Zendaya stars as Rue in 'Euphoria'. Image Source: PEOPLE
The trailer for highly anticipated season two of ‘Euphoria’ just dropped in a few hours ago and is slated to release on 9th January 2022. The trailer showcase that season two is going to pick up from the moment they left the first season off. The official synopsis for season 2 of Euphoria reads, “Amidst the intertwining lives in the town of East Highland, 17-year-old Rue must find hope while balancing the pressures of love, loss, and addiction.”
The trailer starts with Rue dragging a suitcase to an AA meeting and later in the trailer the audience gets to see her sponsor asking her what is in the suitcase. Rue says, 'When I first met her, I was just immediately in love', and we see the shots of Jules and she adds, “As soon as I saw her, I was just immediately afraid to lose her”. The audience will meet another drug dealer to whom Rue says that ‘you’re my favorite person''. Then the rest of the cast is also seen dealing with their turmoil and probable storylines with guns, drugs, and a lot of sobbing
The actors who will be reprising their roles from the first season along with three new faces are Zendaya, Hunter Schafer, Nika King, Eric Dane, Angus Cloud, Jacob Elordi, Algee Smith, Sydney Sweeney, Alexa Demie, Barbie Ferreira, Maude Apatow, Javon Walton, Dominic Fike, Storm Reid, Minka Kelly, Demetrius, and Austin Abrams.
According to reports the filming of the second season was supposed to begin in March 2020 but the pandemic forced the cast and crew to put their filming plans to a halt. In the meantime, the creator of the series Sam Levinson came up with two standalone installment episodes that focused on Rue played by Zendaya and Jules played by Hunter Schafer. These two episodes serve as a bridge for the audience from season one’s end to the beginning of season two. These two episodes debuted as Christmas and New Year’s specials late last year.
Sam Levinson had told Variety about the delay, “I suppose one of the few beneficial side effects of this fucked-up year is the distance between season 1 and season 2. It’s really difficult to insulate yourself from the response and write from the same place of creative freedom, because you know what people liked, or didn’t like. I just hope we can continue to explore and stay curious and experiment, so the show can grow in whatever way it does.”
Hunter Schafer who plays Jules on the show shared with IndieWrire earlier this year, “I hope this growth and interrogation of Jules…and what she wants and ultimately finding newer and healthier intimacies in her relationships, which I hope will be more queer and more healthy…I hope that will continue. That’s a really beautiful process and something I want to see more of on TV. Representation-wise, we’re still working on getting trans women who lie on many different ends of the spectrum of conventional beauty and conventional attraction and conventional ways of navigating gender and sexuality. There’s a myriad of ways to do that. And many trans people move through all that in that myriad of ways, including myself.”
Hunter Schafer stars as Jules in 'Euphoria'. Image Source: Cosmopolitan
The creator of the show Sam Levinson has reportedly taken inspiration from his own life for the characters and shared with The Hollywood Reporter, “I just feel like there is such a disconnect between what young people are going through and what everyone else thinks they’re going through. We didn’t want to pull any punches. We didn’t want to make it feel like we were holding anything back or that we are hiding anything.”
Zendaya had also shared that she was excited and thrilled to go back to working with the cast and crew. She said, “I mean the scripts were written and I was just so excited—just to go back home is really what it feels like. But of course, this has all happened and I’m just grateful that I’m in the position I’m in. I can’t complain. I’m very lucky to be safe and healthy and still know that I have a job, Euphoria, that will be there.”
Zendaya in mid-July shared that season two is going to have a huge arc for Rue adding, “We're just kind of experimenting with different tones and going more in-depth with all the characters. Mine, specifically, I mean—it's brutal. This is going to be a tough season. We're, like, one-third of the way through, and I haven't even gotten to the hard stuff yet...It's going to take a lot, but I think Rue deserves that care because I think she is a special character.”
Rue and Jules. Image Source: Entertainment Weekly
In February Storm Reid, who plays Rue’s sister Gia on the show shared, “I have no information, other than my character is supposed to be developing and becoming her own. So I am very excited about that. I feel like this season we'll really get to see who she is outside of just being Rue's little sister. She will really become her own person and her own character and she really is growing up in the show, which I love.”
Another star, Sydney Sweeney who plays Cassie revealed that her character is going to take a dramatic storyline (trailer revealed a snippet of it) and said, “I can tease that, when you ask about season 2, my heart drops. In a you-guys-have-no-idea-what-you’re-going-to-watch way. Cassie really needs to get her shit together. I can’t say anything else. Cassie has a crazy storyline in season 2 that I did not expect. Every time I read a new episode that Sam writes, my jaw is on the ground and I can’t believe this is something coming out of someone’s mind.”
Francesca Orsi, HBO’s EVP of programming has mentioned, "We are so grateful that he chose HBO as the home for this groundbreaking series. We look forward to following these complex characters as their journeys continue through the challenging world they inhabit."
Guess we all will see how the story folds on 9th January 2022!
