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‘Euphoria’ Star Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje on the Shocking Finale Episode (Exclusive)
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‘Euphoria’ Star Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje on the Shocking Finale Episode (Exclusive)

The Hollywood Reporter·Seija Rankin·about 14 hours ago
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Logo text [This story contains major spoilers from Euphoria ‘s season three finale.] Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje ’s death, in the climactic final scenes of Euphoria , was not supposed to happen the way it did. In the first iterations of the script, his character, the strip club empresario and season three Big Bad Alamo Brown, went out while he was on top of the world — he’d just toppled drug kingpin Laurie (played by Martha Kelly), defeated the DEA, and was in the midst of celebrating taking out another of one his adversaries (Zendaya’s Rue; more on that later) when his final moment came. But then Akinnuoye-Agbaje and creator Sam Levinson got to talking, and they realized the moment needed something more poignant. “We asked ourselves, was his journey really just about chasing money and women?” says Akinnuoye-Agbaje. “We thought it would be more substantive to have a reflective moment where he realizes he has everything, and yet nothing.…

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