Nika King isn’t holding again her ideas on Sunday evening’s episode of Euphoria.
King, who performs Rue’s (Zendaya) mom Leslie, lastly appeared in season three, episode six, “Stand Still and See,” when Rue obtained a shock name from her mother. In the course of the dialog, Rue spoke about attempting to make higher selections after the harmful work she’s been concerned in. Nonetheless, many of the scene was proven from Rue’s perspective, with the digicam solely briefly reducing to King on the opposite finish of the cellphone saying, “I love you, Rue.”
Nonetheless, King was stunned to find she solely had one line within the episode.
Following the episode’s airing, King took to social media to share her response.
“I just watched the episode that I’ve been promoting all week — and my mom over here is clowning me!” King mentioned with amusing. “She said the internet waited all this time for me to just say one line.”
She then turned to her mom, who could possibly be heard within the background including, “three years,” referring to the hole between seasons two and three. Season two premiered in 2022.
“Y’all I can’t do nothing but laugh at this. When your mama clown you. I don’t know,” she continued. “You better be glad I have a sense of humor. You better be glad I’ve got thick skin.”
King additionally revealed the scene she filmed that didn’t make the ultimate reduce in one other Instagram put up shared Tuesday.
“This scene didn’t make the cut but when I walked on set and saw this Bible on the table, I got emotional,” she wrote. “Not as Leslie, but as Nika. Because there have been so many times in my life where all I could do was sit down, open the Word and ask TMH to help me keep going.”
This isn’t the primary time King has been vocal about wanting to seem in additional of Euphoria.
In March 2024, King made headlines for jokes she made during a stand-up set about struggling to pay hire because of the lengthy breaks between seasons of Sam Levinson’s drama sequence.
“Season three is coming out … I don’t fucking know,” the comic mentioned on stage. “Don’t ask me, I don’t know. … ‘We need season three!’ Bitch, I need season three! I haven’t paid my rent in six months. And Zendaya’s over in Paris at Fashion Week. I’m like, ‘Bitch, come home! I need you! Mama needs you.’”
King later walked again the feedback, telling The Hollywood Reporter in an announcement that they have been “a lighthearted joke.”
