Who Performs Fezco on ‘Euphoria’? 5 Issues to Know About Angus Cloud

A breakout star. Since his first look on Euphoria followers have been dying to see — and know — extra of Angus Cloud‘s Fezco, and creator Sam Levinson has granted their want.

The primary episode of Season 2 was centered across the drug supplier and his uncommon childhood and Cloud is able to present much more of his character’s backstory. “I’m excited for y’all to see how he sort of comes out of his laborious shell just a little bit and he sort of exposes his softer aspect,” the Oakland native informed GQ in January 2022.

Within the season premiere, Euphoria followers realized that Fez began dealing medicine at age 10 as his grandmother’s helper. He needed to take over her illicit enterprise after she fell unwell.

“You see just a little little bit of his innocence and also you see that he’s sort of been pressured into this life, however he’s … nonetheless a child like everybody else,” Cloud continued. “He is perhaps a yr older, however he needed to act like an grownup from such a younger age. However his interior child continues to be in there and also you get to see it come out barely.”

Fez’s gentle aspect has been notably seen throughout his budding romance with Lexi, performed by Maude Apatow. Since their dialog on the New 12 months’s Eve get together within the premiere, which noticed Fez reward Lexi as cool and fearless and inspired her to cease doubting herself, Euphoria has been teasing a connection between the 2 seemingly reverse characters.

“She’s fairly, she’s good, she’s variety,” Cloud informed Bustle in January about why he thinks Fez would go for the bookish, quiet theater child. “I don’t suppose he obtained a ‘sort.’ He obtained a sort for fairly, good, and good.”

Whereas Fez helped Lexi really feel extra assured onscreen, the North Hollywood actor credit Apatow for permitting him to share his vulnerable side as an actor. “I like working with Maude — she’s the very best. We at all times had a good time each time we get to work collectively. She’s hilarious. She cracks me up,” Cloud informed Complicated in January 2022 “You gotta really feel protected and cozy to form of open up. I at all times really feel like that round her, so it’s not too troublesome.”

Fez’s emergence as a fan favourite — and Cloud’s standing because the present’s new heartthrob — are doubly shocking contemplating he wasn’t presupposed to make it by the primary season.

“I used to be presupposed to die in season 1,” the mannequin confessed to GQ following the present’s Los Angeles premiere. “I suppose the character of Fezco was [never meant to stick around]. I don’t even understand how. I by no means noticed that script.”

In truth, it was costar Jacob Elordi (who performs Nate) who broke the information to Cloud about his character’s authentic destiny. “It was someday once we had been filming the pilot that I believe Jacob informed me,” Cloud defined.

He continued: “It by no means ended up taking place. I believe that they appreciated what I did and they also determined to maintain me alive and let me rock. I don’t understand how I used to be going out, however hopefully I might’ve gone out like a G.”

Euphoria season 2 airs on HBO and HBO Max Sundays at 9 p.m. ET. Hold scrolling for 5 issues you should know concerning the actor: