On TikTok, Kaya Scodelario jokes about Skins’ violence against Euphoria

When we have already seen the series Skins, Euphoria it may look like cat pee. Unforgettable interpreter of the character of Effy Stonem in the British series, Kaya Scodelario has just returned to this topic.

Kaya Scodelario jokes about Skins’ violence with respect to Euphoria

In a video published on July 26, 2022 on the TikTok platform, to which she has just joined with an official and certified account, the actress, now 30, films herself in surprise, in a video topped with the words:

“Watching Euphoria for the first time thinking about how crazy it is to do all this at 17, then remembering what I was doing on TV at 14”

In the caption, the actress states:

“I will always be grateful. But yes, protection was clearly not common at the time “

For the context, Kaya Scodelario, born in 1992, landed the role of Elizabeth Stonem, known as Effy, at the age of 14 (when the other actors in the cast were mostly adults only), in 2007. When her participation in the series at the end, in 2010, is therefore just 18 years old (although a seventh and final season of six episodes called her back in 2013).

Was Skins a more violent teen series than Euphoria?

And in this series, there were many stripped scenes, drug taking, bad trips, consensual sex but also physical and sexual violence. Not to mention the multiple mental disorders evoked and developed in the series, as well as the psychological abuses that the characters inflicted on each other.

Also, among the many comments, one asks the actress if she participates Skins at such a young age it impacted her mental health. To which Kaya Scodelario replies:

“Yes. It was a great experience at that time, but also the deep root of many of my current problems. But it still gave me the opportunity to do the job I love. “

Long before the explosion of #MeToo and the widespread awareness of gender and sexual violence, as well as its psychological and social impact, which greatly influenced the writing of today’s series, series Skins it can therefore appear particularly brutal to contemporary eyes.

That’s why Kaya Scodelario’s video has already collected more than 7 million views and numerous comments, right on the day of its publication. Although the actress isn’t the first cast member of Skins expressing oneself on the subject (April Pearson and Laya Lewis did so much more explicitly in May 2021, for example), brings a mind-boggling perspective on what we wrote, filmed and showed on television some time ago, just a few years ago . And what the production of these teen-oriented series has done to a cast of teenagers. Contrary to Euphoriawhich is more explicitly intended for an adult audience …

Front page photo credit: TikTok screenshot.