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(Of course she hasn’t - not when everyone from Lena Dunham to Ryan Murphy is knocking on your door for TV work.) “Everyone in the theater department hated me, but I really wanted to do a good job.” “It was loosely inspired by my high school play that I produced,” she told the magazine, noting that she hasn’t really done live theater since then. Going even further, The King of Staten Island actress revealed that the entire play storyline was semi-plucked from her own theatrical history. Despite this, though, Apatow admitted that her episode, in particular, was more of a “semi-collaboration” with the frequent director. Since its start in 2019, Euphoria creator Sam Levinson has controversially upheld a rather infamous reputation as the show’s sole writer.

“There were a lot of audience shots to consider Sam had to make sure that the shots in the play connected to real memories and they had to be perfectly timed and interwoven.”īut the real kicker came later. “It took a long time to film that sequence because it was so complicated,” she said about her experience shooting the play. In a recent interview with Variety, Apatow reflected on her spotlight episode - wittily titled “The Theater and Its Double” - admitting that it was both fun and challenging to film. And if that wasn’t meta enough for you already: the play-within-a-show was partially inspired by a play Maude Apatow (the actress who plays Lexi) put on in her actual high school theater program. It all makes for a thoroughly enjoyable episode of Euphoria (the season’s best, if you ask me), cleverly taking advantage of its hyper-meta conceit to comment on Euphoria as a whole. Taking matters into her own hands, the long-sidelined sister of main character (and recent best-friend-cum-boyfriend-stealer) Cassie steps into the spotlight as she takes on the role of writer, director, and star for a huge school play based on her own life, as well as those of her sister and friends - all of whom conveniently have had more attention paid to them in past episodes of this popular HBO series. In the seventh episode of Euphoria’s increasingly popular second season, Lexi Howard, once a side character, finally takes center stage.

Lexi euphoria