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- EUPHORIA: NATE’S DAD GETS A BTERSWEET ORIG STORY “I KNOW WHAT ’S LIKE TO LIVE A DOUBLE LIFE,” SAYS ERIC DANE, WHO PLAYS CAL—AND EPLY RELAT TO HIS TORTURED CHARACTER.BY YOHANA DTAJANUARY 23, 2022COURTY OF HBO. SAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVETHIS PIECE NTAS SPOILERS FOR SEASON TWO, EPISO THREE, OF EUPHORIA. CAL JABS HAS, AT LAST, GOTTEN THE ORIG-STORY TREATMENT. ON SUNDAY NIGHT’S EPISO OF EUPHORIA, FANS FALLY GOT AN EYE-OPENG REVELATN TO WHY NATE’S DAD IS THE WAY HE IS (READ: VILLAO, TORMENTED, CLOSETED), REVEALG THE BTER ROOTS OF HIS SON’S SEVERE DADDY ISSU. THE EPISO, WRTEN BY SHOW CREATOR SAM LEVSON, STARTS WH A FLASHBACK TO CAL HIGH SCHOOL. HE’S A STAR WRTLER, HAPPY AND GOOD-NATURED SPE OF HIS STRICT, OVERBEARG FATHER. HE SPENDS ALL HIS SPARE TIME WH HIS BT IEND DEREK. THEY START FALLG FOR EACH OTHER, BUT BSH THEIR FEELGS ASI, STEAD MAKG A GRAND SHOW OF GETTG GIRLIENDS AND HOOKG UP WH THEM—SOMETIM THE SAME ROOM, STEALG GLANC AT EACH OTHER. ON GRADUATN NIGHT, DEREK TAK CAL OUT SO THEY N CELEBRATE ALONE. (THE FUTURE IS G FOR THEM: CAL’S OFF TO DE, WHILE DEREK’S HEADG TO A STATE SCHOOL OUT WT.) DEREK’S SPOT TURNS OUT TO BE A GAY BAR, AND CAL ROLLS WH . THEY HEAD TO THE DANCE FLOOR, SPNG AROUND TO INXS’S “NEVER TEAR US APART.” IT’S KD OF A SUBURBAN Y TU MAMá TAMBIEN MOMENT, TWO BOYS AND A JEBOX A SPARSE BAR. THEY EVENTUALLY START KISSG, SHGGG OFF THEIR HETERO FA. BUT THE FANTASY IS DISPTED THE NEXT MORNG, WHEN CAL’S GIRLIEND MARSHA TELLS HIM SHE’S PREGNANT. AND, AS WE KNOW OM THE SHOW, SHE CIS TO KEEP THE CHILD. THE TWO GET MARRIED AND HAVE ANOTHER KID, NATE (JAB ELORDI), WHILE CAL STAYS THE CLOSET, HAVG NUMERO AFFAIRS AND SECRETLY FILMG HIS SEXUAL ENUNTERS. HIS BIFURTED LIFTYLE—UPSTANDG PILLAR OF THE MUNY BY DAY, CLOSETED CHEATER BY NIGHT—EVENTUALLY IMPRTS ON NATE, MOLDG HIS SON TO A VLENT MI-ME. ACTOR ERIC DANE, WHO PLAYS CAL, FOUND THE FLASHBACK “HEARTBREAKG,” EPENG HIS UNRSTANDG OF HIS BROKEN CHARACTER. “I DON’T KNOW WHAT ’S LIKE TO BE CAL, BUT I KNOW WHAT ’S LIKE TO LIVE A DOUBLE LIFE,” THE ACTOR SAID, LLG OM HIS HOME LOS ANGEL. “I’VE HAD MY OWN EXPERIENCE WH DG AND ALHOL ABE. THAT’S A DOUBLE LIFE.”THE ACTOR, WHO SHOT TO FAME AS DR. MARK SLOAN (AKA MCSTEAMY) GREY’S ANATOMY, HAS BEEN NDID ABOUT HIS BATTLE WH DGS, VOLUNTARILY ENTERG REHAB 2011 FOR AN ADDICTN TO PAKILLERS FOLLOWG A SPORTS JURY. “TRYG TO KEEP THAT SECRET IS TOUGH,” HE NTUED. “EVENTUALLY EVERYTHG ALWAYS TCH UP WH YOU.”DANE HAD NO IA ABOUT CAL’S HIGH SCHOOL BACKSTORY GOG TO SEASON TWO. “I TST SAM SO MUCH,” HE SAID. “I’VE NEVER BEEN ONE TO PICK THE WRER’S BRA ABOUT WHAT’S G UP THE FUTURE.