Jacob Elordi says that filming the third and—likely final—season of Euphoria offered a unique sort of freedom.
The 28-year-old actor was a guest on Entertainment Weekly‘s Awardist podcast this week and shared why making the HBO series is much different from his other projects.
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“Usually, I would like to obsess over what I was doing and understand what was happening, and have the time to go through every element and construct it and put it together,” the Frankenstein star explained.
“And I had no time to get ready for it. And I didn’t have scripts in any kind of full sense. I sort of just had creative conversations with Sam [Levinson], so I had no choice,” he said.
Jacob credits the time jump for season 3—aging up the characters so they’re no longer in high school—as something that made things easier.
“I was coming off of a plane somewhere, and later I had a small amount of time … to fit in a lot of work,” he recounted. “And so I banger a point where I could only go day by day. I could only do what was handed to me that day, and then try to invent something based on what I know of the character, based on what I see on the set live in front of me.”
“Because I had no choice, I got to be free in the acting process, ’cause it was kind of just throwing s— at the wall and seeing what would stick,” he revealed. “Less thinking about what feels real and more about, ‘How does this work in the frame?’ Or ‘Is this funny or not funny?’ I had a more relaxed way of approaching playing a character, you know?”
However, he also admitted that the sort of freedom Sam gave could be “nerve-wracking” at times.
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