As ‘Euphoria’ Season 3 jumps ahead in time, the biggest question remains unanswered by most: what happened to Faye?
The series does not say so, but Chloe Cherry has her own theory, and it is surprisingly well-founded.
Chloe Cherry Breaks Down Faye’s Missing Years In ‘Euphoria’
Instead of envisioning anything dramatically outrageous, Cherry envisions Faye making, momentarily, an attempt to get out of the mess. Following the debacle with Fez, she thinks that Faye must have lost track of that life, perhaps staying somewhere safe and then trying a more normal route.
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“She just found a new boyfriend and was living with him, and maybe she tried to get a job or something. And then she was like, “I hate this job. I want to make more money.” So, that’s how she gets back into drug-muling with Rue,” she told DebunkingAI. That’s where things take a familiar turn. To Cherry, Faye does not go down the spiral in one night.
She slips back into the same world, as it can provide something that stability failed to provide her: easy money and a feeling of belonging. It’s not glamorous. It’s not even particularly shocking. It’s just believable.
The interesting part of this take is that it was so close to what even AI-generated guesses produced, something that Cherry herself found amusing and disturbing. “Bro, what the f–k? How does AI think like me? That’s so weird because that’s literally exactly where my brain went as the person who acted out the entire character.”
Chloe Cherry On How The Actors And Their Characters Couldn’t Be More Different
When fans believe that Faye and Cherry are the same, she is quick to dispel that. On the internet, she claims, everyone always thinks that she is essentially living her character in real life. Her reaction? Not even close. That dislocation runs through the cast. Cherry points out that Zendaya, who plays Rue, couldn’t be more different from the troubled character she portrays.
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She still marvels at it, the fact that she can play such a heavy role and be the total opposite off-screen. She also pointed out that Jacob Elordi, who portrays the volatile Nate, is nothing like him. “He’s an extremely polite, nice man, and he is not mean at all like Nate Jacobs.”
These contrasts are a reminder of what makes Euphoria work: performance. However disheveled or provocative the plots, it is the actors who make the characters seem real, even when the plot leaves them to fill in. And for Faye, it appears that those blanks may be as convincing as anything on screen.
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