Euphoria Season 2: Storm Reid, Colman Domingo, Nika King on Tackling Exhausting Intervention Episode

Editor’s note: The following contains spoilers for Season 2, Episode 5 of HBO’s Euphoria. On the HBO original series Euphoria, Rue (Zendaya) has been on a downward spiral that’s even worse than those closest to her have feared. And while it’s easy to understand why the people in her life that love her would want to help her, when an addict is out of control, it’s up to them to pull themselves out and find a new path, and often things get much uglier and much darker before ever finding the light again. During this interview with Collider, which you can both watch and read, co-stars Storm Reid (who plays Rue’s younger sister, Gia), Nika King (who plays the mother torn between being there for Gia while also still trying to get through to Rue) and Colman Domingo (who plays Ali, an addict who’s navigating his own recovery process) talked about shooting an intervention that lasted for an entire episode, the levels of physical and emotional exhaustion that came out of the experience, how you prepare to