“This Is Not Giving Good Vibes”: Zendaya Gave Some Rare Comments On “Euphoria” Season 3 — And It Sounds Chaotic

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We’re little than a period distant from the highly anticipated 3rd play of HBO’s Euphoria. Although you’d beryllium forgiven for not knowing that, due to the fact that hardly anyone is talking astir it — not adjacent the stars of the show.

To rapidly refresh your mind, the archetypal play of Euphoria premiered successful Summer 2019 to rave reviews and aboriginal earned Zendaya her archetypal Emmy for her portrayal of Rue Bennett, a teen recovering from cause addiction.

The 2nd play premiered successful 2022 and, contempt each the hype, wasn’t arsenic well-received by critics. But the viewing figures were inactive incredibly high, and Zendaya nabbed different Emmy for her performance, too.

The 3rd play was confirmed successful early 2022 portion Season 2 was inactive airing, and successful the 4 years since, determination person been large doubts arsenic to whether it’d adjacent hap owed to extended reports of behind-the-scenes play — including a rumored rift betwixt Zendaya and the show’s creator, Sam Levinson.

For context, Zendaya was not lone the prima of Euphoria but besides an enforcement producer. She and Sam were precise close, notably collaborating connected the 2020 Netflix indie movie Malcolm & Marie. However, a 2024 exposure by the Hollywood Reporter claimed that their narration began to autumn isolated erstwhile Sam got caught up successful his different HBO show, The Idol.

As you whitethorn remember, The Idol was beauteous overmuch a implicit disaster. It aired successful June 2023 to widespread criticism and was canceled aft lone 1 season. Around this time, Rolling Stone published an exposé connected Sam’s allegedly chaotic originative process during the making of the show, alleging that it’d gone “disgustingly, disturbingly disconnected the rails.”

According to the Hollywood Reporter, it was the Idol ungraded that sparked a rift betwixt Zendaya and Sam, with her reportedly feeling uneasy astir however her “pristine” estimation could beryllium tarnished by her relation with him. “They went from being truthful close, and they couldn’t hole it,” a root claimed.

Well, determination down the line, Z and Sam were intelligibly capable to enactment their alleged “creative issues” speech successful bid to get to enactment connected the long-awaited 3rd play of Euphoria, which began shooting successful 2025 aft years of delays.

The Season 3 trailer yet dropped successful January this year, giving fans their archetypal look astatine the acquainted characters aft a five-year clip leap successful the story. You tin ticker it here.

What’s interesting, though, is that Euphoria’s all-star formed has been suspiciously quiescent and unenthusiastic astir the show’s return. In a Variety interrogation successful December, Jacob Elordi expressed concerns that it wouldn’t beryllium precise “good,” and Zendaya has yet to adjacent admit Season 3 connected societal media, which is very unusual for her, peculiarly compared to however she promoted the archetypal 2 seasons of the show.

It's besides worthy noting that, backmost successful January, fans noticed Zendaya's sanction was missing from the database of enforcement producers for Euphoria Season 3 connected the Warner Bros. Discovery website. She has not publically commented connected this. (And yes, that's the Drake you deliberation it is.)

Suffice to say, each this isn’t giving radical the highest hopes for what Season 3 whitethorn bring. And with lone a fewer weeks to wait, Zendaya gave immoderate uncommon comments astir Euphoria connected the reddish carpet for her caller movie, The Drama.

Chatting with Variety, Zendaya was asked what fans should “expect” from the caller series, prompting her to uncover that she’s really lone “seen a small bit” of the last cut. “Um, there’s a— Oh gosh. It was a whirlwind,” she said, discussing past year’s frantic shoot. “I did what I usually bash successful 8 months successful similar 4 months, so…it was similar trying to get 8 episodes successful astatine once.”

“It conscionable flew by me, but, yeah, I'm excited,” she concluded. “I anticipation it turns retired beautifully.”

Granted that she said she’s not watched overmuch of the series, those comments didn’t truly archer america each that overmuch — and it’s making radical a small nervous. One Reddit idiosyncratic observed that she's “talking similar she guest-starred” successful the show, portion idiosyncratic other speculated that it “feels similar folks are washing their hands of this amusement successful the astir polite mode possible.”

Zendaya’s latest interrogation comes little than a week aft Labrinth, who composed the people for Seasons 1 and 2 of Euphoria, posted and deleted a cryptic Instagram statement blasting the TV series.

Reacting to this connected Reddit, 1 idiosyncratic wrote: “This is not bully astatine all. Euphoria’s soundtrack has to beryllium up determination with 1 of the champion erstwhile it comes to TV shows. Everything I've heard and seen astir Euphoria play 3 is beauteous negative. It’s looking bleak.”

Well, we’ll person to hold and see. Euphoria Season 3 premieres connected HBO and Max connected Sunday, April 12.

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