Euphoria fan from Copenhagen was stunned to see a stock photo of him on the show

Rolling Stone

The HBO teen series likely wasn't able to get the rights to show the album cover for INXS' 1987 alum Kick, so the show re-created it using a stock model image from iStock.com of somebody who resembles the late lead singer Michael Hutchence. That somebody is Alexander Burchardt, a 29-year-old Copenhagen web developer who shot the modeling photos more than a decade ago. “It was me. In the split second we see the album cover, I saw it and I got so confused,” Burchardt tells Rolling Stone. “You’d be surprised how easily you could recognize yourself when you least expect it. I remember that photo shoot (and) the clothes I was wearing but I was shocked. We thought it was impossible so we rewound the scene, paused again and looked, and my girlfriend was screaming.” HBO declined to comment.