After a major character was killed off in Euphoria on May 24, the actor revealed what the final scene, which features a coffin and a snake, will be about.
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Jacob Elordi stepped out in dramatic fashion on the penultimate episode of ‘Euphoria’ Season 3.
The actor, who has played Nate Jacobs on the HBO series since season 1, was killed off on the May 24 episode in one of the most gruesome deaths in television history to date.
In fact, financial hardship finally caught up with Nate, who had been dodging Naz’s (Jack Topalian) promise of money all season. In the end, Naz and his partner Artur (Matthew Willig) bury Nate alive in a coffin. Nate’s only hope was a small hole in the ground for air. Despite his cries for help, the hole ended up killing him as a rattlesnake slipped into the coffin, mortally wounding him.
It was a scene that seemed to make the viewers’ skin tingle. But Elordi, 28, said she found filming quite enjoyable.
“I had to go into this coffin, and my shoulder touched my side and I couldn’t move my arm, and then they drilled the lid open and it went dark,” he said in a feature segment that aired on HBO after the episode. “It was actually really nice. It was very peaceful up there.”
Elordi was unfazed by the involvement of real snakes. (Creator Sam Levinson and his production team ultimately used a boa constrictor instead of a rattlesnake for safety reasons.)
“They had put a fake rattle on the end of a boa constrictor, and Sam was like, ‘Just drop the snake,'” Elordi recalled. “The snake was rattling around, so being stuck in a box makes me really nervous.”
Elordi called the snake “super cute,” adding: “He was really cuddly, so he just climbed next to me, which was nice. But he was really sleepy. I had to nudge him a little bit to get him to come on top of me.”
In the end, Elordi found the nightmarish scenes to be “bittersweet” and a “cool way to do it.”
“Nate is a person who has made so many mistakes and has made so many dark choices,” he said. “It’s great to see it all come together.”
As for Levinson, he told Esquire that he hopes Nate’s death sparks more discussion about “justice or karma” and whether his character, who was often abusive and controlling of his wife, Cassie (Sidney Sweeney), got what he deserved.
“How do you give[the fans]what they want, but make it so scary and anxiety-inducing that by the time it happens, the audience isn’t sure if they wanted it?” he said. “‘Oh, you wanted him to have a comeback, didn’t you…? OK. That sense of collusion with the audience is always an interesting note to play in these kinds of large structures.’
“Eventually you’ll say, ‘Oh, God, I don’t know. Should he have done better?’ did does he deserve it? ” Levinson added, “These kinds of questions are always exciting to ask the audience.”
Now, as this will be the last time viewers will see Nate on screen, Elordi had nothing but good things to say about his character and the show he’s been on since 2019.
“This show has been a huge part of not only my career, but my life,” he said in a post-show feature. “It was amazing. I’m so proud to be a part of this.” The season 3 finale of ‘Euphoria’ will air on Sunday, May 31st at 9pm ET on HBO.
