Tyler Joe This post contains spoilers for the end of Euphoria Season Two.At Javon Walton’s high school, there’s no play with a six-figure budget, no kids in the audience of such a production who look exactly like Tom Holland, no six-and-a-half-feet-tall psychomaniacs stalking the hallways, and definitely no underworld of drugs with names you’ve never heard before. At least to Walton’s knowledge. “I don’t go to parties,” the actor, 15, makes sure to tell me, “but there’ll be parties. They get busted for drugs, but it’s definitely not as intense as Euphoria.” You certainly hope not. In Euphoria, HBO’s prestige-y portrait of Gen Z, Walton plays the hyper-witted Ashtray, the adopted younger brother of Angus Cloud’s Fezco. The show, which debuted its season finale Sunday night—and seemingly sealed Ashtray’s fate—was Walton’s first TV gig. He was 11 years old. Now, talking to me over Zoom a few days before that episode airs, 15. Which means that Javon Walton is the the only actor among Euphoria’s ranks actually qualified to speak about whether or not the series gets high school right. (Zendaya: 25. Hunter Schaefer: 23 Dominic Fike: 26.) This year, for the first time since the second grade, Walton is back in a living, breathing school, one stuffed with thousands of other kids and the third best baseball team in the country. He’s been through years of homeschooling, due to his boxing career—Walton, no big deal, i… Click below to read the full story from Esquire
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