By Deepa Lakshmin
When Cassie Howard (Sydney Sweeney) crashed her faculty’s play within the explosive season 2 finale of HBO’s Euphoria, the scholars within the viewers had been on the sting of their seats — and so had been the real-life viewers watching the HBO drama at house. What unfolded subsequent was pure chaos: Cassie and Maddy Perez (Alexa Demie) screamed, slapped, chased, and clawed at one another onstage to hash out how their friendship had fallen aside thanks partially to their poisonous entanglements with Nate Jacobs (Jacob Elordi). Oof.
Maybe unsurprisingly, this public brawl snagged the Finest Struggle award on Sunday evening (June 5) on the 2022 MTV Film & TV Awards in Santa Monica, the place Sweeney accepted a Golden Popcorn at Barker Hangar. Cassie vs. Maddy received out in opposition to Black Widow’s Black Widow vs. Widows, Free Man’s Man vs. Dude, Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings’ bus struggle, and Spider-Man: No Method Dwelling’s finish battle.
“I want Alexa was right here in order that she might thank the superb followers that we now have, since you all are so unimaginable,” Sweeney mentioned. “However I’ve to be sincere, Maddie may need gotten the final punch, however Cassie has by no means, ever been happier.”
As Euphoria followers certainly keep in mind, this final line is a reference to Cassie’s now-iconic line — “I’ve by no means, ever been happier” — that she says within the ladies’ rest room whereas hysterically crying about her relationship with Nate. And let’s not overlook Maddy’s fan-favorite line that’s now become an inescapable TikTok sound: “Wait, is that this fucking play about us?”
Seems, Cassie’s sister and playwright Lexi (Maude Apatow) penned the script based mostly on her household and buddies’ actual lives. Cassie and Maddy weren’t having it, however the remainder of the viewers liked the efficiency’s messy flip, with Rue Bennett (Zendaya) and Jules Vaughn (Hunter Schafer) cheering for extra. And so, drama be damned, the present went on
The 2022 MTV Film & TV Awards are airing reside from the Barker Hangar in L.A. proper now on MTV, with the Film & TV Awards: UNSCRIPTED to comply with. Discover all of the winners right here.
