Louis Tomlinson Didn't Approve Euphoria's Animated Sex Scene With Harry Styles

HBO's new series Euphoria has been generating a lot of buzz lately, and soon after Sunday night's episode (June 30), it's not hard to understand why. The episode included a fan fiction-inspired animated scene featuring One Direction members Louis Tomlinson and Harry Styles, and much like several fanfics that have existed on the world wide web for years, the cartoon depicted a sexual connection between the two bandmates.


In the episode, fanfic writer Kat Hernandez compiled a story about "Larry Stylinson," which was the ship name fans commonly used for Harry and Louis whenever One Direction was at the height of their fame. Nevertheless as soon as Zendaya's character, Rue Bennett, started talking about Kat's fanfic, an animation depicted a scene in which Harry comforts Louis backstage before a 1D concert and performs oral sex on him.


Inevitably, some Directioners were excited to be able to see the term "Larry Stylinson" show up on their Twitter eats again in 2019. However there were also several other fans who took to social media to express major concerns, like whether or not HBO even reached out to Louis and Harry for approval beforehand.


And any time one fan rather doubted that Louis gave the scene the green light, the "Two of Us" singer confirmed that the cable network never asked for permission to use his name and likeness in the series. "I can categorically mention that I was not contacted nor did I approve it," he wrote.


Clearly, the teen drama — which is co-produced by Drake and explores topics including sex, contraband, social media, anxiety, and more — is fairly controversial. However although Tomlinson didn't approve of the sexually uncensored animated scene, there really are others who've expressed the significance of it, as it shows the world of fanfics in a positive light. Barbie Ferreira, the actress who plays Kat, told The Hollywood Reporter, as soon as I first read the script, that was the opening thing that popped out to me, because I can relate to that as a 22-year-old woman who lived by way of the One Direction age. It's such a reality for so several people, and thus several children and teens that are fans just have this escapist world."


Barbie went on to explain that, for several teens, fanfics are away to escape reality, and some days, they require that more than anything. "You totally give yourself to this persona of a person you don’t even know, or five guys, and imaging the way they interact the escaping from your own reality," she added. "It's really interesting to me because I was certainly a segment of that, where I wanted to escape my own life and concentrate on others because it was easier and felt more meaningful."


As for Styles, well, he's although to comment on the episode, nevertheless certainly, One Direction's fans (us included) would love to know his thoughts on the episode that, quite literally, set the world wide web on fire.