Zendaya’s Stunts On “Euphoria” Are Wild — But Does She Have a Stunt Double?

The Feb. 6 episode of “Euphoria,” “Stand Nonetheless Just like the Hummingbird,” is one which we cannot cease eager about for some time — if ever. Whereas the second season has spent plenty of time on different characters, this one got here again to major character Rue (Zendaya). Rue’s substance abuse has caught as much as her but once more, discovering the teenager careening each bodily and mentally in all places. Operating into site visitors, banging down folks’s doorways, stealing from her buddies, and screaming at her household are simply tidbits of every little thing that occurs to her over the course of the episode — and Zendaya dealt with plenty of it on her personal.

Whereas on a rampage to keep away from going to rehab, Rue fairly actually runs into site visitors to flee her mom. She finally ends up at Lexi (Maude Apatow) and Cassie’s (Sydney Sweeney) home, the place her mom finds her. The rescue is short-lived, nevertheless, and Rue finally ends up again on the road. Whereas working from the cops, Rue jumps fences, climbs over automobiles, and throws herself each which solution to get out. The sequence was so action-packed that followers in contrast it to parkour. Now, some are questioning how most of the episode’s stunts had been carried out by Zendaya herself.

Does Zendaya Do Her Personal Stunts On “Euphoria”?

Zendaya informed “Leisure Weekly” that this episode was significantly grueling for her. “It was a really powerful day,” she mentioned. “I imply, I beat myself up. I nonetheless have some scars on my legs, and obtained fairly just a few bruises. . . . It was so intense and scary to deal with, and clearly one thing that may be extremely emotionally taxing, but in addition bodily taxing.” She refers back to the episode because the “Rue-run episode.”

Does Zendaya Have a Stunt Double on “Euphoria”?

Whereas Zendaya apparently did at the very least among the episode’s stunts and bodily actions, it is potential she had assist from a stunt performer. Mallory Thompson is listed as Zendaya’s stunt double for 2 season one episodes and as a stunt performer for the Feb. 6 episode. Thompson is broadly believed to have assisted with the pilot episode’s montage of Zendaya crashing her bike.

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Nonetheless, as a result of the bodily sequences within the Feb. 6 episode aren’t over-the-top tough, we will undoubtedly consider that Zendaya may need carried out many of the work herself. Both means, one factor’s for positive: whoever was chargeable for pulling off all these stunts did a killer job.