Angus Cloud has died following a “possible overdose.”
The actor had been struggling since the death of his father in May.
Conor Hickey, Angus’ dad, died on May 18, not long after being diagnosed with cancer. Cloud had posted recently on Instagram about the devastating loss. Family says Hickey was Cloud’s best friend. They had recently returned from Ireland, where Hickey was laid to rest.
Cloud shot to fame as Fezco / “Fez” on Euphoria. Cloud was “street cast” for the role, meaning he got the role with no acting experience. Cloud shared the story with GQ:
So Cloud was walking down that street when he was stopped by a pushy representative who said she worked for a casting company, asking him to come in to read for a new TV series. “I was confused and I didn’t want to give her my phone number,” he says. “I thought it was a scam.” But then, later, he later found himself in a nondescript room, filled with very serious people very seriously staring at him as he read lines from what would become Euphoria’s first episode. “I had to change it a little bit,” he says of the pages he was given. “To make it sound real, like how I would say it.”
Cloud was asked back to read again, this time with the pilot’s director, Augustine Frizzell. He had moved to New York on a whim nearly two years prior to that chance encounter after buying a one-way ticket to visit friends out east and then never bothering with a return flight. He started working in what he describes as a “chicken and waffle joint” and was living in Bushwick. But then, last summer, after acing his second reading, he found himself in the first class cabin on a flight out to Los Angeles to shoot the show’s pilot.
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