Contents:
- ERIC DANE ON ‘EUPHORIA’ CHARACTER’S DOUBLE LIFE: “I’M ACUTELY AWARE THAT I’M A STRAIGHT ACTOR PLAYG A GAY CHARACTER”
- EUPHORIA EXPLOR CAL JABS’ SEXUALY WH TRAGIC GAY ROMANTIC BACKSTORY
- MD THE MEDIA: EUPHORIA'S DEPICTN OF A HIDN GAY INTY, AND S CONSEQUENC
ERIC DANE ON ‘EUPHORIA’ CHARACTER’S DOUBLE LIFE: “I’M ACUTELY AWARE THAT I’M A STRAIGHT ACTOR PLAYG A GAY CHARACTER”
He’s no longer accepted by the straight muny and not accepted by the gay muny. “I’m acutely aware that I’m a straight actor playg a gay character, ” Dane reflects. “The gay muny has been super supportive.
EUPHORIA EXPLOR CAL JABS’ SEXUALY WH TRAGIC GAY ROMANTIC BACKSTORY
However, tertgly the scen of heteronormative high school romance are terspersed wh shots of the boys wrtlg sglets that have a distctly homoerotic tone, as well as a shot of Cal starg at Derek adjtg himself the r, makg clear that there’s fe potential for the boys’ relatnship to move beyond the platonic.
Thgs culmate on the night of their high school graduatn when Derek suggts they take a trip to the lol gay bar bee he knew they’d get served there whout an ID. In season two episo three ‘Rumatns: Big and Ltle Bullys‘, which dropped on NOWTV the UK this week, the show’s rint villa Cal (Eric Dane) was given a gay orig story worthy of s own movie. Gay.
MD THE MEDIA: EUPHORIA'S DEPICTN OF A HIDN GAY INTY, AND S CONSEQUENC
Dpe this, Cal was actually secretly bisexual, and had feelgs for Derek but never acted on them, most likely due to his homophobic father. Cal Jabs is a plex man who's lived his entire life as a lie, pretendg to be someone he's not due to his upbrgg wh an homophobic father.
In a stirrg sequence set at a gay bar jt outsi their hometown, the two boys celebrate their recent graduatn and mourn their rapidly approachg separatn for llege wh an INXS-soundtracked slow dance, eventually givg way to a passnate kiss.