… I KNOW ’S GOOD HANDS.”DANE FIRST READ THE SCRIPT AT THE ST’S FIRST TABLE READ, WHICH TOOK PLACE MARCH 2020. BUT LIKE VIRTUALLY EVERYTHG ELSE PRODUCTN AT THE TIME, SEASON TWO OF EUPHORIA WAS QUICKLY SHUT DOWN DUE TO THE PANMIC, NOT PICKG UP AGA UNTIL 2021. (IN THE TERIM, LEVSON SHOT THE FEATURE MALLM & MARIE, PL TWO SPECIAL EPISOS OF EUPHORIA CENTERED ON RUE AND JUL, RPECTIVELY.) IN THE FLASHBACK, CAL IS PLAYED BY A WNG ELIAS KAVAS. THOUGH DANE DON’T APPEAR THOSE SCEN, HE SPENT SOME TIME ON SET WHEN THEY WERE BEG SHOT, GETTG TO KNOW THE YOUNG ACTOR—WHO WILL NEXT BE SEEN A TEEN SHOW OF A DIFFERENT STRIPE, PRETTY LTLE LIARS: ORIGAL S. “HE WAS TERRIFIC,” DANE SAID, THOUGH HE ADMS HE DIDN’T UNRSTAND THE STG CHOICE AT FIRST. “AT FIRST GLANCE, I WAS LIKE, THAT’S YOUNG CAL? AND THEN I STARTED TALKG TO THE GUY AND I WATCHED SOME OF HIS STUFF AND I WAS LIKE, YEAH. THAT’S YOUNG CAL.”MOST POPULARVANY FAIR’S “IT’S RAG TEENS” COVER AT 20: WHERE ARE THEY NOW?BY SAVANNAH WALSHTHE CAST OF OPPENHEIMER AND THE REAL PEOPLE THEY PLAYBY HILLARY BISRED, WHE & ROYAL BLUE MAY BE “THE MOST EXPENSIVE B OF FAN FICTN EVER”BY SAVANNAH WALSHAFTER THE FLASHBACK, THE EPISO TCH UP TO MORN-DAY CAL, WHO’S STALKG FEZ’S HOE AFTER NATE TELLS HIM THE DG ALER OBTAED THE SEX TAPE CAL SECRETLY MA WHEN HE MTED STATUTORY RAPE WH JUL. ASHTRAY (JAVON “WANNA” WALTON) BRGS CAL TO THE HOE AT GUNPOT, QUTNG HIM AND BEATG HIM OVER THE HEAD WH THE END OF THE SHOTGUN. “THAT SCENE WAS A LTLE TOUGH BEE I DID TAKE MULTIPLE SHOTS TO THE HEAD,” DANE NOT. “IT WAS A PROP GUN, BUT AFTER 50-SOMETHG SHOTS, FEELS LIKE A SHOTGUN.” HE’S GRATEFUL TO THE 15-YEAR-OLD WALTON, WHO REAL LIFE IS A HIGHLY TRAED BOXER CURRENTLY WORKG TOWARD THE 2024 OLYMPICS: “HE WAS REALLY GOOD AT WORKG THAT SHOTGUN SO I DIDN’T END UP WH A NCSN AT THE END OF THE DAY.”IN THE SCENE, DON’T TAKE LONG FOR CAL TO REALIZE THAT FEZ, WHO IS UTTERLY NFED BY THE WHOLE SUATN, DON’T HAVE THE TAPE. SLOWLY, THE SCENE TILTS AWAY OM DRAMA AND UP TOWARD EDY, WH DANE LIKENG TO A BIZARRO EPISO OF THREE’S COMPANY. IT WAS A RARE TREAT FOR HIM TO ACT ALONGSI OTHER ST MEMBERS OF THE SHOW, AS MOST OF HIS SCEN ARE UALLY WH ELORDI. HE’S NOT PLAG, THOUGH: “I LOVE HIM LIKE A LTLE BROTHER,” HE SAID OF THE YOUNG ATRALIAN ACTOR, WHO OCSNALLY ASKS DANE FOR ADVICE AND GEEKS OUT ABOUT THE CRAFT OF ACTG. “Z IS THAT WAY [TOO],” DANE ADDS—REFERRG, OF URSE, TO ZENDAYA, THE SHOW’S LEAD. “EVERYBODY’S SO TALENTED ON THE SHOW, THAT AT TIM I FEEL LIKE I’M PUNCHG ABOVE MY WEIGHT,” DANE SAYS. “THE KIDS ARE SO PREC, YOU KNOW? THEY’RE 20-SOMETHGS. IT’S UNBELIEVABLE.”MORE GREAT STORI FROM VANY FAIR— TV STAR SARAH WYNTER’S BATTLE WH POSTPARTUM PSYCHOSIS— CARíONA BALFE’S CELTIC CONQUT, FROM OUTLANR TO BELFAST— THE BT MOVI AND SHOWS STREAMG ON NETFLIX THIS MONTH— 21 WARDROBE WNERS INSPIRED BY AND JT LIKE THAT…— WHAT VIVIAN VANCE DIDN’T LOVE ABOUT I LOVE LUCY— THE LIFE AND DEATH OF ROSANNE BOYLAND, A CAPOL RTER— INSECURE’S NATASHA ROTHWELL CAN DO IT ALL— FROM THE ARCHIVE: JOAN DIDN, OUR LADY OF L.A.