THE RUNDOWN
- Euphoria’s Barbie Ferreira opened up about her decision not to return to the show for season 3 after announcing her exit in 2022.
- She said “it wasn’t dramatic,” and was the result of a series of conversations.
- Ferreira didn’t want to be a background character and said she’d rather be in small-budget indie films “than kind of be a second thought.”
As Euphoria season 3 starts up, Barbie Ferreira is reflecting on her choice to leave the show. During her appearance on the Not Skinny But Not Fat podcast, she shared the real reason she didn’t want to reprise her role as Kat Hernandez, revealing it “wasn’t dramatic.” The actress announced her exit from the series in 2022 after its second season.
“In fact, it was kind of the opposite of dramatic where it was like long process of like being like, ‘I don’t know if this is it for me,’” she explained. “And then having conversations with people and us trying to figure out how to make Kat like a fully fleshed-out character. And it just wasn’t going anywhere. So I just think I truly was just like, ‘I think since we can’t find anything, and we can’t land on anything, I’m like, let me just go, like, let me just go do my thing.’ Because it’s a long time and you can’t leave.”
She added, “I don’t need to be on the biggest TV show on earth if I’m not acting, you know? So I’m like, I would rather do an indie movie where I’m acting, I’m flexing my muscles, I’m being creatively asked to do things rather than kind of sitting around to be like a background character. I don’t know. And some people are like, ‘I would do that.’ I’m like, ‘Good for you.’ If you want to be a background character for nine months, that’s totally fine and cool. But I was like, I want to do other stuff. I want to produce like indie cinema. I don’t have time to do it.”
Ferreira’s latest film, Faces of Death, was released on April 10.
“I do indie movies that literally are made on a shoestring budget, but it’s cool and like real stories,” she said. “And I’d rather that than kind of be a second thought.”
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