Barbie Ferreira is opening up about the true story behind her exit from Euphoria and why it wasn’t as dramatic as the media made it seem.
The 29-year-old actress played Kat in the first two seasons of the show, but did not return for the third and possible final season of the series, which just premiered on Sunday.
While appearing on the April 14 episode of Amanda Hirsch’s Not Skinny But Not Fat podcast, Barbie further explained what happened. JustJared.com has a sneak peek at that clip.
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“It wasn’t dramatic,” Barbie said. “In fact, it was kind of the opposite of dramatic, where it was like a long process of being like, ‘I don’t know if this is it for me.’ And then like having conversations with people and us trying to figure out how to make Kat like a fully fleshed out character, and it just wasn’t going anywhere.”
Barbie said she didn’t want to be a background character and decided she’d rather work on indie movies that creatively fulfilled her.
“So I truly was just like, since we can’t find anything and we can’t land on anything, I’m like, let me just go do my thing. ‘Cause it’s a long time and you can’t like leave. And the thing is, I don’t need to be on the biggest TV show on earth if I’m not like acting, you know? So I would rather do an indie movie where I’m acting, I’m flexing my muscles, I’m being creatively, like you know, asked to do things rather than kind of sitting around to be a background character,” Barbie said.
She added, “And some people are like, ‘I would do that.’ I’m like, ‘Good for you.’ Like, you want to be a background character for 9 months? That’s like totally fine and cool. But I was like, I want to do other stuff. I want to produce indie cinema. I don’t have time for what you’re doing. I do indie movies that literally are made on a shoestring budget, but it’s like cool and like real stories. And I’d rather that than kind of be a second thought.”
Check out all of the other changes to the Euphoria cast for this season.