{"id":26356,"date":"2019-07-01T17:20:08","date_gmt":"2019-07-01T23:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b1053690"},"modified":"2019-07-01T17:20:08","modified_gmt":"2019-07-01T23:20:08","slug":"louis-tomlinson-breaks-silence-over-sexually-explicit-harry-styles-scene-on-hbos-euphoria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/music-news\/louis-tomlinson-breaks-silence-over-sexually-explicit-harry-styles-scene-on-hbos-euphoria\/","title":{"rendered":"Louis Tomlinson Breaks Silence Over Sexually Explicit Harry Styles Scene on HBO&#8217;s Euphoria"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"photo-txt-0\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"41.6875\">\n<div class=\"column post-content__image--left post-content__image\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\"> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image--full\" src=\"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/201961\/rs_758x1024-190701154844-634-louis-tomlinson-harry-styles.cl.070119.jpg?fit=inside|900:auto&amp;output-quality=90\" title=\" Louis Tomlinson, Harry Styles\" alt=\" Louis Tomlinson, Harry Styles\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"image__credits\">Karwai Tang\/WireImage<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-photo-text\" readability=\"25.848614072495\">\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/louis_tomlinson\">Louis Tomlinson<\/a><\/strong> is speaking out.<\/p>\n<p>The former <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/one_direction\">One Direction<\/a><\/strong> member took to Twitter on Monday morning to share his thoughts on HBO&#8217;s buzzed about show, <em>Euphoria<\/em>.&nbsp;During the series&#8217; third episode, there&#8217;s a&nbsp;scene that depicted the&nbsp;27-year-old English singer and <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/harry_styles\">Harry Styles<\/a><\/strong> in a graphic light.<\/p>\n<p>In the episode, fan-fiction writer Kat Hernandez (played by <strong>Barbie Ferreira<\/strong>) writes a story about &#8220;Larry Stylinson,&#8221; the celebrity-esque nickname for her fictional&nbsp;same-sex&nbsp;couple, Louis and Harry. At this point, the show changes into an animated scene of the two fictional characters. There&#8217;s&nbsp;a&nbsp;moment where Harry&nbsp;comforts&nbsp;Louis before his concert, because he&#8217;s nervous-sweating, by&nbsp;performing&nbsp;oral sex on him.<\/p>\n<p>However, due to the nature of the scene, fans quickly took to social media&nbsp;and wondered if HBO reached out to the former One Direction members for approval.<\/p>\n<p>According to the &#8220;Two of Us&#8221; singer, that wasn&#8217;t the case for him.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-2\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"59.313725490196\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"10.78431372549\">\n<p>&#8220;Just going to sit and hope that they for some reason approved it because surely they had to to get it aired,&#8221; one fan shared on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Louis_Tomlinson\/status\/1145753419447177218\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Twitter<\/a>, tagging Louis. &#8220;Harry seems quite friendly with the people involved but u can just TELL louis&#8217; not gonna like it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He responded, bluntly. &#8220;I can categorically say that I was not contacted nor did I approve it,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"socialcontent-twitter-3\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" data-type=\"async\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"50.491803278689\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"4.5081967213115\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\" xml:lang=\"en\">I can categorically say that I was not contacted nor did I approve it.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Louis Tomlinson (@Louis_Tomlinson) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Louis_Tomlinson\/status\/1145753419447177218?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 1, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-4\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"56\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"2\">\n<p>The&nbsp;&#8220;Sign of the Times&#8221;&nbsp;star has yet to comment on the episode.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"photo-txt-5\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"40.086633663366\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-photo-text\" readability=\"21.509900990099\">\n<p>Recently, the actress, who plays Kat, spoke to the <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/live-feed\/euphoria-star-webcam-scene-overcoming-fat-shaming-1221805\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Hollywood Reporter<\/a><\/em>&nbsp;about the importance of that sexually explicit&nbsp;scene. At least, how important it was to her.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When I first read the script, that was the first thing that popped out to me because I can relate to that as a 22-year-old woman who lived through the One Direction age. It&#8217;s such a reality for so many people, and so many children and teens that are fans just have this escapist world.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She continued, &#8220;You completely give yourself to this persona of a person you don&#8217;t even know, or five guys, and imaging the way they interact the escaping from your own reality. It&#8217;s really interesting to me because I was definitely a part of that, where I wanted to escape my own life and focus on others because it was easier and felt more meaningful.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-6\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"58\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"6\">\n<p>Fans of the new HBO series will know this isn&#8217;t the first kind of controversy it has caused. It&#8217;s garnered a lot of attention for its uncensored depiction of teens&#8217; experiences with drugs, sex and violence. With that, it seems like there&#8217;s a lot more in store for viewers this season.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1053690\/louis-tomlinson-breaks-silence-over-sexually-explicit-harry-styles-scene-on-hbo-s-euphoria?cmpid=rss-000000-rssfeed-365-topstories&#038;utm_source=eonline&#038;utm_medium=rssfeeds&#038;utm_campaign=rss_topstories\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: E! Online<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Karwai Tang\/WireImage Louis Tomlinson is speaking out. The former One Direction member took to Twitter on Monday morning to share his thoughts on HBO&#8217;s buzzed about show, Euphoria.&nbsp;During the series&#8217; third episode, there&#8217;s a&nbsp;scene that depicted the&nbsp;27-year-old English singer and Harry Styles in a graphic light. In the episode, fan-fiction writer Kat Hernandez (played by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-music-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-09-11 01:48:12","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KIFT - The LIFT FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26356\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}