Although “Euphoria” will 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 idea what’s going on” with the upcoming season.
“You can literally ask the entire cast,” she told “Call Her Daddy” host Alex Cooper. “The real tea is that a lot has happened.”
Schafer, who plays Jules in the hit HBO series, cried as she thought about her co-star Angus Cloud – who died in July 2023 at the age of 25 – and producer Kevin Turen, who died in November that year.
“I think everyone feels a certain sense of anticipation when we have to do Season 3,” Schafer said. “Obviously I’m still struggling with what happened and losing people that we really loved and were part of this family and everything. If we go back, it will be difficult.”
She continued: “I think there’s a world where we can channel that into a nice season 3 – if it should happen, but I think that shit really fooled everyone.”
Elsewhere in the interview, Schafer revealed that she initially kept her “Euphoria” audition a secret, believing she might not be cut out for an acting career.
“I really wasn’t sure if I was going to do it because, 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 colder side of Christianity,” she was still nervous about telling her parents what she would have to do in the opening episode of “Euphoria.” (Her father, Mac Schafer, is a pastor and her mother, Katy Schafer, is a youth minister.)
“There’s a whole pastor’s daughter trope. And it gets a little hard,” she shared. “When I had to tell my parents, ‘In the first episode I have anal sex with a 45-year-old and cut myself in the arm,’ my first thought was, ‘Okay, they should tell their council’ that their child comes on TV, and their congregation, who are just little old nice white Christian people from the south, are going to watch this TV show and see me fuck. I still feel bad because that’s something they still have to deal with.”
Schafer, who appeared as an unknown actor in “Euphoria,” has since skyrocketed to worldwide 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 said Zendaya helped her navigate this transition to fame, adding that her “Euphoria” co-star “is to this day one of my best friends in the world.”
“Luckily she already had some experience with fame. We were very 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 of this.”
Listen to Schafer’s full interview on the The ‘Call Her Daddy’ podcast here.