Key Points
Unlike his already well-established co-stars like Zendaya, a former Disney star, and Elordi, known from Netflix hit The Kissing Booth, Cloud was scouted by a casting agent while walking on the street in New York..
Amid the show's often whiplash-inducing plot twists and anxiety-inducing pace, Cloud was a stabilising, almost grounding presence: stoic in his demeanour, despite Fezco often being involved in much of the most terrifying action in the series...
To some extent, Fez was the voice of the show's complicated conscience, flipping from mild-mannered soul into menace when wreaking revenge on those he believed deserved it: Nate, who Fez viciously attacked after he blackmailed and tormented Rue's girlfriend, Jules and Nate's hateful dad Cal, who had videoed himself abusing teenagers..
If Euphoria's first series in 2019 established Fez as a compelling presence, it was the second series in 2022 that really deepened him as a character particularly the first episode of the run, which focused on Fez's origin story, highlighting how important to the show the character had become..
In Euphoria, we see a young teen Fez being accidentally hit in the head with an iron crowbar by his drug-dealing grandma, and in real life Cloud also suffered brain damage from a head injury, aged 14...
