‘Euphoria’ Star Chloe Cherry Reacts to Faye’s Open Ending and Rue’s Fate (Exclusive)

Euphoria‘s third and final season has come to a close, revealing the shocking fates of many characters, Rue (Zendaya) included. But what happened to Chloe Cherry‘s Faye? Warning: Spoilers for the Euphoria Season 3 finale ahead!

As viewers see in the finale episode, Faye managed to escape the DEA raid on Laurie’s (Martha Kelly) farmhouse and made a run for it with boyfriend Wayne (Toby Wallace). But did they manage to find the life they were in search of? The actress opens up about her ending, reacting to the show’s emotional conclusion, where she thinks Faye ended up, and much more in the Q&A below.

How did you feel about your ending in the series? 

Chloe Cherry: I’m glad that Faye got to get away and that there’s some chance that she is living on a farm somewhere with Wayne, raising animals and their babies, and that they’re never around drugs again, like what she and Wayne wanted. I really hope that that’s their ending, and I just hope that they go off and are not connected to all the violence and death. I was so deeply emotionally moved by last night’s episode and Rue’s death and how it all played out. I was crying a lot over the whole story, but not my character. I wasn’t crying over my character. I was crying over Rue and Ali.

Faye ultimately sends Rue on the run when she alerts Wayne of her infiltration of the safe. How do you think she feels about betraying Rue at that point, and would she feel differently considering how Rue’s fate plays out? 

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In that moment, I think Faye thinks Rue is trying to outsmart her or something, when in reality, Rue is not holding together at all. I think that at the end, they’re in the safe, and Rue promises that she’s going to give Faye all this money, and Faye’s like, “Oh, this is my way out,” and the moment that she [realizes] Rue isn’t my way out of this, then it’s got to be Wayne, because all she just wants is to get away from the death and the violence and the crimes. I like to imagine that Faye and Wayne went off, and Wayne was able to find work somewhere, and now they just live on a farm and have an extremely peaceful life.

What Faye’s really running from [is she] just can’t stand having such a f**ked up life. The main thesis of her character is just, why am I the only one that’s loyal? I don’t think that Faye is even aware that Rue has like all this stuff going on with Alamo and the DEA. She just thinks that Rue is trying to take the money for herself or something because Faye doesn’t know she also has all this other stuff going on.

Do you think Faye would feel bad about Laurie’s fate in the DEA raid?

I really think that Faye feels bad about Laurie’s fate because Laurie is another person who became trapped in selling drugs. In Season 2, they talk about how she used to be a teacher, and then she got an injury that led her to become addicted to this stuff, and she couldn’t work. It’s a very real thing living in America: having an injury can actually f**k someone’s life up so badly that they end up not being able to work, or they end up being homeless.

I think that Faye can see Laurie beyond just a mean, drug-dealing lady. But I don’t think that Faye knows Laurie killed herself. I’m not sure if she’s aware, but I really don’t think she is. I think that would make Faye really sad because she could see Laurie as more than just a drug dealer in the way that Laurie tried to see Faye as more than just a junkie.

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While Faye does seem to be committed to Wayne, does the fact that he’s a Nazi give her any apprehensions…?

Faye doesn’t like that, but I think it just kind of shows how desperate and down and out Faye is. She thinks that the Nazi things are so f**ked up. But she’s in so much turmoil; she’s just like, “whatever’s gonna get me out of here.” She’s gonna eventually cover up that tattoo and everything. I think that Faye does see red flags, but just ends up being so desperate for a place to go, a home of some kind, that she’s just like, “Sure, I’ll take this guy for now.”

Did Faye and Wayne ambush that car in the end?

No, we were supposed to be hitchhiking in it. We’re just in the car riding, and then they’re going to drop us off at a nondescript location, and we’re going to be on our way, and we’re going to pretend like we didn’t do any of that stuff we did before.

You talked about how emotional it was watching the finale. How do you think Faye would react to the idea of Fezco (Angus Cloud) breaking out of prison? 

When they put on the news of Fezco trying to escape, I literally jumped up in the air. And I was watching it so closely, but then I started to realize that all this is part of Rue’s life flashing before her eyes, that like none of that was real, when she tried to find Fez. But that was all kind of like her death dream.

Do you think in the real-world of Euphoria that Faye would reach out to Fezco after all of this? 

I genuinely think that Faye would reach out to Fez in prison for the next 30 years. She’ll never ever stop reaching out to him in prison because, at the end of the day, Faye is still a human, and I think that there’s no way on earth that she can just go through life becoming close to people, bonding with them, and then they just go away forever, and she doesn’t care. She’ll forever want to call Fezco and give him updates about things.

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