Euphoria's Colman Domingo and Jeremy O. Harris dismiss allegations of a toxic set

The Hollywood Reporter

"I don’t think it’s a thing — at least from my experience," Domingo told The Hollywood Reporter at the Independent Spirit Awards. “Every single time I’ve been on that set there’s so much care, so much love, so much creative energy,” Domingo added. “The reality is that in the television space, we usually shoot 12 to 16 hour days. That’s just the norm across the board, and I’ve never had one problem. Once again, if anything, I’ve had the utmost care and the way we’re taken care of with food and rests, and just care for your schedule, I feel like there’s ultimate consideration. I don’t know where these words are coming from but I think that with anything good, you’re always going to get some backlash, and so you have to be prepared for it.” Harris, who serves as a consultant on Euphoria, says the negative press is comparable to what he saw written about Janicza Bravo’s film Zola. “It’s very similar to Zola,” he said. “Things that are seemingly about young black women, queer people, people don’t see those getting huge numbers or huge awards attention. When they do, they have to find some hole to pick in them. I think that’s something that’s happening with a show that had 20 million views and is the most popular since Game of Thrones. There are no dragons here. It’s just a young black girl trying to struggle with addiction. I think people are trying to figure out what must be wrong to make this thing run the way it has.”