— SIGN UP FOR THE “HWD DAILY” NEWSLETTER FOR MT-READ DTRY AND AWARDS VERAGE—PL A SPECIAL WEEKLY EDN OF “AWARDS INSIR.”YOHANA DTA
- 21 "EUPHORIA" MOMENTS THAT THE GAYS ARE STILL THKG ABOUT
- IS JAB ELORDI’S NATE JABS GAY EUPHORIA?
EUPHORIA: NATE’S DAD GETS A BTERSWEET ORIG STORY “I KNOW WHAT ’S LIKE TO LIVE A DOUBLE LIFE,” SAYS ERIC DANE, WHO PLAYS CAL—AND EPLY RELAT TO HIS TORTURED CHARACTER.BY YOHANA DTAJANUARY 23, 2022COURTY OF HBO. SAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVETHIS PIECE NTAS SPOILERS FOR SEASON TWO, EPISO THREE, OF EUPHORIA. CAL JABS HAS, AT LAST, GOTTEN THE ORIG-STORY TREATMENT. ON SUNDAY NIGHT’S EPISO OF EUPHORIA, FANS FALLY GOT AN EYE-OPENG REVELATN TO WHY NATE’S DAD IS THE WAY HE IS (READ: VILLAO, TORMENTED, CLOSETED), REVEALG THE BTER ROOTS OF HIS SON’S SEVERE DADDY ISSU. THE EPISO, WRTEN BY SHOW CREATOR SAM LEVSON, STARTS WH A FLASHBACK TO CAL HIGH SCHOOL. HE’S A STAR WRTLER, HAPPY AND GOOD-NATURED SPE OF HIS STRICT, OVERBEARG FATHER. HE SPENDS ALL HIS SPARE TIME WH HIS BT IEND DEREK. THEY START FALLG FOR EACH OTHER, BUT BSH THEIR FEELGS ASI, STEAD MAKG A GRAND SHOW OF GETTG GIRLIENDS AND HOOKG UP WH THEM—SOMETIM THE SAME ROOM, STEALG GLANC AT EACH OTHER. ON GRADUATN NIGHT, DEREK TAK CAL OUT SO THEY N CELEBRATE ALONE. (THE FUTURE IS G FOR THEM: CAL’S OFF TO DE, WHILE DEREK’S HEADG TO A STATE SCHOOL OUT WT.) DEREK’S SPOT TURNS OUT TO BE A GAY BAR, AND CAL ROLLS WH . THEY HEAD TO THE DANCE FLOOR, SPNG AROUND TO INXS’S “NEVER TEAR US APART.” IT’S KD OF A SUBURBAN Y TU MAMá TAMBIEN MOMENT, TWO BOYS AND A JEBOX A SPARSE BAR. THEY EVENTUALLY START KISSG, SHGGG OFF THEIR HETERO FA. BUT THE FANTASY IS DISPTED THE NEXT MORNG, WHEN CAL’S GIRLIEND MARSHA TELLS HIM SHE’S PREGNANT. AND, AS WE KNOW OM THE SHOW, SHE CIS TO KEEP THE CHILD. THE TWO GET MARRIED AND HAVE ANOTHER KID, NATE (JAB ELORDI), WHILE CAL STAYS THE CLOSET, HAVG NUMERO AFFAIRS AND SECRETLY FILMG HIS SEXUAL ENUNTERS. HIS BIFURTED LIFTYLE—UPSTANDG PILLAR OF THE MUNY BY DAY, CLOSETED CHEATER BY NIGHT—EVENTUALLY IMPRTS ON NATE, MOLDG HIS SON TO A VLENT MI-ME. ACTOR ERIC DANE, WHO PLAYS CAL, FOUND THE FLASHBACK “HEARTBREAKG,” EPENG HIS UNRSTANDG OF HIS BROKEN CHARACTER. “I DON’T KNOW WHAT ’S LIKE TO BE CAL, BUT I KNOW WHAT ’S LIKE TO LIVE A DOUBLE