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Barbie Ferreira EXITS Euphoria Ahead of Season 3
Barbie Ferreira thinks Kat simply outgrew her precocious schoolhouse setting.
Seven months the Euphoria star announced she was exiting the HBO bid up of play three—amid rumors she had a falling retired with showrunner Sam Levinson—the 26-year-old is clearing the aerial connected her departure.
"So, for me, erstwhile radical inquire maine astir Season 2, it's usually they travel astatine maine with, like, I was immoderate benignant of unfortunate to Season 2 and I'm ever like, ‘No, it's okay, promise. It's good,'" Barbie said during the April 3 occurrence of the Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard podcast, per Variety. "I benignant of got sucked into this play that I ne'er asked to beryllium successful and that I've ne'er talked about."
She added, "I'm of the mindset that if it doesn't exit I'm not going to code it due to the fact that past I'm adding substance to it. It's taken connected a beingness of its own. Don't judge everything you read."
And arsenic for the rumors that she walked disconnected the show's acceptable aft an statement with Sam during play two? According to Barbie, it that didn't happen.
"I really did not locomotion disconnected set," she said. "I did sprain my ankle erstwhile and had to spell get an X-ray. Maybe that's what they mean?" (In February 2022, a root adjacent to accumulation besides denied the rumors of an on-set combat to E! News.)
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Simply put, the histrion didn't deliberation determination was "a place" for Kat to spell moving forward.
"I deliberation determination were places she could person gone," she continued. "I conscionable don't deliberation it would person acceptable into the show. I don't cognize if it was going to bash her justice, and I deliberation some parties knew that. I truly wanted to beryllium capable to not beryllium the abdominous champion friend. I don't privation to play that, and I deliberation they didn't privation that either."
In the show's archetypal season, viewers were introduced to Kat, a precocious schoolhouse pupil who penned erotic instrumentality fabrication and became a part-time dominatrix. But by the 2nd season, fans noted a displacement successful her quality arc that gave her little to bash and included adjacent little surface time.
"I consciousness similar with Season 2 and definite parts of it, I felt was a benignant of a conflict for some parties," she noted. "Sam, me…it was a conflict to find the continuation of her. So that was really truly hurtful watching it and seeing the fans get upset."
In fact, she felt similar she whitethorn person adjacent "overstayed" her welcome.
"For me, I really felt bully to beryllium like, ‘Okay, I get to not interest astir this and we some don't get excessively disquieted astir this,'" Barbie shared. "Because it's exhausting."
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As for the change, Barbie took her champion conjecture connected the writing, saying that Sam writes for "things that helium relates to."
"I don't deliberation helium relates to Kat," she continued. "I similar Kat, truthful I get to spell connected my ain path. At first, I was like, ‘Oh, my God, I'm a flop. I'm a loser.' It truly has been a bully thing."
Last summer, the Unpregnant histrion broke the news that she would beryllium saying farewell to the HBO deed up of its 3rd season.
"After 4 years of getting to embody the astir peculiar and enigmatic character Kat, I'm having to accidental a precise teary-eyed goodbye," she wrote in an August 2022 Instagram Story post. "I anticipation galore of you could spot yourself successful her similar I did, and that she brought you joyousness to spot her travel into the quality she is today."
But fans won't person to hold excessively agelong to spot Barbie connected their screens arsenic not agelong aft revealing her Euphoria exit, she landed her adjacent relation in the upcoming psychological thriller, House of Spoils.
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