![]() While his performance may owe something to method acting, it’s clear Euphoria’s impact has been life-changing for him. Despite being high during several of his scenes, and almost getting kicked off the show as a result, Fike remained, and received rave reviews. Like Fike, Cloud was cast despite having no previous acting experience and also struggled with addiction issues on set. I was pretty addicted to shit.”įike’s Euphoria co-star Angus Cloud died of a suspected overdose in July. “And then Sam was like: ‘We’ll get you a sober coach,’ and I was like: ‘Yeah dude, that’s fine: sober coach.’ I just did not care. “I was using at the time, but I wasn’t worried. Was he at all worried about managing his problem on the set of a show about drug addicts? The show is arguably the defining portrait of gen Z and in Elliot, the mysterious guitar-playing drug addict who comes between Rue (Zendaya) and Jules (Hunter Schafer), Fike has found a perfect fit – not least because the role had striking parallels with his own situation at the time. If Fike’s music has not quite turned him into a household name, the same “it” that made him catnip to label executives also caught the attention of Hollywood casting agents. I wish I could be this huge pop star and have a drink and not have a bunch of anxiety I just kind of thought that was how you did drugs – to go all the way there without dying,” he says. “Whatever drug I would do, I’d do too much of it – to a near-death, surreal experience. Fike’s traumatic childhood was exacerbated by his own “overdoing it” with drugs and alcohol. His mum was in and out of jail and her frequent absence meant he and his siblings had to take care of each other from a young age. Both his parents were heroin addicts, although his father was barely present. It’s like you’d see on your computer: ‘You’ve won a million dollars!’”įike, who is of Filipino, Haitian and African-American descent, grew up in the retirement town of Naples, Florida. “You’ve got to factcheck things like that. ![]() “I spent a couple of days taking a crack at it after it was confirmed to be a real opportunity,” Fike recalls. He even covered Paul McCartney’s The Kiss of Venus the song was released as the lead single from the remix album McCartney III Imagined and drew lavish praise from the man himself. The role of Dominic Fike: Pop Star is one he has attempted to play on songs with Brockhampton, Halsey and Justin Bieber. “When you look at somebody like fucking Harry Styles, that’s just a well-oiled machine, they really just have perfected a formula that is fitting for this one guy or this one idea.” “All I know is I’m pushing forward regardless of expectation,” he says. The huge figure has led to accusations that Fike was an “industry plant”: a manufactured blend of pop, rock, rap and cheekbones – except with added authenticity via his face tattoos, struggles with addiction and jail time. In the end, the demos resulted in a reported $3-4m deal. “Idle hands are the devil’s work … the cool part about the label thing is that it helped me keep my shit together in jail.” Meticulously planning what you’re going to say to salivating label executives is one way to get through a stretch, but for Fike it wasn’t so much the potential riches on offer as the sense of stardom as a lifeboat. Photograph: Daniel DeSlover/Zuma Press Wire/Shutterstock Taxes, fees not included for deals content.Staging post … Dominic Fike at Coachella festival in California this April. If you have any questions or suggestions regarding this matter, you are welcome to contact our customer support team.īusinessYab is not a booking agent, and does not charge any service fees to users of our site.īusinessYab is not responsible for content on external web sites. The brand names, logos, images and texts are the property of these third parties and their respective owners. BusinessYab cannot be held responsible or liable for the accuracy, correctness, usefulness or reliability of the data. The content displayed in the BusinessYab Directory consists of information from third parties, among others from publicly accessible sources, or from customers, who have a presentation page in our directory. ![]() © 2023 All Rights reserved.Īt BusinessYab our purpose is to help people find great local businesses like dentists, hair stylists, restaurants, bars, hotels, local businesses. ![]()
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