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'Euphoria' star Eric Dane says that he will "ride that show until the wheels fall off"
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'Euphoria' star Eric Dane says that he will "ride that show until the wheels fall off"

Eric Dane is making his stance clear on whether he wants Euphoria to go beyond a third season, and it's good news for any fans of the HBO series, created, written, directed, and executive produced by Sam Levinson. 

"I will ride that show until the wheels fall off," the actor told Variety. "I don’t know what the fate of the show is. I do know that it takes a heroic effort to put it together. If all the elements are going to be there to keep going, I would work on it as long as they’ll have me."

As for the new season and what's to come for his character, Cal Jacobs, he shared, "I don’t know anything. I haven’t seen a script. We get pages maybe a day or two before, but it’s all kept on the D.L. I just have so much trust in Sam Levinson that I don’t really need to know what’s happening. On the day, he can just tell me what to do and where to go, and I’m good with it."

Season 3 is currently filming, but it's unclear when the show will return. Euphoria also stars Zendaya, who serves as an executive producer, Sydney Sweeney, Jacob Elordi, Hunter Schafer, Alexa Demie, Maude Apatow, Colman Domingo, Eric Dane, Martha Kelly, Chloe Cherry, Rosalía, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Toby Wallace, Marshawn Lynch, Darrell Britt-Gibson, Kadeem Hardison, Priscilla Delgado, James Landry Hébert, Anna Van Patten, and Sharon Stone.

"I was just hoping that none of them had an attitude. That’s very easy to get when your Instagram following goes from 30,000 to 30 million overnight," he commented when asked about his younger colleagues. "But I’m happy to report that everybody’s got a good head on their shoulders. They were professional, and still are. I love Jacob, I love Z. I work with Jacob a lot; we have profound conversations when we’re not shooting. He’s a smart, bright, intuitive actor. You can apply that across the board with this cast. Sam had a very specific idea of what he wanted, and he went out and got it. I’ve got a pretty good radar when it comes to people that are going to turn into absolute a-------. I just knew with [Jacob] that he was going to be a straight-shooter, level-headed. He’s maintained that."

As for how the experience has changed him as an actor, he explained, "I’ve always had a profound respect for the craft of acting, but I never considered myself an artist. I could never admit it, until I started making Euphoria. That’s when I gave myself the allowance to feel like I was an artist."

All episodes of the first two seasons are currently streaming on HBO Max.

Sophia Soto

Sophia Soto is a writer and interviewer with a passion for all things entertainment. She is a Senior Reporter at The Nerds of Color and contributes to Yardbarker, Screensphere, Den of Geek, What to Watch, Nerdtropolis, and Temple of Geek. You can see her past work on Remezcla, Young Hollywood, Looper, Paste Magazine, Primetimer, Soundsphere, and Starry Constellation Magazine

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