Season 2 of Euphoria is well underway, and fans are absolutely living for the drama.
However, some viewers have criticised the show, saying Zendaya doesn’t appear enough.
The actress, 25, plays Rue Bennett, who is a drug addict and the protagonist of the high school series.
The second season of the wildly popular HBO show has thrown everything at us for far, including family rows, friendship fallouts and scandalous hook-ups.
In conversation with Entertainment Weekly about whether Rue should have more screen time in the new episodes, Zendaya said: ‘It was important for certain characters who we didn’t really get to see much of last season having more time to get to know them and explore their characters.’
She added: ‘But it’s kind of also Rue as an unreliable narrator, in the sense that she’s just trying to skate by without people noticing that she’s doing what she’s doing, and trying not to get caught.’
Episode five of the series – titled Stand Still Like the Hummingbird – addresses some of those viewer concerns, with many now calling for Zendaya to receive a second Emmy for her powerful performance.
‘We don’t ever leave Rue and what she’s dealing with,’ she said.
‘We’re with her the whole time. There’s not much internal dialogue, and unlike the other episodes where there’s always an opening, ours just kind of starts immediately with violence. We just jump right into it.
‘I think we always knew that that would take up an entire episode and thus, once you hit that point, you have to, after that, pick up the pieces of what happens from there, and where Rue goes.’
Despite the chaos that surrounds her character’s life, The Greatest Showman star remains hopeful that what viewers see on TV will impact how they act in the real world.