Singer-actor Dominic Fike – who performed the function of Elliot in season two of HBO‘s Euphoria – has revealed that he was practically kicked off the present.

Whereas chatting with Zane Lowe for Apple Music, Fike shared that he wasn’t in the perfect headspace whereas filming for Euphoria‘s second season. Fike, who had been hooked on medicine in actual life, defined the struggles he confronted when having to painting the function of a drug person.

“I imply I used to be a drug addict and coming onto a present primarily about medicine was very troublesome,” Fike informed Lowe. “Sam [Levinson], the director and author, he bought me a sober coach, anyone to be there you already know on a regular basis. Didn’t work.”

When requested if he had proven up onto set excessive, Fike responded: “Oh my god, yeah dude. I used to be so fucked up throughout a variety of that present. It was actually unhealthy. I nearly you already know bought kicked off the present. They had been like, ‘Bro you can’t be doing this.’”

Fike was requested if he was excessive in among the scenes they ended up utilizing, to which he stated he was. Lowe identified the hypocrisy in that call, saying producers had warned Fike to not be excessive however nonetheless included that footage into the present. “That’s leisure dude,” the actor stated. “They provide you a bunch of cash, and so they’re similar to, ‘Yeah determine it out, bud. Sink or swim.’”

Fike has most lately launched his sophomore album ‘Sunburn’ on July 7 by way of Columbia Data. That file scored a three-star overview from NME‘s Erica Campbell, who wrote: “‘Sunburn’ nonetheless acts as a love letter to the place he was raised in, nonetheless, permitting Fike to return residence not solely to the relentless humid state however to himself.”

Fike additionally lately introduced his first-ever tour of the UK this September. Fike is about to kick off the run on September 19 in Glasgow on the O2 Academy Glasow. From there, the singer will head out to Manchester and Birmingham enjoying the O2 Victoria Warehouse and the O2 Academy earlier than wrapping up the tour on the Eventim Apollo in London on September 23. Go to right here for tickets.

Dominic Fike ‘Don’t Stare At The Solar’ UK tour dates are: 

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19 – Glasgow, O2 Academy Glasgow
20 – Manchester, O2 Victoria Warehouse
22 – Birmingham, O2 Academy
23 – London, Eventim Apollo

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