The story of how Faye got cast on “Euphoria” starts inside Chloe Cherry’s spam folder.
In a recent “Blind Date” YouTube appearance, the “Love Audit” segment, Cherry said she nearly deleted the casting email that summoned her to the audition for season two. The wording read as scam-coded to her, per the segment. She showed up anyway and walked into the same audition room as Dominic Fike.
For what it’s worth, Fike’s own audition has since become a Hollywood folk story. He showed up, by his own later telling, “beyond f— up” after a night of whiskey and shrooms, threw things, and was told by his agents he’d never work in town again. Cherry, meanwhile, was in the same lobby, thinking the whole thing was a phishing test.
Both of them got cast. Both played significant roles across three seasons. The audition lobby that day held one of the show’s eventual breakout characters and another whose name was already on the soundtrack. Nobody in the room would have called it that.
Cherry has been telling the audition story across her post-finale press tour with a remarkably consistent register: this whole thing nearly didn’t happen, and the reason it did has nothing to do with any of the usual ways people are taught to break into Hollywood.
