The new season of Euphoria features practically the entire original cast, but it has also seen several departures. One of the most talked-about is that of Barbie Ferreira, who played Kat, a young woman who empowered herself by becoming a dominatrix. The actress explained that she left the series because it became evident that there were no storylines that could fit her character. "I don't think there was anywhere for the character to go... I really didn't want to be the fat best friend," Ferreira explained on the Armchair expert podcast. Nevertheless, the actress denied a bad relationship with Levinson and assured that the decision to leave the production was consensual.While it is true that the new season of Euphoria has significant absences, it also has notable additions. One of the most relevant is Rosalía, who plays a character about whom not many details have been given beyond some images in which she appears to be a pole dancer. Another big name is Sharon Stone, who plays a universal studio executive for whom Lexie works.
The five global stars formed in 'Euphoria', the series that returns (and ends) after four years
HBO Max's fiction premieres the third season
BarcelonaWhen Euphoria premiered in 2019, it took the world by surprise. The series, which was an adaptation of an original Israeli title, showed adolescent disillusionment and anguish in a new way thanks to Sam Levinson's stylistic daring and managed to hook adult viewers even though, in principle, they were not the target audience for the production. After a four-year hiatus and voices claiming that the third season would never happen, the HBO Max fiction returns with an installment that is very likely to be the definitive farewell according to the statements of its protagonists. A good part of the cast are now world stars, even though when the series started they were practically unknown. We review the five most outstanding names of , which in its third season will mix drug trafficking, sex, and decadence.Zendaya
Arguably the most famous of the actresses raised on Euphoria, despite the fact that in her case it must be remembered that her career began when she was 13 years old and she was cast to star in a Disney Channel series, Shake it up. In the HBO Max fiction she plays Rue, a teenager addicted to drugs who has been through rehabilitation and has no intention of stopping consuming. In the new season, her self-destructive spiral leads her to act as a mule and transport drugs from Mexico to the United States. The series has earned Zendaya two Emmys for best female drama performer and also a Golden Globe.
The Californian actress is now an unquestionable global star: she can participate in blockbusters like the Spiderman saga –where she met her partner, Tom Holland– and Dune, as well as starring in riskier projects, such as Challengers or The Idol, which premieres in May in Spain. Putting aside her acting qualities, she is also a true fashion icon thanks to her association with stylist Law Roach. Every outfit or dress she wears becomes news. Very careful with her private life, she has already announced that she will take a break from acting once she has released the five projects she has in the pipeline for 2026.
Jacob Elordi
The Australian Jacob Elordi is known for taking acting risks, but his fame began with a saga of romantic comedies from Netflix, The Kissing Booth. Euphoria allowed him to move away from the image of a more conventional teen idol and exploded his popularity. Grandson and son of Basques who emigrated to Australia, Elordi is not content with being one of Hollywood's official heartthrobs. In Sam Levinson's series, he plays Nate, an archetype of the most toxic and harmful masculinity. Since the premiere of Euphoria, Elordi's resume has only grown with films by renowned directors like Sofia Coppola, with whom he filmed Priscilla, or Guillermo del Toro, with whom he has made Frankenstein, a film for which he has received his first Oscar nomination for best supporting actor. He has also starred in controversial films, such as the much-discussed adaptation of Wuthering Heights by Emerald Fennell. Although he is focused on cinema, he has not completely abandoned television with projects like the Australian miniseries The Narrow Road, for which he was nominated for a Golden Globe.
Sydney Sweeney
Sydney Sweeney's lush physique has often led headlines to focus more on her looks than her career as an actress and producer, which is one of the most explosive to emerge since "Euphoria". Her resume includes critically acclaimed series like "The Handmaid's Tale" and "The White Lotus", and box office hits like "Anyone But You", a film she produced that revived classic romantic comedy, and "The Girlfriend", for which a second part is already underway. In 2022, she was double Emmy-nominated thanks to "Euphoria" and "The White Lotus".
In "Euphoria", Sweeney plays Cassie, a teenager desperate to feel loved who has been sexualized from a very young age. In the third season, where the characters are already adults, we find her married to Nate and launching an OnlyFans profile where she shares risqué images. "Cassie is a crazy character. She'll do whatever she can to be famous and make wild decisions, as you'd expect," Sweeney explained at the premiere of the third season.
While continuing to build a superstar career, the actress has become accustomed to any small move she makes being susceptible to generating controversy, whether it's a jeans campaign
or her romantic relationship with Scooter Braun, a music manager and a great enemy of Taylor Swift.
Hunter Schafer
Hunter Schafer was one of the great revelations of the first season of Euphoria. A model before an actress, she is one of the most prominent activists for trans rights in Hollywood. In 2016, when she was 18 years old, she joined a class-action lawsuit against a bill promoted in North Carolina that prevented transgender people from using public restrooms corresponding to their gender identity. The lawsuit led to the repeal of the bill.
In Euphoria Schafer plays the sensitive Jules, a transgender girl who has just moved to East Highland and begins a tortuous relationship with Rue. As the trailer for the new season progresses, now an adult, she lives as a sugar baby, that is, she has romantic and sentimental relationships with older men who financially support her. The popularity that the series has brought her has allowed her to participate in films such as Kinds of Kindness, by Yorgos Lanthimos, and The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes. Looking ahead, she will be one of the protagonists of Tom Ford's new project, Cry to Heaven.
On a personal level, the actress made headlines in 2024 when she confirmed that she had a romantic relationship with Rosalía for a few months, with whom she still maintains a friendship today.
Maude Apatow
The cast's nepo baby. She is the daughter of director and producer Judd Apatow and actress Leslie Mann. With this background, it's normal for her to have started her acting career with appearances in many of her father's comedies, just like her younger sister, Iris Apatow, who is also an actress. Beyond her acting career, last year she debuted as a director and producer with the film Poetic license, a feature film starring her mother.
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plays Lexie, Cassie's studious and responsible sister, although as she showed in the second season, she is also capable of having a very bad temper. In fact, she caused an authentic cataclysm when she directed a play at school that was basically a revenge against her classmates and friends. In this new season, the character already has one foot in Hollywood and is trying to make her way in the audiovisual industry. One of the unknowns of this new installment is how Sam Levinson will have resolved the relationship between Lexie and Fez, the casual drug dealer played by Angus Cloud, an actor who died in July 2023 at the age of 25.