-You know my next guest as Jules from the hit show "Euphoria," which is back with
a special episode this weekend. "Part 2: Jules"
premieres early this Friday at 9:00 p.m. on HBO Max and airs Sunday
at 9:00 p.m. on HBO. Ladies and gentlemen,
please welcome, Hunter Schafer! ♪♪ ♪ Hunter Schafer,
breaking all the rules ♪ ♪ On "Euphoria,"
doing her thing as Jules ♪ ♪ Hunter Schafer,
gotta see the show ♪ ♪ And it's streamin' now, HBO ♪ -I am so happy you're here.
-Hi! -Hi.
Thank you for being here. Thank you for being here
in studio. -Thank you, yeah, I know.
I'm so happy this could happen. -And inauguration day.
-I know. It's really wholesome vibes.
-It is wholesome vibes. Yeah.
-Yeah. -I have a big question for you.
-Mm-hmm. -You bought a truck.
-Yes. -Talk to me about this, because
you came to the right person. -Yeah, I heard
you have a truck, as well. -Yeah, a lot of people
hear that. -Yeah.
[ Laughter ] Yeah, no, it sounds cool to say. -Right, it does feel cool
to say that. -Yeah.
I was stewing in L.A., like, for the first three
or four months in quarantine, and was rather frustrated
with not really being able to go anywhere,
because you kind of -- you need a car in L.A.
to, like, go places. -Yeah, you really do.
-Yeah. So I was like,
"Screw it. I'm doin' this." And I wanted a truck,
because I kind of had this fantasy of, like,
being dressed up, like, super high fem,
kind of like this, and then -- but, you know, being in a truck,
like... -Yeah. No, exactly.
Yeah. Okay. You got elbow
out the window, cruisin'. Yeah.
-Yeah. What kind of truck do you have? -Oh, my gosh.
Ford F-150. -Ford F-150?
That's pretty bad-ass. -It's really --
It's unbelievable. It's got, like,
big wheels and everything. It's cool.
[ Laughter ] All right. So now --
You're doing this. You have the special episode
of "Euphoria." Can you describe "Euphoria"?
-Yeah. To put it simply, it's a show that follows
a group of high schoolers navigating addiction, sex,
drugs, family dynamics, life. -Yes.
-Yeah. -The description I heard
when it first came out, they said, "As a parent,
I wouldn't watch this show if I were you,
and I go, "What?" Like, "Wait.
What are you talking about?" So I kind of
shied away at first. But this one, though,
you co-wrote and produced. -Yeah.
-How did you get around to doing that?
-Yeah. Well, I mean, Sam, the writer,
director, creator of the show, and I were talking a lot
over quarantine. And this was kind of happening while I drove
across the country. So I'd been in North Carolina
for a little bit, and I -- I have to be honest. I was not doing super well
mentally at that time. You know, as quarantine
has put a lot of us. -Yeah, a lot of people
can relate, yeah. -And I had taken it upon myself
to research mental hospitals in North Carolina.
And, um... -Really?
-Yes. And I was -- 'Cause, you know, I was like,
"It might be a good decision to do that with where I was at."
-Wow. Good for you. -But they all of them had
terrible reviews on Google Maps. You know?
-You're Yelping reviews for mental hospitals?
-Well, yeah, 'cause, like, I wanted to know, like --
I, fortunately, haven't been to one before,
and I was like, "Okay. Like, where can I go
that would be good?" And then Sam called me
later that day, and -- and I was like, "Sam, I've been
researching mental hospitals for like two hours.
Like, why do they all have terrible reviews?
Like, I can't find any that are good."
He was like, "Well, Hunter, no one likes
being at mental hospitals." -No kidding.
-"No one's going to leave a good review
for a mental hospital." -A four-star review.
"Oh, yeah, I gotta go back. This was unbelievable."
Yeah. -We started tossing around ideas
for the episode again, and I wrote the episode
instead of going to that kind of institution.
-Wow! -Yeah.
-And of got a smile on your face.
-Yeah. -That's an unbelievable story.
-Yeah. -Good for you
for talking to him. -Yeah.
-That's wild. -Which isn't to say that,
you know -- I think mental hospitals are
great if you need to go to them. -Oh, absolutely, yeah. You should, absolutely,
if you need to go. -Do not decide with the reviews.
-Don't go by the Yelp reviews. -No, no, no. If you need to go
get help, you should get help. But I love
that you talked it out, and look at what you got
out of it -- you got art out of this.
-Yeah! Well, yeah. And it was just really nice
to be able to put my energy into something,
and Sam was so collaborative. -And do you know
how to write a script? I'm sorry to --
-I did take Shonda Rhimes' Master Class
earlier in quarantine. 'Cause I got into
"Grey's Anatomy," like, when I was stewing in L.A.,
before truck. -Okay. Pre-truck, you got into
"Grey's Anatomy." -Yeah.
-That's a lot to get into. -Yeah. Started watching
eight hours of "Grey's Anatomy" and then I would watch her
Master Class. So I picked up some --
some skills, I think, from that. -So we have Shonda Rhimes
to thank for this episode, in a weird way.
-Thank you, Shonda Rhimes. -Does she know this at all? -I don't know her, I mean... That would be cool if she did,
though. -Yeah. She will now.
-Yeah. -Well, I'm psyched
that you're here, and I'm psyched
to see this special here. I think -- I might --
I can watch this, right? -Yeah.
-It's your work, I have to. I want to show everyone a clip.
Here's Hunter Schafer in this weekend's special
episode of "Euphoria." Take a look. ♪♪ -At least for me,
being trans is spiritual. You know, it's not religious, it's not like
for some congregation. It's for me. It's mine.
It belongs to me. And I don't ever
want to stand still. Like... I want to be alive. I mean, that's what this has
always been about is, like...staying alive. [ Applause ] -Hunter Schafer, everybody! The second special episode
of "Euphoria," "Part 2: Jules," premieres this weekend
on HBO and HBO Max.
She was great but sooo nervous, hopefully now her profiles growing she’ll get more chance to practice and get comfortable plus a little bit of media training wouldn’t go amiss just to improve her confidence.
Jimmy is so out of his depth interviewing the youth. His persona isn't able to engage emotionally with the guests so he ends up just making corny jokes as Hunter tries to hold both sides of an earnest discussion by herself, pls go on Colbert instead next time.
Respect for bringing such a crazy story as your canned talk show bit though.
Does anybody else hears her voice a bit more nasal, like a little congested? Let's hope it's nothing! She was super cute on this interview, can't wait for her episode, she's my favorite!
HBO Max on Friday THEN HBO on Sunday..thats a ripper..
This shows how good of an actress she is. Jules seems so graceful and self possessed but hunter actually comes of kinda of goofy and awkward in an endearing and approachable way.