'We wanted to show how intimate a text exchange can feel,' says the creator of 'Euphoria'
Barbie Ferreira as Kat Hernandez, whose transformation is a central element of"Euphoria's" third episode,"Made You Look."
We spoke to Levinson about deconstructing the teen melodrama, the almost parental anxiety of watching adolescent characters on screen, and the remarkable intimacy of texting.Often, voice-over narration can become an overbearing technique. How did you ensure that it felt fresh and not old-fashioned? Maybe to a certain extent, but I tend to work from a more emotional place than that. I tend not to approach things intellectually at first. Maybe after the fact i can look at it and see ultimately what it’s doing. I start with the characters and their inner lives. Particularly this show, which is all about subjective experience. I allow that experience to guide the story.
Part of what was interesting was the idea that Kat had a life online in which she was extremely popular, and a life in school and with her friends in which she wasn’t. And that her creativity was siloed, and something that only her online fans knew about.
There’s those moments, I think, when you’re growing up, you’re young, and you go, “[Expletive] it, I’m going to be who I am.” ... Those shifts in growing up, I remember them very viscerally. And the nervousness that precedes it. In that scene where she’s in the dressing room, I think Barbie [Ferreira, who plays Kat] does such an incredible job. Without any lines, you can feel the insecurity and desire for confidence, and then actual confidence, and then another flash of insecurity.
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