Although “Euphoria” is set to begin filming its long-delayed third season in January 2025, Hunter Schafer admitted during an interview on the “Call Her Daddy” podcast that she has “no fucking idea what’s going on” with the upcoming season.
“You can ask literally all of the cast,” she said to “Call Her Daddy” host Alex Cooper. “The real tea is that a lot has happened.”
Schafer, who plays Jules on the hit HBO series, teared up while remembering her co-star Angus Cloud — who died at the age of 25 in July 2023 — as well as producer Kevin Turen, who died in November of that year.
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“I think everyone feels a certain sense of anticipation for if we are supposed to do Season 3,” Schafer said. “Obviously I’m still coming to qualms about what’s happened and losing people that we really loved and were a part of this family and everything. If we do go back, that’s going to be tough.”
She continued: “I think there’s a world in which we can channel that into making ita beautiful Season 3— if it is supposed to happen, but I think that shit really threw everyone for a loop.”
Elsewhere in the interview, Schafer revealed that she initially kept her “Euphoria” audition a secret, believing that she may not be cut out for a career in acting.
“I really wasn’t sure that I was going to do it, because once again, I didn’t think acting was my calling or anything,” she said. “It’s not my plan. It wasn’t my plan.”
Another reason Schafer kept the audition to herself was because of her Christian upbringing. Although she says her church was “on the chiller side of Christianity,” she was still nervous about telling her parents what she would have to do in “Euphoria’s” opening episode. (Her father, Mac Schafer, is a pastor and her mother, Katy Schafer, is a youth minister.)
“There’s this whole pastor’s daughter trope. And it gets kind of tough,” she shared. “When I had to tell my parents, ‘In the first episode, I’m having anal sex with a 45-year-old and cutting myself in the arm,’ my first thought is like, okay, they have to tell their congregation that their kid’s going to be on TV, and then their congregation, who are just little old nice white Christian people from the south, are going to watch this TV show and see me getting fucked. I still do feel bad because that’s something they still have to deal with.”
Schafer, who entered “Euphoria” as an unknown actor, has since skyrocketed to global recognition. After playing Jules on the HBO original drama, the 25-year-old has starred in “The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes,” “Kinds of Kindness” and Neon’s horror thriller “Cuckoo,” which premieres Aug. 9.
Schafer mentioned that Zendaya helped her navigate this transition to fame, adding that her “Euphoria” co-star is “one of my best friends in the world to this day.”
“Thankfully, she had had some experience with fame already. We were really close by the time we really fell in love with each other as friends in the first season,” Schafer said. “She was able to help me through all that.”
Listen to Schafer’s full interview on the “Call Her Daddy” podcast here.
