Season 2 of Euphoria had fans in a tizzy — did Ashtray (Javon Walton) really die in the finale? What will happen next with Fezco (Angus Cloud) and Lexi (Maude Apatow) and will Maddy (Alexa Demie) and Cassie (Sydney Sweeney) ever make up?!
But there was one big question that viewers wanted to know: why wasn’t Barbie Ferreira, who plays Kat, featured as much this time around? Rumors swirled that she and creator Sam Levinson weren’t on the best of terms, but recently, she spoke out about her role in this past season.
“I think what was hard about season one was that me and Sam were trying to figure out how to continue a storyline that kind of had a beginning, middle and end of sorts. We didn’t want to be redundant,” the 25-year-old told TODAY. “We didn’t want it to be like continuing the camming because I feel like that was a point in time where Kat just accidentally got into the wrong side of the internet for someone her age. And she was exploring herself in ways that maybe wasn’t, and as everyone in ‘Euphoria’ is, as productive. I mean, what is productive as a teenager? But I think it was trying to find a way of showing Kat’s eternal restlessness is always what kind of motivates her. She’s never satisfied with what’s happening around her.”
She continued, “A lot of the characters, it’s kind of this restlessness, whether it be for drugs, or tension, or sex or something. It’s more of like, how do we strip that down because Kat’s confidence at the end of season one wasn’t real. It was more of a projection of what she thought she needed to do to kind of save herself from all the bad things that were happening to her.”
Last season, Kat and Ethan (Austin Abrams) got together, but during season 2, Kat realizes that maybe she isn’t happy with her man after all. So, she tells him she has terminal brain cancer, which is why they have to split — a moment that was pretty uncomfortable.
“Austin was so sweet. He was, like, crying during the scene and I was like, I just feel bad even while doing it because Kat is a very cynical person and she doesn’t know how to confront people and has never been in a situation like this, and also feels bad for not being into someone who is so nice to her,” she recalled.
As for what will happen next with Kat, the TV star isn’t sure! “I actually have no idea,” she said. “I don’t know where to go from here.”
