From on the display to actual life. After their characters had been concerned in a love triangle on Euphoria, it wasn’t lengthy earlier than Dominic Fike and Hunter Schafer took issues to a different degree off display.
Earlier than Fike joined season 2 of the hit HBO collection, the musician dated Diana Silvers in 2021. Schafer, for her half, was beforehand linked to Massima Want in late 2020.
Forward of the sophomore season’s debut in January 2022, Schafer and her costar Zendaya revealed that they weren’t instantly on board with Fike’s character changing into a part of their onscreen love story.
“There have been a number of conversations over time about the place the present was going to go and what it was going to evolve into, and I bear in mind when Yana Grebenyuk Sam [Levinson] first sort of talked concerning the thought of this Elliot character, I wasn’t feeling it — as somebody who ships ‘Guidelines’ to the bitter finish,” the Marvel star advised Selection on the time.
Schafer, for her half, famous that it wasn’t till she met the musician that her opinion modified. “I feel I used to be in the same boat to Z after I first heard about this Elliot boy,” the mannequin added. “However, you already know, as we noticed extra of what it introduced into the story and the script, it turned a extra attention-grabbing and thrilling prospect, and as soon as Dom got here on board, he made it a number of enjoyable.”
That very same month, Fike and Schafer sparked relationship hypothesis after they posed collectively on the season 2 purple carpet premiere. The pair had been seen on a number of outings in Los Angeles earlier than they seemingly confirmed their romance with a photograph of them kissing in February 2022.
On display, nevertheless, Fike and Schafer’s characters rapidly bought caught up in a really messy love triangle with Zendaya’s character. Throughout the sophomore season, Jules was initially jealous of Elliot and Rue earlier than she connected with the beginner herself.
“That’s not objectively superb for Rue and Jules’s relationship contemplating that may be dishonest. So yeah, it’s sort of a giant f–king mess,” the New Jersey native advised Leisure Weekly on the time. “I feel Elliot is simply chilling and not likely fascinated by what he’s doing, and I don’t assume his intentions are sick, however it’s actually messy.”
The activist additionally clarified the present’s method to Jules’ sexuality after followers voiced considerations that she was now not a lesbian.
“I don’t assume we’ve ever bothered to even try to label Jules’s sexuality as a result of I feel it’s genuinely as fluid as it may be. She’s nonetheless experimenting, she’s nonetheless studying. It’s unimaginable to place the label on it,” Schafer defined. “I feel that’s a troublesome life lesson folks need to be taught generally. Regardless of having an thought what it is best to need, or what you prefer to for your self to want, want can’t essentially be managed. And there’s a little bit of a contradiction taking place in her head.”
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