Zendaya talks about the physical 'aftermath' of her toughest scene in 'Euphoria': "It was intense and terrifying"
The fifth episode of season 2 of 'Euphoria' has been one of the hardest of the series. Now, Zendaya has spoken about the physical consequences she had after filming one of Rue's toughest scenes.
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To date, season 2 of 'Euphoria' has aired five episodes of its new season. Five chapters that have not left anyone indifferent but it has been the 2x05 called 'Stand still like the hummingbird', probably the hardest of all.
The episode begins directly by showing how Rue's mother, played by Nika King, discovers that her daughter has relapsed into drug use and is going through a very difficult phase.
In this way, Rue finds herself in an intervention by her family that provokes an absolute lack of control in her character when she discovers that her mother has taken a suitcase that she had full of drugs that she intended to sell.
Thus, Rue confronts her family in a very violent way so that they give her the suitcase at the same time that she justifies her addiction. There are many hard moments in the scene, but one of the most outstanding is when Zendaya breaks a door with her own body in order to enter her sister's room.
Zendaya talks about the scars she has from this scene in 'Euphoria'
"It's Rue just destroying her life and setting her life on fire and tearing everything down to basically get to what she feels deep down," Zendaya explains in an interview with 'EW'. She later admitted that the scene left her with several physical consequences: "It was a very hard day. I hit myself. I still have some scars on my legs and some bruises."
"It was so intense and scary to tackle and obviously incredibly draining emotionally, but also physically. I care about Rue and I hate when she's in pain. I think in this whole episode, there's a lot of pain that comes to the surface and also crosses with their isolation, which is extremely painful physically," he continues.
To comment later on how her attitude is changing throughout the process: "She has lost control of who she is and you can see that there is a little moment after that where everything turns into regret. You see her doing it and, immediately after, regretting and wondering why she has done it. And then she does it again, as if it were a painful circle in which we see her put".
To end by saying what the cast does at the end of shooting a scene as hard as this: "I am very grateful to be in a space where I feel comfortable and safe, with actors and actresses with whom I am obviously very close. After After every shot, we hug, talk and check how we are, because obviously it's like a war zone," he concludes.
