Storm Reid of ‘Euphoria’ Leaves Show After Long Production Delay

The 21-year-old When They See Us and Don’t Let Go star introduced over the weekend that each time Season 3 of the HBO sequence lastly makes it to air, she is going to not be a part of the solid.

Whereas attending the Governor Awards on Sunday, Reid confirmed to Rotten Tomatoes that her character, Gia Bennett, wouldn’t be showing in Season 3 of Euphoria.

“I’m very excited for season 3,” she instructed the film rating website, as reported by JustJared. “Sadly, Gia’s not returning to the third season, however I’m so, so indebted to the solid and the crew of that present [and] to HBO.

Reid went on to notice her time on Euphoria as “particular,” including, “I’m so glad that that’s part of my legacy and that I used to be part of such a cultural phenomenon. I can’t wait to see what season 3 has in retailer.”

Reid taking her depart from Euphoria is the most recent chapter within the present’s long-delayed return.

Season Two of the HBO hit drama accomplished its run in February 2022. A 3rd season was confirmed to be on its means that very same month with manufacturing beginning later that 12 months.

Sadly, the tragic and sudden deaths of Angus Cloud, who performed Fez, and Euphoria’s govt producer Kevin Turin, induced manufacturing to be postponed indefinitely. The 2023 Author’s Strike additional stretched the span of time during which the present might need began to return collectively once more.

Again in July of this 12 months, The Hollywood Reporter confirmed that filming on Season 3 would lastly start in January 2025 – greater than three years after its Season 2 run, which consisted of 8 episodes. To make up for time misplaced, showrunner Sam Levenson and HBO deliberate to push the story away from its highschool origins, with rumors of Season 3 being arrange as a “movie noir,” as Esquire reported.

As of at present, nothing official confirmed aside from the principal solid – Zendaya, Sydney Sweeney, Jacob Elordi and Hunter Schafer – being formally signed on for Season 3.

With Reid on her means out of Euphoria, actress Nika King will probably be down one daughter ought to the present return.

Again in March, a viral TikTok of King, who performs mom of Rue (Zendaya) and Gia, Leslie Bennett, featured the actress claiming throughout a stand-up set that she couldn’t afford her hire as a result of prolonged pause of the present’s manufacturing.

“Season three is popping out — I don’t f-cking know [when],” King tells the viewers, as The Hollywood Reporter transcribed. “’We want season three!’ B-tch, I want season three! I haven’t paid my hire in six months.”

She then referred to on-screen daughter Zendaya’s packed schedule and her penchant for turning heads at Trend Week.

“And Zendaya’s over in Paris at Trend Week,” King mentioned. “I’m like, b-tch, come house! I would like you! Mama wants you.”

After the TikTok made the media rounds, King reached out to THR to make clear her feedback had been “lighthearted” and never meant to be taken critically.

“I even have just a few movie tasks releasing this 12 months that I’m enthusiastic about,” she revealed. “It’s a blessing to craft a profession in each drama and comedy.”

Including to the continued confusion of the beginning of Euphoria, Season 3 is Zendaya, the present’s largest lead. Again in April, the Challengers actress instructed Variety that, regardless of sure studies, she wasn’t “in cost” of whether or not or not the present would proceed.

“I don’t really know a lot about what is going on,” Zendaya mentioned. “I don’t fairly know precisely what the season goes to seem like, however I do know that the time bounce is going on and I do know it’s necessary, as a result of there’s solely a lot highschool drama you’ll be able to take care of.”

She did, on the very least, appear able to go each time the manufacturing kicked up once more.

“It is going to be fascinating to see and perceive these characters outdoors of the context of highschool ,and the way all of the stuff that we noticed in highschool impacts the form of maturity they’ve,” she defined. “I’ll have an interest to see what occurs too.”

Put together your self for when and if Euphoria returns for Season 3 by streaming the primary two seasons, in addition to the 2 particular one-off episodes, on MAX.