![]() "Sam was like, 'Just throw this line and be like: Yo, are you spiritual?'" And that line, I had to say it super serious. In a deleted scene from Season Two, at Euphoria's Biggie Smalls-soundtracked New Year's party, Walton says that Euphoria creator Sam Levinson had little Ashtray spitting game to a twenty-something-year-old woman. Think back to Season One, where Ashtray quips to Rue, "I thought your ass was dead." If you look at Walton's performance, you might see that it's his natural charisma and humor, in addition to that soul-sucking glare, that steals scenes. I'm a normal kid.") It only takes a couple minutes to understand why a casting agent, after seeing a baby-faced Walton and his father throw hands on The Steve Harvey Show, suggested he audition for Euphoria. ("Because people think that since I play Ashtray, I'm just a mean person in general. Scooches forward and back on his couch every few minutes. This is probably a good time to note that Javon Walton is the happiest damn kid I've ever met. "Because the keys weren't even in there." Most of his other Angus Cloud stories aren't safe to share in a magazine interview, or any other place his parents could find it. "He was sitting in that thing for hours every single day, trying to get that thing going," Walton says. ("He got some hands.") There were deep talks with his on-screen brother and off-screen Shrek superfan, Angus Cloud, who, every single day, would try to steal a golf cart from set. ![]() Walton doesn't have any intel regarding Holland's rumored cameo in the audience of Lexi's play-I asked, I promise-but they did compare boxing notes. Yes, one half of the most tabloided celebrity couple, Tom Holland, visited the other half, Zendaya, on the Euphoria set. To hear Walton tell it, working on Euphoria is nearly as surreal as the show itself. I know it didn't feel good." Poor Eric Dane. It was rubber, but the rubber part would fold and then the real part would hit him. "I think it really hurt him," Walton says. You probably thought that Walton's standout scene of the season, where he bloodies Dane's mad dad, Cal Jacobs with the butt of a shotgun, was choreographed as to not inflict any pain on McDreamy. One day, in Javon Walton's other life-the one where he plays a crypto-proficient, drug-dealing child-he was bashing Eric Dane's face in with a rubber gun. "They get busted for drugs, but it’s definitely not as intense as Euphoria." Tyler Joe How hard do actual Zoomers party? "I don’t go to parties, but there’ll be parties," Walton says. When I ask Walton if Euphoria gets high school right, he says, "Man, I think for some of the hatefulness in the world, it gets some of that right." High schoolers can be mean, if you've already scrubbed that period in your life from your brain. "There's kids that will follow me around, take pictures of me without noticing it," he says. Some of his peers see him as the Euphoria kid. "Teachers can be super nice one day and super mean the next," Walton adds of a problem none of the kiddos in Euphoria ever have to face, due to Euphoria High's apparent shortage of any administrator over the age of 18. Stephens? "My parents wanted to throw me back and I wasn't super supportive of the idea," he says, "But they were." Parents. Would you want to go from hanging out with Angus Cloud to getting your ass up at 6 a.m. He's been through years of homeschooling, due to his boxing career-Walton, no big deal, is an impressively accoladed boxer training for the 2024 Summer Olympics-and later, the acting, too. This year, for the first time since the second grade, Walton is back in a living, breathing school, one stuffed with thousands of other kids and the third best baseball team in the country. Which means that Javon Walton is the the only actor among Euphoria's ranks actually qualified to speak about whether or not the series gets high school right. Now, talking to me over Zoom a few days before that episode airs, 15. The show, which debuted its season finale Sunday night-and seemingly sealed Ashtray's fate-was Walton's first TV gig. In Euphoria, HBO's prestige-y portrait of Gen Z, Walton plays the hyper-witted Ashtray, the adopted younger brother of Angus Cloud's Fezco. Jacob Elordi Is Young and Restless and Homesick.
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