Zendaya was asked how it was to “experience so much joy in a year filled with so much pain.”
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“I got through it without letting it take over completely,” she added. “But it’s obviously a very emotional moment. Yeah, I still can’t believe it myself. Pretty crazy.” Her character in “Euphoria” is a far cry from her Disney past, and even from her more recent, high-profile projects — the acrobat in a forbidden love affair in the musical “The Greatest Showman” and the completely reimagined “MJ” character in the Marvel Cinematic Universe
. Rue has extreme mood swings and self-medicates; she’s in trouble, and it’s not clear that she’ll find her way. But in Zendaya’s hands, she remains sympathetic.“What’s so special to me about her is that she is a full, whole human being and she’s layered and she’s complicated,” the actress said. “I think, as the show goes on, we’re also able to empathize with addiction and what that looks like, and what that does to a family and be able to understand and still root for Rue.
“For me, I’ve always been very grateful for all the people who feel that they connect to Rue. Or feel that, through the show, they’ve been able to put or attach words, or find themselves within a scene or a moment where they otherwise felt alone or maybe they were the only person dealing with or having those thoughts … to have that clarity or to have that feeling that there [are] other people that feel what I feel, I think is huge, and it’s very important.
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