After D.A.R.E. accused the present of "misguidedly and erroneously" depicting teen drug use, Zendaya has mentioned that HBO's "Euphoria" may assist younger addicts really feel "much less alone."
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“Euphoria” isn’t a “ethical story,” mentioned its star Zendaya after D.A.R.E. slammed the hit HBO collection for “glorifying” drug use.
The anti-drug schooling group based practically 40 years in the past launched a press release late final month to warn in opposition to the racy teen drama, now in its second season, that has “misguidedly and erroneously” depicted highschool drug use.
Zendaya, 25, has since come out to defend the present in a brand new interview with Leisure Weekly.
“Our present is by no means an ethical story to show folks learn how to reside their life or what they need to be doing. If something, the sensation behind ‘Euphoria,’ or no matter we now have at all times been attempting to do with it, is to hopefully assist folks really feel just a little bit much less alone of their expertise and their ache,” the “Spider-Man: No Method Residence” actress advised the outlet. “And possibly really feel like they’re not the one one going by means of or coping with what they’re coping with.”
However D.A.R.E. has mentioned that the present inherently normalizes teen drug abuse by depicting it as a typical extracurricular exercise amongst excessive schoolers.
“Relatively than additional every mother or father’s want to maintain their kids secure from the doubtless horrific penalties of drug abuse and different high-risk conduct, HBO’s tv drama, ‘Euphoria,’ chooses to misguidedly glorify and erroneously depict highschool scholar drug use, habit, nameless intercourse, violence, and different harmful behaviors as frequent and widespread in at the moment’s world,” D.A.R.E. mentioned in a press release to TMZ on Jan. 26.
They continued, “It's unlucky that HBO, social media, tv program reviewers, and paid promoting have chosen to seek advice from the present as ‘groundbreaking,’ reasonably than recognizing the potential unfavorable penalties on school-age kids who at the moment face unparalleled dangers and psychological well being challenges.”
Nika King, who performs the mother Leslie Bennett to Zendaya’s Rue, agrees the subject material “[is] undoubtedly not fairly” in her dialog with Leisure Weekly, however that showrunner Sam Levinson thought it was vital to discover and “be seen.”
“We have to see this Bennett household actually undergo it as a result of that’s the one approach the viewers and people who find themselves additionally going by means of this in actual life perceive. And so they’re like, ‘Wow, that is genuine. That is actual,’ ” mentioned King.
Levinson has mentioned elsewhere that Rue’s journey mirrors his personal rising up.
“I spent nearly all of my teenage years out and in of hospitals, rehabs and midway homes. I used to be a drug addict, and I’d take something and every thing till I couldn’t hear or breathe or really feel,” mentioned the co-creator, director and producer in a 2019 interview with Selection. The 37-year-old added that he’s now been clear for 14 years.
Season 2 of “Euphoria” culminates in an intervention for the present’s protagonist, Rue — which Zendaya referred to as “gentle on the finish of the tunnel” for her character, and needs viewers to achieve “just a little bit extra understanding and [be] empathetic over the expertise of habit.”
“My greatest hope is that individuals are in a position to connect with it and those that must heal and develop with Rue hopefully, by the top of this season, really feel that hope and really feel that change in her.”
She added, “I’ve had lots of people attain out and discover so many parallels from all ages, all walks of life. So many parallels with Rue and her story and Rue means loads to them in a approach that I can perceive, but in addition possibly in a approach that I may by no means perceive, and meaning essentially the most to all of us.”
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