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“Moments like this are rare. This season we lost Angus. So many of you loved him the way I did. He deserved more time, and a longer, fuller life,” Sam Levinson said while talking about Angus Cloud, who played drug dealer Fizco and died in real life of an accidental overdose. trance Season 3 on Sunday night that Hollywood Reporter civilized region. “But he, like a lot of people in this country, was taken by fentanyl.”
After the season 3 premiere trance It opened with a tribute to Eric Dane, who played Nate’s father, Cal, and died in February after battling amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, and some fans wondered why Cloud wasn’t honored as well.
The answer is that Vizco lived in the series. In a tearful post-show clip after the premiere, Levinson explained that “Angus didn’t make it in real life, so at least in the make-up world.” trance, He’s still alive. It was revealed in the episode that Fez was serving a 30-year prison sentence after his home was raided in season two.
Throughout Season 3, Fez remains a presence despite never appearing on screen. Rue made mention of speaking to him on the phone, while Lexie (Maude Apatow), who had a relationship with Fez in previous seasons, also mentioned him in conversations with Rue.
However, the audience did not actually see Fez until the end of Sunday night. During a dream sequence before Rue fatally overdoses on fentanyl-laced Percocet, she sees a news report claiming that Fez has escaped from 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, smiling as they look toward the horizon, appears on the screen. according to Respected, The footage had never been used before in the series.
Cloud died in 2023 at the age of 25 from acute poisoning after an accidental overdose, just one year after the second season aired. Fentanyl was among the substances in his system, making Rowe’s eventual fate all the more poignant.
At the Season 3 premiere in Los Angeles last month, Levinson spoke about how Cloud’s death affected him and the direction of the series.
“I loved Angus dearly and I fought hard to keep him clean while he was here. I think when he died, it made me step back and go, What is the story I want to tell, what do I want to say? What does it matter in life?” Levinson said THR. “And if I was going to do another season, I wanted to make sure it spoke to a bigger idea of meaning and purpose and who we are. It made me want to address the idea of faith and belief in something greater than ourselves.”
Shortly after the finale was released, Levinson and HBO confirmed that the third season would be the series’ last.
Jackie Strauss contributed to this report.
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