Fans are getting closer to the long-anticipated third season of Euphoria and Jacob Elordi say it will be worth the wait. Speaking to Variety at the Academy Museum Gala over the weekend, the actor praised his experience shooting the new episodes.
“It was incredible, man,” Elordi said. “It was incredibly liberating. I got to play something so sort of far out from what I’ve done before.” He added that series creator Sam Levinson “constructed something that’s incredibly clever and cinematic.” “I think people are really going to like it,” Elordi noted.
Despite the excitement, the actor explained he doesn’t actually know all of the plot lines for the forthcoming third season. “Everybody shoots at different storylines,” Elordi said. “I don’t know what anyone else is doing. I had a really singular storyline. You don’t know what the other story lines are. It’s like FBI files. So it’s great because I’ll get to consume the show the same way that everybody else does as a fan, which I haven’t been able to do before. I’m really excited.”
Elordi plays high school football star Nate Jacobs on Euphoria. The show also stars Zendaya, Sydney Sweeney, Maude Apatow, Eric Dane, and Dominic Fike. Season 3 will feature several new cast members, including Sam Trammell, Trisha Paytas, Natasha Lyonne, Danielle Deadwyler, and Eli Roth. In November, Storm Reid revealed she would not be returning for a third season, but expressed gratitude for becoming a part of the “cultural phenomenon.”
The second season of the teen drama aired in 2022. Fans have been waiting ever since to see how several storylines conclude. Earlier this year, HBO finally confirmed that the show would be back on the network in 2026. After Season 2 debuted, Zendaya speculated about what the follow-up might entail.
“I want to see what Rue looks like in her sobriety journey, how chaotic that might look,” she said. “But also with all the characters, in the sense where they’re trying to figure out what to do with their lives when high school is over and what kind of people they want to be. What was special about this season was that we got to dive into [the other characters] in a much deeper sense. I think we can do that again with the third season.”
Earlier this year, Sweeney promised that Season 3 would be “unhinged.” In an interview with Empire magazine, the actress gave a light tease of the show’s return while discussing her deep attachment to her character, Cassie. She praised Levinson’s openness to pushing things as far as possible, calling him “a brilliant filmmaker to work with, because I’ll read something, then I’ll call him, and I’m like, ‘Let’s go crazier,’” Sweeney said. “And he’s like, ‘I’m all in.’”
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Elordi is currently starring in Guillermo del Toro’s adaptation of Frankenstein. The film hit select theatres on Oct. 17 and will stream on Netflix on Nov. 7.
From Rolling Stone US
