Hunter Schafer isn’t shedding much light on the creative issues allegedly plaguing a third season of Euphoria. But she is acknowledging that the show will forever be changed by the loss of her co-star Angus Cloud, who died last year at the age of 25 of an accidental drug overdose. “I’ve never had a friend that I was that close to and that was my age pass before,” Schafer said in a new interview with British GQ. “It’s really surreal. It doesn’t make sense. And yeah, it’s new. It’s a new kind of grieving.”
The reality that Cloud is gone “comes randomly,” Schafer continued. “It will hit me when I’m on the fucking toilet. It’s really… I don’t know. Grief is fucking weird.”
She acknowledged the impassioned feelings viewers had developed for Cloud and his character, kind-hearted drug dealer Fezco. “People really fell in love with Angus,” Schafer said. “He was really one of the heartbeats of Euphoria. It’s always the people that are just kind of a little too good for the world and a little too pure. He was a fucking angel. He was sunshine.” The actor previously paid tribute to Cloud on social media, writing, “to have known his warmth, his light, and his love was nothing short of a gift. i’m so grateful to have shared so many enormous fits of laughter, so many sweet moments, and the joy of getting to make something together that we loved so much.”
Schafer was also asked about her previous romantic relationship with Dominic Fike, who she met on season two of Euphoria. She said that dating a man for the first time allowed her to “work through a lot of the feelings of disdain that I had towards men as a whole,” adding, “I think it had inhibited a lot of my friendships with men, and a lot of that came down as well. I had a really beautiful relationship with [Fike], and it really opened me up in that way.”
While the 25-year-old is in no rush to meet someone new (“I’m still in some ways healing from the last thing”), Schafer also finally confirmed to the publication that she previously dated singer Rosalía, who has been linked to Jeremy Allen White since last December. “It’s been so much speculation for so long,” Schafer explained. “Part of us just wants to get it over with, and then another part is like, ‘It’s none of anybody’s fucking business!’” However, “it’s something I’m happy to share. And I think she feels that way too,” she said.
The pair dated for around five months in the fall and winter of 2019, Schafer told British GQ, and while their romance didn’t last, they have remained friends. “I have really beautiful friendships with people that I was once romantically involved with,” Schafer said, referring to Rosalía as “family no matter what.”
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