Dream state

By staying true to who she is, fashion magpie and star of hit series Euphoria HUNTER SCHAFER has emerged as the most exciting new face on TV

- MARSHALL HEYMAN

Whoever says overnight success doesn’t exist, clearly didn’t watch the first season of Euphoria last year.

Before the show premiered, we were living in a world without Hunter Schafer. Now the zeitgeist can’t get enough of the gorgeous 21-year-old model and trans actor, who looks like the androgynous love child of Tilda Swinton and David Bowie.

In the show, Schafer is Jules Vaughn, a transfeminine high school student who befriends/has a romance with classmate Rue Bennett (Zendaya), a 17-year-old addict just out of rehab. Euphoria marked Schafer’s first foray into acting after she saw a casting call on Instagram. It wasn’t until filming started on the sixth episode or so that the former runway model (she’s walked for Miu Miu, Marc Jacobs and Christian Dior) realized she could do it. “I’m comfortable with this,” she recalls thinking. “I know Jules.”