Taking her last bow. Euphoria can have one much less scholar strolling the halls subsequent season, now that Barbie Ferreira has introduced her departure from the HBO Max collection.
“After 4 years of attending to embody essentially the most particular and enigmatic character Kat, I’m having to say a really teary-eyed goodbye,” Ferreira, 25, wrote by way of her Instagram story on Wednesday, August 24, alongside a chunk of fan artwork of her character Kat drawn by costar Hunter Schafer. “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 at present. I put all my care and love into her and I hope you guys might really feel it.”
The Unpregnant star concluded her heartfelt assertion by writing, “I like you, Katherine Hernandez.”
Ferreira served as a collection common on the critically acclaimed teen drama from 2019 to 2022, starring alongside Zendaya, Jacob Elordi and extra younger Hollywood stars. The New York native portrayed Kat Hernandez, a quiet lady navigating highschool by experimenting with NSFW movies and discovering her first boyfriend, Ethan (Austin Abrams) within the present’s first season.
Season 2, nevertheless, dramatically diminished the mannequin’s display screen time, with Kat barely showing at everywhere in the course of the eight episodes. In February, The Each day Beast printed a report with claims from background actors about “a number of complaints made to SAG-AFTRA over the manufacturing ailing to supply them meals on time and refusing to let folks use the lavatory.” The article additionally included hypothesis that Ferreira and creator Sam Levinson had a falling out, which reportedly led to the actress strolling off set. In the meantime, HBO denied any claims of any on-set points.
On the time, Ferreira seemingly responded to the rumors throughout an interview with The Lower. “Kat’s journey this season is a bit more inside and a bit mysterious to the viewers. She is secretly going by means of a whole lot of existential crises. She loses her marbles a bit bit — similar to everybody else on this season. The theme is everybody’s gone a bit loopy,” she defined.
The next month, the Physique Social gathering alum responded to social media backlash across the critically acclaimed drama’s sophomore installment.
“What’s attention-grabbing about this season is there are such a lot of extra eyes on it that even the information cycle has been so attention-grabbing to see,” she advised Insider on the time. “I’ve seen so many various issues and a whole lot of it’s unfaithful and a few of its sort of like mundane little issues.”
Ferreira famous that followers of the teenager collection are “actually passionate” due to how the present has “impacted” them, including that she was joyful to take each “the great and the dangerous” that got here together with a devoted fanbase.
HBO, for its half, responded to the rumors of a poisonous work atmosphere by means of a press release printed by Selection in March.
“The well-being of solid and crew on our productions is at all times a high precedence. The manufacturing was in full compliance with all security pointers and guild protocols,” the assertion learn. “It’s not unusual for drama collection to have complicated shoots, and COVID protocols add a further layer. We keep an open line of communication with all of the guilds, together with SAG-AFTRA. There have been by no means any formal inquiries raised.”
