Dominic Hike says he was high on drugs during filming of ‘Euphoria’
The Hindu
American singer-songwriter Dominic Fike says he was almost fired for being high on drugs for most of the show
Dominic Fike is opening up about his drug use In HBO’s series Euphoria, . The American singer-songwriter Fike, in an Apple Music interview, admitted being high on drugs for most of the show, despite the showrunner Sam Levinson hiring a “sober coach” for him that “did not work”.
“I was so fucked up during a lot of that show. It was really bad,” Fike said. “I was reprimanded for it. I almost got kicked off the show. They were like, ‘Bro, you cannot be doing this.’”
“I was a drug addict and coming on to a show that’s, you know, mainly about drugs, is very difficult,” he said. “That’s entertainment dude. They give you a bunch of money and they’re like, ‘Yeah, figure it out bud. Sink or swim,” he said.
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In season 2 of Euphoria, Fike played Elliot, a new friend of Rue’s (played by Zendaya), who enabled her drug use, in part contributing to her character undergoing an intervention midway through the season. The third season of Euphoria is expected to be released in 2025.
“Writing, in general, is a very solitary process,” says Yauvanika Chopra, Associate Director at The New India Foundation (NIF), which, earlier this year, announced the 12th edition of its NIF Book Fellowships for research and scholarship about Indian history after Independence. While authors, in general, are built for it, it can still get very lonely, says Chopra, pointing out that the fellowship’s community support is as valuable as the monetary benefits it offers. “There is a solid community of NIF fellows, trustees, language experts, jury members, all of whom are incredibly competent,” she says. “They really help make authors feel supported from manuscript to publication, so you never feel like you’re struggling through isolation.”
Several principals of government and private schools in Delhi on Tuesday said the Directorate of Education (DoE) circular from a day earlier, directing schools to conduct classes in ‘hybrid’ mode, had caused confusion regarding day-to-day operations as they did not know how many students would return to school from Wednesday and how would teachers instruct in two modes — online and in person — at once. The DoE circular on Monday had also stated that the option to “exercise online mode of education, wherever available, shall vest with the students and their guardians”. Several schoolteachers also expressed confusion regarding the DoE order. A government schoolteacher said he was unsure of how to cope with the resumption of physical classes, given that the order directing government offices to ensure that 50% of the employees work from home is still in place. On Monday, the Commission for Air Quality Management in the National Capital Region and Adjoining Areas (CAQM) had, on the orders of the Supreme Court, directed schools in Delhi-NCR to shift classes to the hybrid mode, following which the DoE had issued the circular. The court had urged the Centre’s pollution watchdog to consider restarting physical classes due to many students missing out on the mid-day meals and lacking the necessary means to attend classes online. The CAQM had, on November 20, asked schools in Delhi-NCR to shift to the online mode of teaching.