'I love to shock people': Barbie Ferreira on being a Tumblr goth at heart | Dazed

We catch up with the Euphoria star on stanning Charli XCX, her favourite up-and-coming designers, and finding a style icon in Zendaya With a singsong hello and a throaty laugh, Barbie Ferreira bundles onto the screen, illuminating Zoom’s drab grid as if it were a peppy quiz show or a 90s family sitcom. By her own admission, the actor’s feeling a little more excitable than usual, it’s just she can’t quite work out why. “I’m usually a pretty upbeat person,” she notes, “even if I am spiralling out of control.” While that could be the charisma talking, perhaps Ferreira is finally feeling her star whirl into ascent, having just made her first Met Gala appearance, and feature film, Unpregnant, while filming season two of Euphoria. It’s more likely, however, that today’s jittery mood is simply a case of the butterflies, given that she’s off to see Charli XCX peform in a few hours. “Ugh, I’m so, so obsessed! I’m just gonna fan girl all over her,” she laughs.  In 2016, Time named Ferreira as one of its 30 most influential teens, a self-professed theatre gay who bloomed into an American Apparel model and body positive spokesperson when an unretouched lingerie…
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