‘Euphoria’ S2 Review: A Fearless Zendaya Shines Again In Another Vibrantly Alive Season

cherry on top of the “Euphoria” craze. But before adult film actress-turned-HBO Max ingenue Chloe Cherry began stealing scenes as “Faye,” opposite Emmy winner Zendaya, 25, in the newest season of the illicit substance- and sex-fueled drama, she starred in “Euphoria” parody pornography. “My friend and I, who’s also an adult movie star, we were just both huge fans of the show and we thought that that one scene [with Rue and Jules] was just so beautiful,” Cherry, 24, told Nylon of the mock erotica — which was inspired by a steamy exchange between Zendaya’s character, Rue, and Hunter Schafer’s Jules. “When you’re making a porn parody, the best way to make them is scenes like that, where they’re already insinuating that sex is about to happen,” Cherry continued. “So that’s usually what people would want to see in terms of a porn parody.

Euphoria star Sydney Sweeney, who plays “Cassie” on the buzzy HBO drama, heads into the series’ second season in a comfortable place, even as her controversial scenes on the show have raised her profile in what could be uncomfortable ways.

Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorNetflix shares — after dropping 30% over the past week — rose more than 4% in after-hours trading Wednesday after Bill Ackman, head of the Pershing Square Capital Management hedge fund, disclosed that his firm had bought more than $1 billion worth of the streamer’s stock.Starting last Friday (Jan. 21) and over the next several days, Pershing acquired more than 3.1 million shares of Netflix, “making us a top-20 shareholder in the company,” Ackman wrote in a letter to the hedge fund’s investors.Click here to sign up for Variety’s free Strictly Business newsletter covering earnings, financial news, and more.The hedge fund scooped up the stake in Netflix after the stock took a nosedive following its fourth-quarter 2021 earnings report, in which it forecast a much smaller-than-expected subscriber gain in the first quarter of 2022 — fueling investor fears that the category leader was losing steam.

Sydney Sweeney has some thoughts about stripping down for the camera.

Paging Dr. McDreamy! Euphoria fans are clamoring for Patrick Dempsey to make a cameo on the teen drama after learning more about Eric Dane‘s character, Cal Jacobs.

A supportive set. Sydney Sweeney described her experience approaching Euphoria creator Sam Levinson about cutting some of her character Cassie’s nude scenes.

Batgirl movie.Aquino will portray the first ever transgender character in a live-action DC Comics film, Alysia Yeoh, the best friend of Batgirl.Yeoh is a groundbreaking character, having been the first major trans character in a comic book at the time of her debut in 2011, Daily Beast reports.Leslie Grace, who will star as Barbara Gordon — aka Batgirl — in the film, previously teased Aquino’s casting on her Instagram story earlier this month.Sharing a photo of the characters crossing a street and holding hands, Grace wrote: “Barbara and Alysia

Euphoria creator Sam Levinson for allowing her to cut nude scenes from season two.The actor, who plays Cassie Howard in the HBO series, said Levinson originally wrote more nude scenes for her character in the second season – which she challenged without any pushback.Speaking to the Independent, Sweeney said: “Sam [Levinson] is amazing. There are moments where Cassie was supposed to be shirtless and I would tell Sam, ‘I don’t really think that’s necessary here.’ He was like, ‘OK, we don’t need it’.“I’ve never felt like Sam has pushed it on me or was trying to get a nude scene into an HBO show.

Sydney Sweeney is opening up about her nude scenes in the HBO series Euphoria and how they led to people not taking her seriously as an actress at first.

Sydney Sweeney has been garnering attention from her roles in such HBO series as “The White Lotus” and “Euphoria”, earning raves for her role as Cassie in the latter series.

Euphoria‘s boasting a different kind of high for HBO this week with the third and latest episode continuing its growing streak.

Leslie Grace, who will play, leaked the news on social media in a not-so-subtle way.Grace posted a picture on Instagram showing her and and Aquino's characters on the set of the film holding hands and crossing the street.

Zack Sharf Sydney Sweeney is championing “Euphoria” creator Sam Levinson for allowing her to cut out nude scenes from the Emmy-winning HBO series’ second season. Speaking to The Independent, Sweeney said Levinson wrote in a lot more nude scenes for her character in Season 2 that she was able to remove without any challenge from the creator. Sweeney stars in the high school drama series as Cassie.“Sam [Levinson] is amazing,” Sweeney said.

Euphoria fans have praised the HBO series for offering an look at the high school experience, but many have noted that Sydney Sweeney, who plays Cassie, seems to have a disproportionately large amount of nudity in her scenes. Put bluntly: She's topless quite a bit.Addressing this pattern in a new interview, Sweeney gave some important context for how the show approaches those scenes.

“Batgirl” is breaking new ground for the comic book movie.

HBO Max’s feature film “Batgirl” announced that it casted Ivory Aquino as Alysia Yeoh, a bartender and the best friend of on-screen heroine Gordon.Both Yeoh and Aquino are transgender, marking a historical step for LGBTQIA+ representation as the first live-action feature film for DC Comics franchise that will feature a trans character.She’s slated to perform on-screen along with Leslie Grace, Brendan Fraser, Michael Keaton, J.K. Simmons and Jacob Scipio for the upcoming film adaptation, based on the comic created by Gail Simone with art by Ardian Syaf.While details of the movie are still hushed, Deadline reported that the movie will focus on Batgirl’s battle with the villain Firefly, played by Fraser.

Ivory Aquino has joined the cast of Batgirl.

Adam B. Vary Senior Entertainment WriterBarbara Gordon has officially found her roommate.Ivory Aquino (“Tales of the City,” “When We Rise”) has been cast in the HBO Max feature film “Batgirl” as Alysia Yeoh, the best friend of the titular superhero, a.k.a.