“I wasn’t going to let anyone give up on him,” Sam Levinson says.
But Levinson said he could tell it wasn’t working.
“That’s where it gets tricky because the whole world can want it for you.
Angus Cloud and Sam Levinson.Daniele Venturelli/Getty Images; Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic
But he didn’t want it.
It’s just the self-destructive side of addiction and it outweighs everything.
But you might’t give up on people.
Angus Cloud on ‘Euphoria’.Eddy Chen/HBO
I wasn’t going to let anyone give up on him.”
When Cloud relapsed while filming season 2, Levinson intervened again.
“I could just see the blood kind of run out of his face,” Levinson said.
The one thing that I knew is he loved making this show.
He loved the crew.
He loved the actors.
He loved everything about it.
Levinson decided to change course and told his team, “I can’t do it.
I can’t kill him.
We got to keep him around.
He’s too special.
It doesn’t matter what the f—ing story is.”
“No, no, I’m good.
I’m good,” Levinson remembered Cloud telling him.
He wasn’t going to do anything, and yeah, he didn’t want it."
Cloud died July 31in his family home in Oakland.
