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    Jacob Elordi enjoyed a "liberating" experience making the third season of Euphoria

    The 28-year-old actor will reprise his role as Nate Jacobs when the acclaimed HBO teen drama returns in 2026 and suggested that the new season was "far out" from the acting work he has done previously


    Speaking to Variety at the Academy Museum Gala on Saturday (18.10.25), Jacob said: "It was incredible, man.

    "It was incredibly liberating. I got to play something so sort of far out from what I've done before."

    Elordi added that series creator Sam Levinson "constructed something that's incredibly clever and cinematic. I think people are really going to like it."

    However, the Saltburn star isn't actually sure about what happens in the third season.

    Jacob said: "Everybody shoots at different storylines. I don't know what anyone else is doing. I had a really singular storyline. You don't know what the other story lines are.

    "It's like FBI files. So it's great because I'll get to consume the show the same way that everybody else does as a fan, which I haven't been able to do before. I'm really excited."

    Meanwhile, Jacob plays the monster in Guillermo del Toro's new take on Frankenstein and hailed the filmmaker as a "kind genius".

    He said: "(Netflix CEO) Ted Sarandos said to me before I started the film, 'You're so lucky you're going to get to work with a kind genius and that's a rare thing.'

    "A kind genius is a rare thing. He is the kindest of geniuses."

    Jacob had to lose a considerable amount of weight to star in Frankenstein and admits that his efforts to shed the pounds took a real toll.

    He told the Los Angeles Times newspaper: "My brain was kind of all over the place.

    "I had these moments of great anguish at around 3 a.m. in the morning. I'd wake and my body was in such pain. And I just realised that it was a blessing with Frankenstein coming up, because I could articulate these feelings, this suffering."

    Elordi was a late addition to the cast but felt that he was destined to play the role of Frankenstein.

    He explained: "It came from some other place.

    "It felt like a growth, like a cancer in my stomach that told me that I had to play this thing. I've heard stories about this from actors, and when you hear them, you kind of go, 'Sure, you were meant to play this thing.' But I really feel like I was."

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