When we did about three takes she was like, “OK, my actors have done enough, they’re good now.” She really kept an eye on us and kept us protected, not in the sense that anyone else didn’t want to protect us, but it was her job to overprotect and make sure that we were super comfortable being in the position we were in.īeyond the sex and drugs aspect of the show, what do you want people to take away from Euphoria?
When we got on set, she wouldn’t keep letting them do takes for no reason. Before we even got on set, she would come to our trailers and talk to us about everything we had to do and made sure we felt very comfortable. That was the first time I’ve had an intimacy coordinator on the set. How did that help you with shooting those? The cast had an intimacy coordinator on set. You have some pretty intense sex scenes on the show. We’ll see those feelings come out and what they have to go through. They’ll continue to be tested, and we’ll figure out if he really likes her for the long run. They do really well with the teases, that’s all I can say. It looks really graphic in the scene the way they edited and chopped it up, which is scary as hell, but they’re play-humping and whatever and calling him “McGay.” The way they made it look was very scary I was surprised by the editing. In that scene, he was getting hazed by the frat or whatever, and his drunk frat brothers came in and were fake humping him. McKay has an intense hazing scene in this episode, and there’s been some confusion online about what exactly is happening to him. He really likes this girl, but at the same time he knows her history, and that bothers him. He knows that, so when he’s dating her he knows he’s going to get shit and his friends are going to talk shit because they know the type of girl she is as well, so that’s where his insecurity comes in. He knows her situation she’s just out there, she’s a very out-there girl. Why does he care so much what others think of her? With him and Cassie, we see a lot of ups and downs in their relationship, with a constant theme of him caring what his friends think of her and how she dresses and acts. 'Euphoria' Star on Portraying Abusive Teen Relationships, Shooting That Choking Scene I think outside of that, it may be Cassie and everything he has to do with that, but I think the main thing he’s focused on is, “I’m not making it in my dream, and my father is counting on me making it and I’ve got to break it to him.” The deeper we go, we start talking about the father again because that’s just the dynamic right now it’s football and it’s also trying to please his father with football. I think it’s really rooted in football, to be honest that’s where he finds his confidence. Beyond football, what’s the deeper fear there? Throughout this episode, McKay is panicking about his future and doubting he will be able to go pro. That relationship is very critical to him and his confidence. I think his father’s opinion really just affects his everyday thought process, and when he feels he’s not making it in college, that really hurts him to break it to his father. Even when he’s practicing really hard and he’s like, “OK, now you’re ready to practice for real with the team,” you see immediately the hard work inside of him. We see from the beginning of the episode, as soon as we come in, how it is between him and his father. We learn a lot about McKay’s relationship with his father in this episode - how did that intense upbringing affect who he is now? Smith, who recently appeared in The Hate U Give, spoke to The Hollywood Reporter about that hazing scene, McKay’s emotional issues and working with an intimacy coordinator on set. The episode ends with Cassie realizing she may be pregnant. He breaks down in the bathroom after the incident, but publicly acts like everything is fine, even as he and Cassie get increasingly distant.
In a particularly brutal scene this week, McKay is getting intimate with Cassie when multiple masked men break down his door and assault him, seemingly as part of a hazing ritual. His relationship with girlfriend Cassie (played by Sydney Sweeney) is also a big part of his storyline, as he keeps her at arm’s length and gets embarrassed over how she dresses and acts.
The episode explores McKay’s complex relationship with his strict father, who is always pushing him to be the best on the field, and the fears about his future when he realizes he may not be good enough to make it to the NFL. Smith stars on HBO’s boundary-pushing drama as Chris McKay, the lone college student in the group who is struggling with his identity as a former football star. Continuing Euphoria’s trend of breakout episodes and deep dives into one character’s past each week, Sunday night’s episode six was Algee Smith’s moment in the spotlight.
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