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Euphoria changed Jacob Elordi’s life. But until last night’s appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live!, the 29-year-old hadn’t dished much on the impact it’s had since he became an Oscar-nominated movie star or how he felt about his character Nate’s brutal death.
“I don’t know if I’ll ever fathom the sort of size of the show and what it did for me,” Elordi told guest host and fellow Euphoria cast member Colman Domingo (fresh from starring in Steven Spielberg’s Disclosure Day). “I mean, we’re in movies now. Like, you’re leading Spielberg movies and I’m working with Ridley Scott. It’s crazy.”
Scott’s latest, The Dog Stars, is what led Elordi to the couch last night with much to discuss. Elordi, coming off a big year that saw him land an Oscar nod for Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein followed by a starring role opposite Margot Robbie in Emerald Fennell’s Wuthering Heights, returned to Euphoria only to see Nate get brutalized time and again by a loan shark and his henchmen due to a failed real estate venture.
“I think Sam brought me back to torture me,” Elordi quipped of creator Sam Levinson. “It was like six weeks of me just getting beat by a seven-foot guy. I was just running the whole time.” The first time viewers saw Nate suffer came on the night of his wedding to Cassie, played by Sydney Sweeney, when he gets pummeled and has his toe cut off.
