No matter how hard he tries, Louis Tomlinson can’t escape the spectre of Larry Stylinson. This time, Larry the “ship” name fans concocted for Louis and bandmate Harry Styles during One Direction’s era as the biggest boyband in existence – has reared its head once more during an episode of HBO’s new teen drama, Euphoria.
Starring Zendaya, Euphoria follows a group of high schoolers as they navigate drug abuse, sex, social media and pornography. One character Kat, played by Barbie Ferreira, feels like an outcast at school, but finds fame online as a writer of erotic One Direction fan fiction. In the show’s third episode, which aired on Sunday in America, Kat’s steamy slash fiction was animated on screen for viewers to see: namely, drawings of Harry Styles and Louis Tomlinson getting it on.
For One Direction fans, this animated sequence was too much. On Twitter, they dubbed the scene “embarrassing”. “If euphoria really has an animated larry sex scene I am going to be LIVID that’s so disrespectful and fucking GROSS,” wrote one user.
Speaking to The Los Angeles Times, Euphoria showrunner and writer, Sam Levinson, said that he had decided to include the scene because “something that I thought was a fascinating or exciting idea was to take this burgeoning curiosity about sexuality, that’s ultimately framed through the lens of fan fiction, and allow it to come to life”. He explained that for the animation, he was inspired by the 1973 erotic and psychedelic animated film, Belladonna of Sadness.
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