Colman Domingo is in his best professional moment: he is the first Afro-Latin actor nominated for an Oscar for his work in Rustin, the biopic about gay rights activist Bayard Rustin produced by the Obama couple. In the middle of the campaign for the best actor statuette, however, he does not distance himself from his most notable television work, Euphoria, and has explained why Sam Levinson’s drama takes so long to produce a third season.
“Sam is a person who writes and rewrites and writes and writes again, because I think he fights with what is important,” he explained to GQ. As an author, Levinson’s obsession is to respond “to the ills of the world” and the “existential question” of where we are as a society. In this dramatic take on adolescence, he plays one of the few adult figures: Ali, a former drug addict who helps Rue overcome her addiction.
Levinson’s meticulous approach to Euphoria is present in both the writing process and the subsequent filming. It is worth remembering the controversy that arose around the second season over the conditions during the recording of some scenes, especially the episode about the play: by improvising how I wanted the shots and exploring the audiovisual potential in situ, marathon days of up to 17 hours, with accusations against Levinson for lack of organization and planning.
With Domingo’s Oscar nomination, the cast of Euphoria is at an unbeatable stage. And Zendaya sweeps the box office with the second part of Dune by Denis Villeneuve with Timothée Chalamet; Sydney Sweeney is credited with resurrecting the romantic comedy in movie theaters with Anyone But You opposite Glen Powell; Elordi is forging a career as an auteur actor after playing Elvis Presley in Sofia Coppola’s Priscilla and portraying beauty in Emerald Fennell’s Saltburn; and Hunter Schafer was in the successful prequel to The Hunger Games.
HBO, at the moment, has scheduled the third season of Euphoria for 2025, which implies that at least three years will have passed since the broadcast of the second, released in January 2022, which in turn took two and a half years to produce. , the initial season having been broadcast between June and August 2019.
