Becoming a household name. Euphoria fans hoped season 2 would bring a larger part for Maude Apatow’s character, Lexi Howard, and the show’s creator, Sam Levinson, delivered.Following the second season premiere, Apatow teased what fans can expect from the quiet teenager as the HBO show continues.“I think you’ll see a lot more of my character this season,” the actress shared during a January appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. “It’s all exciting and I think people are going to be surprised.”As more episodes have aired, the King of Staten Island star explained how she relates to Lexi, the younger sister of outgoing popular girl Cassie (Sydney Sweeney).
Apatow told W Magazine in January that she never thought of herself as someone with “main character energy” previously.“I definitely am similar to Lexi in the way that I feel like I’m always judging what I’m saying.
I get anxious as I’m talking,” the California native added. “I feel like I’ve gotten better with that as I’ve gotten older, even though it happens still.
But when I think about Lexi, it’s a way, way more extreme version of that. She actually can’t speak because of it.”The second season premiere was mainly set at a New Year’s Eve party, where fans were brought right back into the sex and drug-filled world of Rue Bennett (Zendaya).
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