Hunter Schafer felt little euphoria in telling her non secular dad and mom in regards to the titular present.
The “Euphoria” star was naturally ecstatic to land her breakout position within the hit HBO sequence at solely 20 years previous, however, as Schafer recalled on the “Call Her Daddy” podcast, she had some hassle explaining her extra specific scenes to the religious Christians who raised her.
“I didn’t tell them that I was in the audition process because I really wasn’t sure that I was gonna do it,” she mentioned, including: “I didn’t tell them until I had actually gotten the job, which kind of left them in a situation, ’cause I didn’t really give them room to give their opinions.”
Schafer defined Thursday that her household’s Presbyterian congregation consists of “little, old, nice, white Christian people from the South” — her dad, Mac, is a pastor and her mother, Katy, is a youth minister — making the information somewhat awkward to interrupt.
“When I had to tell my parents, ‘In the first episode I’m having anal sex with a 45-year-old and cutting myself in the arm,’” Schafer mentioned Thursday, “my first thought is, ‘OK, they have to tell their congregation that their kid’s going to be on TV … and see me getting buttfucked.’”
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“Euphoria” definitely covers intense subject material and doesn’t draw back from real-life points like substance abuse, sexual assault or self-harm, as evident within the 2019 pilot through which Schafer’s teenage character Jules has anal intercourse with the daddy of one other scholar.
Schafer mentioned that coming clear to her dad and mom about her job provide made her “jealous” of friends whose households perceive or work within the enterprise, although she additionally mentioned she was completely satisfied about her dad and mom coming from a “completely separate world.”
“Even though they didn’t know a lot about it, I think they know the nature of this industry can be very intense, and they just didn’t want me to get fucked up by it, you know?” she mentioned Thursday.
Schafer isn’t the one “Euphoria” star to endure some awkward household moments, nonetheless, as Sydney Sweeney has additionally shared a few of her personal.
Schafer did observe on Thursday that her dad and mom are on “the chiller side of Christianity.”
“To a degree, I do still feel bad because that’s something that they still have to deal with,” the actor shared on the podcast. “You know, my movie coming out next week, ‘Kinds of Kindness,’ which I’m so excited about, my one scene in it — I got my titties out.”
“I have no personal problems with it, but some people … aren’t going to get it,” she added.
