Ashtray, he doesn’t have a lot of dialogue, right? But you can tell what he’s saying just by looking through his eyes. Because it’s this deep space that you have to connect to. Honestly, especially for the finale, you have to really hone in and have your own space for a minute to really go there. How do you prepare for your more intense scenes, like the SWAT team shootout? I might not be super clear on exactly what that could be, but it’s definitely something super deep. There’s definitely a story behind all that. Because he’s even way angrier than Fezco. Some of the things I’ve imagined when he was really little, how his parents would treat him. That’s something that is the main thing about him. But anger comes from him, so he definitely comes from a really angry side. His family, his dad, his mom, because we don’t really get to see any of that. I’ve definitely thought about what his backstory could be, the character and everything that’s behind. Have you spent much time thinking about where he comes from? I believe he has a shot about being around for Season 3.Īshtray’s background is such a mystery. Because if there’s somebody who could take a bullet in the show, it’s Ashtray. There’s definitely hope for Ashtray to still be alive. It seems unlikely, but some people think Ashtray might still be alive. Because they know - I’m a really private person. Some do, no doubt, but they don’t really talk to me too much about it. Sometimes it does a little bit, but people are usually super respectful about it. So I love that! Do your classmates watch the show? Does it feel weird to be in classes while you have this whole other life? It’s called Team Sports, and basically you just mess around and play basketball. And overall, I’m not a big fan of school. And school today - it’s school at the end of the day. What grade are you in? And how was school today? After a long day of classes, the young actor logged onto Zoom to tell Variety about his hopes for Ashtray’s future and how his boxing career landed him a role in the hottest teen drama on television.
And he is smart and very, very confident,” he says. (Though it may be important to note that we never see it.)īut Walton doesn’t define his character by his violent streak alone. We hear the thud of his body hitting the floor. But Ash refuses to surrender, and ends up in a shootout with a SWAT team. When Ash stabs Custer (Tyler Chase) in the neck for working with the police to take him and Fez down, Fez begs his little brother to let him handle it, determined to take the fall himself. Twice in the show’s second season, that manifests in his split-second decisions to brutally kill people. No character in “Euphoria” goes an episode without incurring new trauma, but Ashtray is more hardened than even Fez and Rue (Zendaya), because he was the earliest to be robbed of a childhood.Īfter a mix of drugs, abandonment and violence forced an elementary school-aged Fez into the position of raising baby Ash by himself, Ash grew up with a deep well of anger and a fearlessness of violence. Played by 15-year-old Javon Walton, Ashtray is simultaneously the cutest and the scariest thing about Sam Levinson’s “Euphoria.” The unofficially adopted brother of Fezco (Angus Cloud) is a whiz kid when it comes to selling drugs, converting black market cryptocurrency and predicting the moves of the shady figures that haunt his suburb. But it was pretty cool in hindsight.SPOILER ALERT: This interview contains spoilers for the Season 2 finale of “ Euphoria,” which aired on HBO on Feb. I have a magazine cover for Wonderland and you can see the cuts on my arm. And it was definitely the most fulfilling thing that I've sort of ever shot. It was incredibly grueling, but it was so worthwhile and I definitely couldn't have done it without Eric and Sam kind of walking me through it and helping me out. So it was almost like this massive letting go of everything over the eight months that we filmed. I was just wrapping the show around that time. It was really, really gnarly, but it came at the end of my shooting period. And Eric and I, we're incredibly close, so I basically said to him, "Let's rock and roll and make it sort of as real as possible," because I think it's super important and he was on board as well. And then when we give each other the head nod, it kind of means that we're just going to go for it when the camera rolls. It was physically grueling, but Sam and I kind of have this head nod when there's an intense scene and the stunt guys would kind of lay it out for us.
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