Dominic Fike says he was high during several of his Euphoria scenes
The Euphoria actor says creator Sam Levinson hired a "sober coach" to stay with him on the set: 'It did not work."
Musician and actor Dominic Fike joined the cast of HBO’s Euphoria for its second season last year, playing Elliot, a new character who quickly develops a complicated relationship with both Zendaya’s character Rue, and Hunter Schafer’s Jules. When Elliot is first introduced, it’s while taking drugs with Rue—which, Fike revealed in a recent Apple Music interview, was closer to method acting than he, or the show’s creators, would have liked it to be.
“I was a drug addict and coming on to a show that’s, you know, mainly about drugs, is very difficult,” Fike told interviewer Zane Lowe this week, as part of a wide-ranging interview, revealing that series creator Sam Levinson hired a sobriety coach to be with him while he was on the show’s set. “It did not work,” Fike added.