The Euphoria cast weren’t the only ones who reunited for the new season of the hit HBO drama.
During season three, episode two, titled “America My Dream,” Zendaya shared the screen again with her former onscreen father, Kadeem Hardison. However, this time, it’s safe to say the setting was much less kid-friendly.
Zendaya and Hardison first starred together in the Disney Channel show, K.C. Undercover, which ran for three seasons from 2015 to 2018. In the series, the Emmy winner plays K.C. Cooper, a high school technology wiz and karate black-belt who discovers that both her parents are secret spies and expect her to follow in their footsteps. Hardison plays her dad, Craig Cooper.
Kadeem Hardison and Zendaya on ‘K.C. Undercover.’
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Years later, they’ve reunited but in much more mature roles. In Euphoria season three, Hardison plays Big Eddy, who helps manage operations at Alamo Brown’s (Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje) Silver Slipper strip club. His character interacts with Zendaya’s Rue at the club when she goes to work for Alamo to work off the massive debt owed to her former drug dealer, Laurie (Martha Kelly).
“Happy y’all enjoyed the reunion… always a blast to share the screen with the homie,” Hardison wrote on Instagram (below) after the new Euphoria episode premiered on Sunday. “If you’ve been watching, you already know. wearing the chestnut flip-up specs.”
Kadeem Hardison in ‘Euphoria’ season three.
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The K.C. Undercover connection wasn’t the only subtle nod that fans noticed from the latest episode. Hardison’s signature flip-up glasses, initially popularized by his memorable role as Dwayne Wayne on the 1980s/90s sitcom A Different World, also made a cameo.
As the season continues, and Zendaya’s Rue finds herself more entangled in Alamo’s dangerous empire, I’m sure fans can expect more interactions between her and Hardison’s character, and maybe another flip-up glasses cameo, too. New episodes of Euphoria air Sundays at 9 p.m. ET/ 6 p.m. PT on HBO and Max