LIFE,” THE ACTOR SAID, LLG OM HIS HOME LOS ANGEL. “I’VE HAD MY OWN EXPERIENCE WH DG AND ALHOL ABE. THAT’S A DOUBLE LIFE.”THE ACTOR, WHO SHOT TO FAME AS DR. MARK SLOAN (AKA MCSTEAMY) GREY’S ANATOMY, HAS BEEN NDID ABOUT HIS BATTLE WH DGS, VOLUNTARILY ENTERG REHAB 2011 FOR AN ADDICTN TO PAKILLERS FOLLOWG A SPORTS JURY. “TRYG TO KEEP THAT SECRET IS TOUGH,” HE NTUED. “EVENTUALLY EVERYTHG ALWAYS TCH UP WH YOU.”DANE HAD NO IA ABOUT CAL’S HIGH SCHOOL BACKSTORY GOG TO SEASON TWO. “I TST SAM SO MUCH,” HE SAID. “I’VE NEVER BEEN ONE TO PICK THE WRER’S BRA ABOUT WHAT’S G UP THE FUTURE.… I KNOW ’S GOOD HANDS.”DANE FIRST READ THE SCRIPT AT THE ST’S FIRST TABLE READ, WHICH TOOK PLACE MARCH 2020. BUT LIKE VIRTUALLY EVERYTHG ELSE PRODUCTN AT THE TIME, SEASON TWO OF EUPHORIA WAS QUICKLY SHUT DOWN DUE TO THE PANMIC, NOT PICKG UP AGA UNTIL 2021. (IN THE TERIM, LEVSON SHOT THE FEATURE MALLM & MARIE, PL TWO SPECIAL EPISOS OF EUPHORIA CENTERED ON RUE AND JUL, RPECTIVELY.) IN THE FLASHBACK, CAL IS PLAYED BY A WNG ELIAS KAVAS. THOUGH DANE DON’T APPEAR THOSE SCEN, HE SPENT SOME TIME ON SET WHEN THEY WERE BEG SHOT, GETTG TO KNOW THE YOUNG ACTOR—WHO WILL NEXT BE SEEN A TEEN SHOW OF A DIFFERENT STRIPE, PRETTY LTLE LIARS: ORIGAL S. “HE WAS TERRIFIC,” DANE SAID, THOUGH HE ADMS HE DIDN’T UNRSTAND THE STG CHOICE AT FIRST. “AT FIRST GLANCE, I WAS LIKE, THAT’S YOUNG CAL? AND THEN I STARTED TALKG TO THE GUY AND I WATCHED SOME OF HIS STUFF AND I WAS LIKE, YEAH. THAT’S YOUNG CAL.”MOST POPULARVANY FAIR’S “IT’S RAG TEENS” COVER AT 20: WHERE ARE THEY NOW?BY SAVANNAH WALSHTHE CAST OF OPPENHEIMER AND THE REAL PEOPLE THEY PLAYBY HILLARY BISRED, WHE & ROYAL BLUE MAY BE “THE MOST EXPENSIVE B OF FAN FICTN EVER”BY SAVANNAH WALSHAFTER THE FLASHBACK, THE EPISO TCH UP TO MORN-DAY CAL, WHO’S STALKG FEZ’S HOE AFTER NATE TELLS HIM THE DG ALER OBTAED THE SEX TAPE CAL SECRETLY MA WHEN HE MTED STATUTORY RAPE WH JUL. ASHTRAY (JAVON “WANNA” WALTON) BRGS CAL TO THE HOE AT GUNPOT, QUTNG HIM AND BEATG HIM OVER THE HEAD WH THE END OF THE SHOTGUN. “THAT SCENE WAS A LTLE TOUGH BEE I DID TAKE MULTIPLE SHOTS TO THE HEAD,” DANE NOT. “IT WAS A PROP GUN, BUT AFTER 50-SOMETHG SHOTS, FEELS LIKE A SHOTGUN.” HE’S GRATEFUL TO THE 15-YEAR-OLD WALTON, WHO REAL LIFE IS A HIGHLY TRAED BOXER CURRENTLY WORKG TOWARD THE 2024 OLYMPICS: “HE WAS REALLY GOOD AT WORKG THAT SHOTGUN SO I DIDN’T END UP WH A NCSN AT THE END OF THE DAY.”IN THE SCENE, DON’T TAKE LONG FOR CAL TO REALIZE THAT FEZ, WHO IS UTTERLY NFED BY THE WHOLE SUATN, DON’T HAVE THE TAPE. SLOWLY, THE SCENE TILTS AWAY OM DRAMA AND UP TOWARD EDY, WH DANE LIKENG TO A BIZARRO EPISO OF THREE’S COMPANY. IT WAS A RARE TREAT FOR HIM TO ACT ALONGSI