Why did Jacob Elordi leave Euphoria, role of Nate Jacobs?

In a way, we should have known that Euphoria season 3 would lose a major cast member — but why was it Jacob Elordi?

For most of the season, you could really argue that the actor’s presence was largely defined by Nate owing dangerous people money and being frequently brutalized as a result. We saw him maimed, beaten, and ultimate lose various extremities. Yet, in the end his undoing was a snake, who climbed into his casket while he was buried underground as a part of a 72-hour plan. Cassie confirmed his death and with that, Nate is gone — and so is the HBO show’s most-prominent male actor. While Elordi was hardly a household name back in season 1, he has certainly become that over the past several months.

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So getting into why this move happened, the easy assumption to make is just that it was a creative one — Nate got himself in so much trouble that it was hard for him to ever survive it. This is something that creator Sam Levinson alludes to in Esquire:

“It was what was exciting about the characters being out of high school … They’re in the real world and the consequences are real. There’s no safety net. I like this Wild West, frontier aspect to it where you can make something of yourself, but you’re going to have to live with the consequences.”

There is no information suggesting that Elordi asked to be written out of the show. The real truth may just be as simple as someone needed to die in order for Levinson’s point about consequences to hit home. You cannot kill off Rue, and several other characters are connected to multiple other storylines. Nate is also a character who has done so many bad things, it is easy to assume that a dark fate was coming.

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This article was written by Jessica BunBun.