alone and unresponsive in their bathroom.
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The harrowing dream sequence occurs near the end of Friday’s “Euphoria” special, which sees Jules in a prolonged state of vulnerability and introspection. This sequence involved none of the above - just Schafer in character as Jules, a locked door and a devastating fear of what awaited on the other side. The 22-year-old actress described it as the “most physically demanding scene” she’s ever filmed for the gritty HBO drama, which became known during its first season for graphic depictions of violence, sex and hard drugs.
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Hunter Schafer spent a half-hour screaming, sobbing and slamming her body against a door while shooting the latest episode of “Euphoria.”
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Warning: This post contains spoilers from this week’s special episode of “Euphoria.”