Taking her last bow. Euphoria could have one much less scholar strolling the halls subsequent season, now that Barbie Ferreira has introduced her departure from the HBO Max sequence.
“After 4 years of attending to embody probably the most particular and enigmatic character Kat, I’m having to say a really teary-eyed goodbye,” Ferreira, 25, wrote through her Instagram story on Wednesday, August 24, alongside a chunk of fan artwork of her character Kat drawn by costar Hunter Schafer. “I hope many of you might see your self in her like I did and that she introduced you pleasure to see her journey into the character she is right now. 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 sequence 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, nonetheless, dramatically decreased 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 revealed 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 individuals use the toilet.” 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 Reduce. “Kat’s journey this season is a bit more inside and just a little mysterious to the viewers. She is secretly going by way of a whole lot of existential crises. She loses her marbles just a little bit — identical to everybody else on this season. The theme is everybody’s gone just a little loopy,” she defined.
The next month, the Physique Celebration alum responded to social media backlash round 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 alternative issues and a whole lot of it’s unfaithful and a few of its form of like mundane little issues.”
Ferreira famous that followers of the teenager sequence are “actually passionate” due to how the present has “impacted” them, including that she was blissful 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 surroundings by way of a press release revealed by Selection in March.
“The well-being of forged and crew on our productions is all the time a prime precedence. The manufacturing was in full compliance with all security pointers and guild protocols,” the assertion learn. “It’s not unusual for drama sequence to have complicated shoots, and COVID protocols add an extra layer. We preserve an open line of communication with all of the guilds, together with SAG-AFTRA. There have been by no means any formal inquiries raised.”
