My Day With Angus Cloud: The ‘Euphoria’ Star Was Widely Loved, but Misunderstood
01.08.2023 - 04:37
/ variety.com
Selome Hailu When I met Angus Cloud last summer, he was still adjusting to his life as the 24-year-old fan favorite of HBO’s then-second-biggest series of all time after “Game of Thrones.” Moving so quickly from being a waiter to starring in “Euphoria” would have driven anyone else to madness, trying to devise fervent strategies for making it all last. But on the day I grabbed dessert with him, all Cloud wanted was to buy the baseball cap worn by the ice cream parlor employees. Getting to know Cloud, who died on Monday at age 25, was the funniest, strangest experience of my career.
As a journalist, my work on each story is meant to end on the day of publication; my subjects are not my friends, and the impact of my writing on their reputations is for the world to decide. But Cloud made that detachment difficult for me. He was widely loved, but equally misunderstood, and over the past year, I’ve found myself agonizing when people get him wrong.
Viewers took Cloud’s blunt, low-key demeanor as a free pass to label him as identical to Fezco, the drug dealer he played on “Euphoria.” But he was an actor inhabiting a role, and beyond that, a full person. Regardless of his demons, which are still coming to light, his soul was on full display to the people who approached him with genuine curiosity. I’ll admit that I was initially less than thrilled when I was assigned to write about Cloud.
Though I admired his work on “Euphoria,” and didn’t buy into the chatter that he was just like his character, I couldn’t figure out who he was. His previous interviews featured one-word answers that I didn’t know how to turn into a 2,000-word cover story, and I wasn’t sure how I’d manage to get him to open up. So I reached out to people I
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