RUE DIES, FEZCO LIVES –
June 2, 2026 – At a screening of the finale in New York City on Sunday night, the HBO series’ creator Sam Levinson dedicated his opening remarks to the late actor, who died at age 25 in 2023 from an accidental overdose. “Moments like these are rare. This season we lost Angus. Many of you loved him the way I did. He deserved more time, a longer, fuller life, ” Sam Levinson said while speaking about Angus Cloud, who played drug dealer Fezco and died in real life from an accidental overdose, at a screening of Euphoria’s season three finale Sunday night that The Hollywood Reporter attended. “But he was taken, like far too many people in this country, by fentanyl.” During a dream sequence before Rue fatally overdoses on Percocet laced with fentanyl, she sees a news report claiming that Fez has escaped prison and sets out to find him. She arrives at the gas station where he once sold drugs, and an unseen clip of Fez and Rue standing together in a field appears on screen, smiling as they look out toward the horizon.