OTHER ST MEMBERS OF THE SHOW, AS MOST OF HIS SCEN ARE UALLY WH ELORDI. HE’S NOT PLAG, THOUGH: “I LOVE HIM LIKE A LTLE BROTHER,” HE SAID OF THE YOUNG ATRALIAN ACTOR, WHO OCSNALLY ASKS DANE FOR ADVICE AND GEEKS OUT ABOUT THE CRAFT OF ACTG. “Z IS THAT WAY [TOO],” DANE ADDS—REFERRG, OF URSE, TO ZENDAYA, THE SHOW’S LEAD. “EVERYBODY’S SO TALENTED ON THE SHOW, THAT AT TIM I FEEL LIKE I’M PUNCHG ABOVE MY WEIGHT,” DANE SAYS. “THE KIDS ARE SO PREC, YOU KNOW? THEY’RE 20-SOMETHGS. IT’S UNBELIEVABLE.”MORE GREAT STORI FROM VANY FAIR— TV STAR SARAH WYNTER’S BATTLE WH POSTPARTUM PSYCHOSIS— CARíONA BALFE’S CELTIC CONQUT, FROM OUTLANR TO BELFAST— THE BT MOVI AND SHOWS STREAMG ON NETFLIX THIS MONTH— 21 WARDROBE WNERS INSPIRED BY AND JT LIKE THAT…— WHAT VIVIAN VANCE DIDN’T LOVE ABOUT I LOVE LUCY— THE LIFE AND DEATH OF ROSANNE BOYLAND, A CAPOL RTER— INSECURE’S NATASHA ROTHWELL CAN DO IT ALL— FROM THE ARCHIVE: JOAN DIDN, OUR LADY OF L.A.— SIGN UP FOR THE “HWD DAILY” NEWSLETTER FOR MT-READ DTRY AND AWARDS VERAGE—PL A SPECIAL WEEKLY EDN OF “AWARDS INSIR.”YOHANA DTA
) Derek’s spot turns out to be a gay bar, and Cal rolls wh . On graduatn night, Cal and Derek celebrate at a gay bar outsi of town, where they share a dance and their first kiss.
If Marsha hadn’t lled that morng wh the news that she was pregnant, Dane believ he and Derek would have been together, and Cal uld have been a happy gay man, fortable his own sk and not livg a lie. I don’t know if Derek was as gay as Cal was. "I thk ’s ls about this kd of poppy social thg where everyone wants to be like, 'Is Nate gay?
21 "EUPHORIA" MOMENTS THAT THE GAYS ARE STILL THKG ABOUT
Over the past two seasons of Euphoria, there's been a lot of speculatn amongst viewers and -show characters alike about Nate Jabs' has maly had (very toxic) relatnships wh women – he's dated both Maddy and Cassie, and has pursued Jul through a fake inty on a datg app – but there's been a few stanc where appears as though he's reprsg his big turng pot for Nate season 2 appeared to e durg Lexi's play when Ethan's homoerotic dance number, clearly based on Nate and the hypermascule jocks, ed him to storm out of the dorium.
He also labelled the scene "homophobic" rant to Cassie. So I thk ’s ls about this kd of poppy social thg where everyone wants to be like, 'Is Nate gay?
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.
IS JAB ELORDI’S NATE JABS GAY EUPHORIA?
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 one of the show’s most tenr scen to date, Cal and Derek celebrate their recent graduatn at a gay bar and head to the dance floor, before fally sharg a kiss to the beat of INXS’s Never Tear Us Apart.