Jacob Elordi Addresses Euphoria Season 3’s Shocking Nate Twist

This article contains major spoilers for the most recent episode of Euphoria.

Euphoria actor Jacob Elordi has shared his take on how things played out in the latest episode of the hit US drama.

The Australian star has played Nate Jacobs in all three seasons of the award-winning series, with his character taking centre stage in the latest instalment in a big way.

We’re heading into serious territory now, so if you’ve not watched the episode yet, don’t say we didn’t warn you, alright?

In Monday’s episode, viewers saw Nate dying in pretty grim circumstances, first being buried alive due to his mounting debts before being stung by a rattlesnake and eventually found by his wife and ex, Cassie and Maddy, played by Sydney Sweeney and Alexa Demie.

While plenty of viewers were disturbed at watching Nate’s final scenes, Jacob himself had a very different response to finding himself “tucked in this box with dust falling on me and a snake coming down the pipe” to shoot the film’s practical effects.

“That’s a cool way to go,” he enthused in a behind-the-scenes video posted after the episode aired.

“Nate is someone who’s made so many mistakes and made so many dark choices, it’s cool to see it all come to what it’s come to.”

He continued: “I had to go into this coffin, my shoulders were touching the sides and I couldn’t move my arms. And then they would drill the lid on, and it would get dark.

“It was really nice, actually, it was quite peaceful in there.”

Creator Sam Levinson then explained that he couldn’t use a real poisonous rattlesnake in the coffin with Jacob, so a boa constrictor was used for the sequence instead.

“The snakes were rattling, which was really alarming when you’re locked in a box,” the Oscar nominee recalled. “They had a boa constrictor that they put a fake rattler on the end of [in the coffin]. And Sam was like, ‘we’re just going to drop the snake on you’.

“[The snake] was super cute. He was, like, real cuddly. He kind of just saddled up next to me, and it was nice. But he was real sleepy – sleepy snake. I had to kind of nudge him to get him to come up [to my face].”

“And that was it,” he added of his character’s fate. “It’s a bittersweet thing. This show is a massive part of not just my career, but my life. It’s been amazing and I’m so proud being a part of this.”

Jacob isn’t the only member of Euphoria’s A-list cast to be put through his paces while shooting season three, though.

Earlier this month, Zendaya opened up about shooting one memorable sequence that meant she had to spend “about three days buried up to her neck on the side of this hill”.

The Euphoria season finale – widely believed to be the last ever episode of the show – will premiere on Sky and Now in the UK on Monday 1 June.