One of the strongest draws to Euphoria is that it sheds light on the real, sometimes hard-to-discuss aspects of being in high school — acne included.
"For the first few episodes, I was breaking out — I usually break out on my cheek in a very specific area — but nobody did anything specifically to get rid of pimples," Ferreira said. "We were like, 'We're playing teenagers, teenagers break out, what's the big deal?'"
Sometimes, the show's makeup artists Doniella Davy and Kirsten Coleman even accentuated her spots. "They would actually add red to it to make it more textured because they wanted to really show it. For three episodes, I had my temples accentuated, with a little more red gooeyness to it, you know? "We wanted it to be realistic even within this unrealistic space of a really cool teen fiction show. It was all grounded in so much reality." (If you didn't notice the blemishes, though, that's cool too — "it's probably just because the lighting is very moody," she laughed.)