Sam Levinson and Marcell Rév are speaking out.
The Euphoria creator and cinematographer addressed various plot points and film techniques in the newly premiered third season of the hit HBO show, including a controversial storyline involving Sydney Sweeney‘s Cassie doing OnlyFans.
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In the show, Cassie and Nate (Jacob Elordi) are engaged and preparing for their wedding. The cinematographer discussed scouting their house in an interview with THR.
“An obvious choice would’ve been something modern and very plain and fancy, but we ended up choosing this mid-century home, which is a little tacky, but also stuck in the ‘70s. It’s probably a strange choice, but also it gives us possibilities,” Marcell said.
“OnlyFans has its own aesthetic and how you elevate that aesthetic to the show’s aesthetic is a challenge, I’m not going to lie,” he went on to explain, addressing Cassie’s efforts to bring in extra income for their lifestyle.
“[Cassie] has got her dog house and her little dog ears and the nose, and that has its own humor, but what makes the scene is the fact that her housekeeper is the one filming it,” Sam added of their OnlyFans scenes.
“What we wanted to always find is the other layer of absurdity that we’re able to tie into it so that we’re not too inside of her fantasy or illusion — the gag is to jump out, to break the wall.”
“Some of these scenes we only lit with these ring lights that she would use…. When you’re inside, it’s a beautiful, glowing front light, but then you jump out of it and it’s just a pool of light and everything surrounding it is dark. It’s just gnarly and jarring. We wanted to capture what she’s trying to show the audience and be inside of it, but then also pull back wider and see how depressing it is,” Sam noted.
“Shooting it on a 65mm camera with our lenses on our film stock — it gives it a certain look, and I think that’s an interesting pairing there. Doing an OnlyFans aesthetic with these tools is something that excites me,” Marcell added.
If you missed it, a teaser glimpse of one of Cassie’s OF scenes sparked outrage as she was dressed like a baby.
