With the most shocking death in the Euphoria Season 3 finale giving way to a Quentin Tarantino-esque revenge showdown, actor Colman Domingo has explained why the climactic scene unfolds in such a brutal manner. In a recent interview, he shed light on Ali’s vengeful rampage in the Euphoria finale, adding context to his character’s violent reaction to the death of Rue Bennett (Zendaya).
Colman Domingo explains Ali’s revenge in Euphoria Season 3 finale
The Sing Sing star revealed that Ali decided to avenge Rue’s death by taking down her drug dealers as he viewed the troubled youngster as his “last chance for redemption.”
In the penultimate episode of Euphoria Season 3, viewers got a glimpse of Ali’s past. He not only cheats on his wife but also ends up distancing himself from his daughters due to his addiction. While Ali fails to reconnect with his family in the subsequent years, he begins caring for Rue like his “surrogate” daughter.
“Once he got to know her, he was trying a different tactic of listening and trying to be honest,” Colman Domingo noted while speaking with Variety. “He doesn’t have a relationship with his own two girls, so Rue was like a surrogate for him, and he was a surrogate for her.”
Domingo added, “He was like, ‘Maybe I can be the man that I need to be with this young woman and help her live to her fullest potential. I can take this young person who’s struggling and make them better.’ He started to invest himself in Rue and got to know her tenderness and her hopes, her dreams, her aspirations, her faults. He fell in love with her. That’s like his daughter.”
As such, while grieving Rue’s death in the Euphoria Season 3 finale, Ali decides to go on a mission to eliminate the person responsible for supplying fentanyl to his sobriety sponsee. He eventually finds Alamo (Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje) at the Silver Slipper. After an explosive face-off, Ali walks away after shooting the strip-club mogul dead.
Elaborating on Ali’s state of mind after killing Alamo, Colman Domingo shared, “He’s sort of… I wouldn’t say dead, but deadened. But he feels like, ‘At least I killed off a big part of this system. Maybe that will resonate in some way. People will stand up and say, ‘No, you can’t use women like that. You can’t treat humans like that.” He’s making a statement. And that liberates him.”
Meanwhile, despite its popularity, HBO has confirmed that Euphoria has officially concluded, ruling out all possibilities for a Season 4.
Originally reported by Apoorv Rastogi on ComingSoon.net.
