Tuesday 7 June 2022 06:16 PM Andrew Garfield gushes over Zendaya's performance on Euphoria trends now

Zendaya is opening up about her process portraying troubled teen Rue on HBO's hit show Euphoria, after the second season came under fire this year amid claims of a toxic workplace environment.

The 25-year-old star admitted to actor Andrew Garfield that one particularly demanding scene in the drama resulted in her friends 'checking in' on the young actor to make sure she was OK after it had been broadcast.

Speaking on Variety's Actors on Actors series, Andrew, 38, brought up the fifth episode of the second season, Stand Still Like the Hummingbird, where Rue's mother confronts the teen over her drug use - which he calls 'one of the most relentless episodes of television I've ever seen.'

'How did you make sure you were OK while you were doing that?' a concerned Andrew asked Zendaya. 

'It's tough,' the actress admitted. 'And I thought what was actually quite sweet was when that episode did air, I did get a lot of messages from people checking in on me, which I appreciated.' 

Andrew then said that knowing Zendaya was supported by friends made him want to cry. 'I didn't feel like there was any acting. It felt like you were living through something in such an authentic way,' he said. 

The scene in question sees Rue and her mother physically fighting over her drug use, and Zendaya admits that she had not been looking forward to filming it.

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