After receiving backlash for Cassie’s OnlyFans story line, Euphoria pushed it additional with extra scenes the place Sydney Sweeney is topless — and others the place she is masturbating on digital camera.
Throughout the Sunday, Might 10, episode of the hit HBO sequence, Cassie grew her subscribers on OnlyFans with Maddie’s (Alexa Demie) assist by filming graphic content material. A few of it was extra tame, with Cassie recording horny audio messages and occurring podcasts to indicate assist for males’s rights.
Others have been extra sexual in nature with Cassie filming herself having intercourse, sending her used underwear to her followers and going topless once more. Whereas Cassie labored laborious to usher in the cash, her husband, Nate (Jacob Elordi), inspired her to push herself even additional to supply for him so he might repay his debt.
Cassie’s arc in season 3 has obtained criticism after some OnlyFans creators weren’t thrilled with how their line of labor was portrayed on display screen. Creator Sam Levinson, nonetheless, defended the choice to push boundaries.
“[Cassie] has acquired her canine home and her little canine ears and the nostril, and that has its personal humor,” Levinson defined to The Hollywood Reporter in April. “However what makes the scene is the truth that her housekeeper is the one filming it.”
He continued: “What we wished to at all times discover is the opposite layer of absurdity that we’re in a position to tie into it in order that we’re not too inside her fantasy or phantasm,” the 41-year-old added. “The gag is to leap out, to interrupt the wall.”
Levinson broke down how he and director of pictures Marcell Rév introduced the scenes to life.
“An apparent alternative would’ve been one thing trendy and really plain and fancy, however we ended up selecting this mid-century dwelling, which is a little bit cheesy, but in addition caught within the ‘70s,” Rév defined. “It’s most likely a wierd alternative, but in addition it offers us prospects. OnlyFans has its personal aesthetic and the way you elevate that aesthetic to the present’s aesthetic is a problem. I’m not going to lie.”
Regardless of the backlash, Levinson stood by his imaginative and prescient.
“A few of these scenes we solely lit with these ring lights that she would use. While you’re inside, it’s an attractive, glowing entrance gentle, however then you definately leap out of it and it’s only a pool of sunshine and all the pieces surrounding it’s darkish. It’s simply gnarly and jarring,” he added. “We wished to seize what she’s making an attempt to indicate the viewers and be inside it. However then additionally pull again wider and see how miserable it’s.”
Euphoria airs on HBO Sundays at 9 p.m. ET.
