Dominic Fike Says He Was Almost Kicked Off 'Euphoria' for Drug Use While Filming
etonline.comcould have been short-lived. The 27-year-old actor, who plays Elliot on the Max drama, revealed in a new interview that he was reprimanded and nearly fired for being high on the job. «I was a drug addict and coming on to a show that's, you know, mainly about drugs, is very difficult,» Fike says in a wide-ranging interview with Zane Lowe for Apple Music.
Fike shares that writer and director Sam Levinson hired a «sober coach» to be with him «all the time,» but the strategy «did not work.» Asked whether he filmed any of his scenes while high, Fike replies, «Oh my god.
Yeah, dude.»«I was so f**ked up during a lot of that show. It was really bad,» he admits.«I was reprimanded for it,» he continues. «I almost, you know, got kicked off the show.… They were like, 'Bro, you cannot be doing this.'» Fike says that some of the takes that he shot while under the influence did end up in the final edit of the show, noting that producers «had to» use those scenes.
When Lowe suggests there is a double standard regarding the expectation of Fike as an actor, the star responds, «Yeah, that's entertainment dude.
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