Barbie Ferreira Shares Purpose Why She Is not Returning For ‘Euphoria’ Season 3

The actress — who starred as Kat on the HBO sequence — additionally addresses rumors that she “walked off” the set of Euphoria after clashing with Sam Levinson, and shares the place she stands together with her former costars.

Barbie Ferreira is opening up about her determination to depart Euphoria after two seasons.

Whereas showing on Wednesday’s episode of The Viall Information podcast, the actress mirrored on her exit from the HBO drama forward of Season 3, and likewise addressed rumors that she “walked off” the set of Euphoria as a consequence of alleged stress with showrunner Sam Levinson.

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“I feel it was very mutual so it wasn’t simply my alternative,” stated Ferreira, 24, who performed Kat on Euphoria and revealed her departure in 2022. “After Season 2, I feel … there was simply nowhere to go, and I feel as a substitute of me form of lingering round for 9 months, I feel it was greatest for each of us that we simply form of ended it there.”

“In fact, it is laborious. I really like Euphoria. I really like Kat. Kat means the world to me. I spent so a few years pouring all the pieces into her,” she continued.

“However you do not wish to smash an excellent factor,” Ferreira added, once more stating that the choice was mutual. “Everybody determined there was nowhere to go and that is laborious, clearly. … Once more, with performing, issues occur on a regular basis, and it’s important to have a thick pores and skin and simply make the proper selections for you and your profession.”

The Unpregnant star introduced her exit from Euphoria in August 2022, just a few months after the Season 2 finale the earlier February.

On the time, she shared the information on her Instagram Tales.

“After 4 years of attending to embody essentially the most particular and enigmatic character Kat, I’m having to say a really teary eyed goodbye,” she wrote in her share. Her message was accompanied by an authentic drawing of “Thunder Equipment Kat” she described as her “first Kate fan artwork,” created by her cast-mate Hunter Schafer.

“I hope a lot of you could possibly see your self in her like I did and that she introduced you pleasure to see her journey into the character she is as we speak,” Ferreira’s message continued. “I put all my care and love into her and I hope you guys might really feel it.”

Reviews surfaced in February 2022 that Ferreira and Euphoria creator Levinson clashed throughout filming on the present’s second season, with The Every day Beast reporting Ferreira stormed off the set at one level. Ferreira herself stated these claims weren’t true in an Insider interview a month later.

Whereas talking with Viall, Ferreira once more denied the rumors.

“I by no means walked off set, there was by no means something like that,” she claimed. “That was a complete factor … I completely by no means did that. You can ask the a whole lot of individuals [who] had been there day-after-day.”

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Regardless of her exit, Ferreira — who was selling her new movie Bob Trevino Likes It — shared that she stays shut with a number of of her former Euphoria costars, noting that they got here to help her in her Broadway play Cult of Love, which ran from November 2024 till February 2025.

“I noticed Hunter the opposite day, I noticed Maude the opposite day, Sydney got here to see my play,” she stated of Schafer, Maude Apatow, and Sydney Sweeney. “So I imply they’re all so busy.”

“I imply, I have been out of city for, like, eight months, so I am like, whoever is on the town, we at all times attempt to see one another they usually got here to help the play, which was actually candy,” she added.

Ferreira’s feedback on Wednesday’s episode of The Viall Information come amid manufacturing on Euphoria Season 3.

After months of hypothesis as as to whether or not the sequence would even return for a 3rd season as its forged members’ careers have blown up, HBO introduced in July 2024 that manufacturing on Season 3 was set to start in January 2025. The community listed Zendaya, Sweeney, Schafer, and Jacob Elordi as authentic forged members who can be returning, per The Hollywood Reporter on the time.

Together with coping with delays, the present additionally confronted tragedy after star Angus Cloud — who performed Fezco O’Neil on the HBO drama — died from an unintended overdose in July 2023 on the age of 25.

Throughout her look on The Viall Information, Ferreira mirrored on Cloud’s devastating passing.

“I do not assume I’ve ever been by something like that. All of us had been simply actually affected by it,” she shared, including that she was in Kentucky when the information broke. “It is an excellent disgrace. Angus was the good man, the craziest dude, the quantity of tales…I take into consideration him quite a bit.”

“He was unbelievable,” Ferreira stated. “He was a whole sweetheart, character. It is actually, actually tragic. He is so younger. Yeah, it was laborious.”