According to Cheat Sheet, during an appearance on “The A24 Podcast” with fellow actor Simon Rex, “Euphoria” breakout Angus Cloud shared that the show’s creator, Sam Levinson, actually encouraged him to be less prepared. As Cloud recalled, he asked a scene partner, during an acting class, “What am I supposed to be taking away from this? What should I be learning?” but he couldn’t get a clear answer from her, which left the fledgling performer feeling even more confused than when he started.
As Cloud admitted, “I didn’t know what to take away or what I was supposed to be paying attention to and things. And then, at one point, Sam, the director of ‘Euphoria,’ he told me one day, he was like, ‘Yo, did you rehearse this scene? And I was like, ‘A little bit.’ And he was like, ‘Don’t do it.'” As far as Levinson was concerned, Fez’s interactions with characters such as Maude Apatow’s Lexi or Zendaya’s Rue were stronger when Cloud didn’t try so hard to make everything perfect, and simply let them breathe.
Despite being mega-famous as a result of the hit show, Cloud maintains, as he told InStyle, “I consider myself a regular person, you feel me? Nothing special.” He has no interest in fame and is just taking each day as it comes — similar, in fact, to Fez.
