In my career so far, it’s one of the first times where I sent an audition tape and within seconds, everyone on the team separately sent immediate responses of, ‘Oh my God! Who is this? Wow!’” You could just watch him listen forever it jumped off the screen. “There was a lot of time where the camera was just on his face listening, and there was so much subtext there, just in his face. One of the scenes that he auditioned for was a big monologue that Rue had,” Venditti says. “He had this incredible ability for active listening. But he did a reading and was just so crazy good with, like, zero training. I was like, ‘Oh my god, please let him be able to act.’ Because so many times, you see the videos, and these people have that indefinable thing … you get them with a script. He’s so magnetic, just talking about life. “The first thing you notice, of course, are these crazy blue eyes. And get kicked out.”)Īugustine Frizzell, who directed the pilot episode of “Euphoria,” was equally struck by the interview video. (“Yeah, that happened a couple times,” Cloud told Variety. Some ability to tell a story that’s engaging.” That’s a quality I look for in interviews. There was one question about something crazy you did, and he told this story about him and his friends breaking into a zoo. Very charming, and told incredible, funny stories. Just really warm, and incredible on camera.
“He has this rough, street quality about him, but he’s a very sensitive and curious and open person. “He was not what you would expect,” she says. Angus doesn’t get enough credit.”Īfter being introduced by Eléonore Hendricks, the casting scout who spotted Cloud on the street, Venditti interviewed him on camera to get a sense of his screen presence. It’s not just showing up and being yourself on camera. I’ve been doing this for a while, in terms of working with non-actors, and a lot of people can’t do it. People just think, ‘Oh, he just shows up. I’m in rooms with people that have been acting their whole life, and I’m like, ‘Why am I here?’ I got impostor-type shit.”Ĭasting director Jennifer Venditti is also dismayed by the way people see Cloud: “It bothers me. But if I did shit, then it is what it is. “I ain’t tryna be like no one-trick pony. They wanted me to sound like I was damn near from the south or something.
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“I just did a frat movie where I don’t have that accent. “They gotta see some other work, I guess,” Cloud says when asked what he thinks might change his public perception. So when scenes from “Euphoria” and various media appearances in a similar cadence are all that fans see, it becomes easy to draw untrue conclusions. He was scouted for the role while walking down the street in Brooklyn, without any dreams or plans related to acting. There’s also the fact that Cloud is a first-time actor.
Cloud doesn’t alter his voice to play Fez, and additionally works with Levinson to adapt his dialogue into a vernacular that feels more natural to him, heavily influenced by his upbringing in Oakland, Calif. Much of the misconception that Cloud and Fez are one in the same comes from the unmistakable qualities of Cloud’s voice, which is uniquely gravelly and slow-paced - partially impacted by a traumatic brain injury he sustained as a teenager, which he discusses at length in his cover story.
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