Rue Bennett, played by Zendaya with melancholy and flashes of genuine joy, is fresh out of rehab, and is much more interested in her new best friend, Jules Vaughn (Hunter Schafer), than in staying sober. "Euphoria" is narrated by a particular teen in trouble.
Rue from euphoria naked series#
But it would be embarrassing to watch in almost any setting, mostly because, despite a promising young cast, "Euphoria" is banal and derivative and worse than that: It's a series designed to profit off misplaced panic about teenagers.
"Euphoria" is, in fact, incredibly awkward to watch at the office because of the sheer amount of nudity it contains - some of it in the form of straight-up pornography. “To me, when I watch it, it’s just another scene.HBO's new drama "Euphoria," which debuted Sunday, got the best publicity it could have asked for last week in the form of a Hollywood Reporter story that detailed the show's depictions of "graphic nudity, violence and drug use among young people," and asked in its headline "How Much Teen Sex and Drugs Is Too Much?" “Because of my background and because of what I do for a living, I don’t find anything to be particularly shocking,” she said. I just thought it was kind of a humorous way to get into their world, and at the same time let their tangents guide the narrative of it.”Īs for Blumenthal, the sequence didn’t faze her. “So, being able to look at the background of a photo - being able to spot a medieval sword in the background - and what that can mean in terms of your own personal safety. “I wanted to get an insight into how young people break down imagery, and look beyond the obvious,” Levinson said. Plus, confidence in the ethics of the process allowed series creator and the episode’s writer-director, Sam Levinson, whom Blumenthal praised for his thoughtfulness with regard to the series’ sexual messaging, to focus on the broader meaning of Rue’s teachable moment. “‘How is this going to be used?’ ‘How is my information going to be used?’ ‘Am I going to be identified?’ … It’s really helpful to have one person to field all of these questions who’s informed about how the process works - all the different legal aspects - who can talk with the lawyer on the show if there’s any questions. “Whenever you’re doing anything like this, there are often a lot of questions,” she explained.
In this case, Blumenthal said, having an intimacy coordinator on hand made certain that the men whose penises would have a star turn knew exactly what they were getting into. HBO has been among the industry’s leaders in hiring intimacy coordinators like Blumenthal to ensure that sex on screen is safe and comfortable for performers while achieving the production’s artistic goals. Though the subject matter is salacious, the stakes are serious. RELATED: ‘Euphoria’ creator Sam Levinson isn’t interested in following the rules » (Over the entire eight-episode season, Blumenthal said, the production collected more than 240 nudity riders, though not all of the associated images made it into the finished version.) Though Blumenthal doesn’t remember the exact number of photographer-models recruited, the series received submissions from at least 34 participants, based on a rough count of the images in Sunday’s episode, aptly titled “Made You Look.” Each contributor was asked to include “a variety of photos” for the “Euphoria” art department to choose from in creating the look of both Rue’s presentation and Maddy’s scroll through Nate’s phone.
0 kommentar(er)
