Angus Cloud: How a night-time stroll made Euphoria's breakout star

On a lukewarm New York summertime night, Eléonore Hendricks saw Angus Cloud, the 25-year-old histrion who died connected Monday, walking down a Manhattan street.

It was 2018 and Ms Hendricks was casting a caller HBO amusement called Euphoria, a racy teenage communicative of emotion and loss, addiction and hope.

Shining the airy of popular civilization connected issues of cause maltreatment and intelligence wellness felt a spot dangerous, but besides important. And she was inactive searching for the antheral who would play Fezco "Fez" O'Neill.

It was past 10pm and she was disconnected the clock. But erstwhile she saw the 20-year-old Cloud connected Mercer Street, the antheral imagined successful the aviator publication "crystallised" earlier her eyes.

"The quality is written arsenic idiosyncratic who is simply a cause trader kid, but not a atrocious cause trader kid," she told BBC News.

"Someone who is streetwise and has a definite swag, and besides idiosyncratic you could spot and consciousness harmless with."

Cloud had "something truthful chiseled and special" from the infinitesimal she spotted him, and she stopped him and his person to chat.

Having been a casting scout for immoderate 2 decades, Ms Hendricks knew however to attack full strangers and person them to bash an audition - known successful the manufacture arsenic thoroughfare casting.

Her telephone was dormant but she explained she was casting connected behalf of Jennifer Venditti, who scoured mundane faces for advertising, fashion, movie and TV spots.

Cloud was moving astatine the clip astatine a chicken-and-waffles edifice successful Brooklyn and has said successful interviews helium had nary aspirations of being a Hollywood star.

He told GQ successful 2019 that the brushwood with Ms Hendricks was confusing and helium thought "it was immoderate benignant of scam".

But nether the airy of a pinkish neon sign, helium told her, among different things, astir his determination from Oakland, California to the Big Apple and his involvement successful the graffiti scene.

Visually, helium was dreamy. His dependable was laconic and melodic, arsenic if helium was articulating a lullaby erstwhile helium spoke.

"I don't ever cognize that they're close for the role, but I bash spot truly peculiar radical astatine times," Ms Hendricks said.

"I emotion erstwhile you've been looking and looking, and past abruptly you spot idiosyncratic that stands a caput supra different people. It happens sometimes."

She remembers scribbling her telephone fig connected a portion of insubstantial and being adamant that helium scope out.

Despite his evident scepticism, helium reached retired by substance the adjacent time and she directed him to the casting office, wherever Ms Venditti interviewed him connected camera to measure his surface presence.

"He was not what you would expect," she told Variety past year. "He has this rough, thoroughfare prime astir him, but he's a precise delicate and funny and unfastened person. Just truly warm, and unthinkable connected camera."

Ms Hendricks said Cloud's audition portion rapidly sealed the deal.

"Not each actors tin instrumentality material, and marque it their ain and accidental it truthful truthfully," she said.

"He took the dialog and conscionable said it arsenic though it was himself. It came retired of him truthful naturally."

Fez was ne'er meant to beryllium a bid regular, but HBO audiences fell successful emotion with his magnetic bluish eyes and his large heart, his progressive listening and genuine interest for the pb Rue Bennett, played by Zendaya.

By the clip Euphoria was renewed for different season, Cloud was its astonishment breakout prima and his guardian angel quality was rewarded with much storyline improvement successful play two.

Euphoria was Cloud's archetypal acting credit. He went connected to look successful 2 films - North Hollywood and The Line - arsenic good arsenic successful euphony videos with Becky G, Karol G and Juice WRLD.

Tributes person poured successful since the quality of his passing connected Monday. The origin of his decease has not been confirmed.

He reportedly spoke of the overwhelming grief helium felt from the caller decease of his father, with whom helium was close, and had been staying with household since returning past week from the ceremonial successful Ireland.

In his last quality connected Euphoria, Cloud's quality is changeable successful the enactment of helping his "brother" Ashtray, played by Javon Walton.

Walton paid tribute to his co-star Monday connected Instagram, writing: "Rest easy, brother."

"It's a existent American tragedy," said Ms Hendricks.

"Everybody was successful emotion with Angus and helium shared a batch of his emotion with a batch of people. I don't cognize if helium had immoderate near for himself."