The long-awaited third season of Sam Levinson‘s Euphoria opened on a solemn note as an in memoriam card flashed on screen dedicated to late star Eric Dane. The remembrance, which featured the Grey’s Anatomy alum’s image and his delivery dates, is much like the one HBO Max previously posted for late actor Angus Cloud.
At the top of the premiere episode, simply after the credit, had been devoted tributes to Dane, Cloud and producer Kevin Turen. (See pictures under.)
In presenting the primary episode of the season on the TCL Chinese Theatre final week, the creator commemorated “those who we lost.”
“Some people ask why it took so long between seasons two and three,” he mentioned. “There were obvious factors — the strikes, trying to make a schedule work with our very in-demand cast, but the real time was in trying to figure out how to find a way to pay respect to those who we lost.”
Cloud, who portrayed Fezco within the first two seasons of Euphoria, died in 2023 from “acute intoxication” on the age of 25 in Oakland, Calif. Turen unexpectedly died a month afterward, on the age of 44. Dane was in a position to reprise his function within the third season of the HBO drama earlier than his loss of life in February; the actor died of of respiratory failure with ALS as a contributing trigger.
While Cal (Dane), Nate’s (Jacob Elordi) father, doesn’t seem within the season premiere, he can be featured afterward. Though it’s unclear how the present will tackle the character’s departure, Levinson told Extra that he adjusted his writing in actual time to consider Dane’s well being. “He showed up and I could tell he had a slight slur in his voice and he told me that. I said, ‘Don’t worry. We’ll just put, like, five beer bottles in front of you and you’ve been drinking all night.’ He was like, ‘Perfect, perfect.’ And his character, it was such a gift.”
Contrastingly, Season 3 features a scene through which Rue (Zendaya) visits her erstwhile highschool good friend Lexi (Maude Apatow) in Los Angeles, the place she now works as an assistant to a famed TV government (Sharon Stone); whereas there, she urges Lexi to name Fez, with whom it appeared she would embark on a romance final season. In the present’s canon, Fez is serving 30 years in jail however nonetheless misses Lexi, regardless of not having been in touch for years.
Of the choice to conclude Fez’s journey that means, Levinson told Entertainment Weekly: “I fought very hard to keep him clean when he was alive, and losing him was really tough,” including, “I felt like if I couldn’t keep him alive in life, then, I could in the show.”
