{"id":374227,"date":"2026-03-31T06:17:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T06:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/374227\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T06:17:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T06:17:10","slug":"euphoria-season-3-trailer-includes-eric-danes-final-appearance-jacob-elordi-and-sydney-sweeney-at-the-altar-and-zendayas-breaking-bad-era","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/374227\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Euphoria’ Season 3 trailer includes Eric Dane’s final appearance, Jacob Elordi and Sydney Sweeney at the altar and Zendaya’s ‘Breaking Bad’ era"},"content":{"rendered":"

After a four-year wait, the third season of Euphoria is less than two weeks away. A brand-new trailer<\/a> for the HBO drama, which dropped on Monday, proves just how much things have changed for Zendaya\u2019s Rue and her former high school peers.<\/p>\n

Euphoria was HBO\u2019s very first YA drama: a scandalous blend of drugs, sex and one very meta theater production<\/a>. Now, the Euphoria cast is out of high school and thrust into the real world \u2014\u00a0one that includes OnlyFans, marital woes and drug muling.<\/p>\n

The more mature material makes sense for the show\u2019s cast, some of whom used the show as a career launchpad: Emmy-winner Zendaya<\/a> is churning out blockbusters on the regular, Jacob Elordi was just nominated for an Academy Award<\/a> and (often controversial<\/a>) two-time Emmy nominee Sydney Sweeney has broken box office records<\/a> as an actress and producer.<\/p>\n

In the years between seasons, Euphoria also saw loss: Angus Cloud, who played Fez, died of a drug overdose<\/a> in 2023. And Eric Dane died in February<\/a>, less than a year after going public with his ALS diagnosis. He will make his final appearance as Cal this season.<\/p>\n

With Euphoria\u2019s third season on the horizon, here\u2019s a breakdown of the latest trailer.<\/p>\n

Rue is in hot water with drug dealers \u2026 again\u00a0<\/p>\n

After getting tangled up with drug dealer Laurie (Martha Kelly), by the end of Season 2, Rue was no longer using drugs. But the trailer for the new season shows Rue even deeper into the drug game, with DEA agents interviewing her about whether she\u2019s ever been to Mexico. Cut to Rue swallowing what appear to be plastic-wrapped balls of drugs, presumably so she can take them across the border.<\/p>\n

However, there\u2019s a hint that Rue might be trying to find a way out by working with the feds \u2014 something that, no doubt, will cause major drama for Zendaya\u2019s character this season. \u201cI can tell you\u2019re a good kid in a bad situation,\u201d one of the DEA agents says as a single tear falls down Rue\u2019s cheek.<\/p>\n

Alas, it sounds like Laurie\u2019s not out of the picture either. \u201cWhat happened to you?\u201d we hear Laurie say in the trailer. \u201cAlamo tried to kill me,\u201d a beat-up-looking Rue says. \u201cAnd he\u2019s going to do the same to you.\u201d<\/p>\n

Who is Alamo? It\u2019s possible that he\u2019s the drug dealer played by Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje<\/a>, who is seen in the trailer wearing a cowboy hat and putting bullets into a gold gun.<\/p>\n

He\u2019s not the only shadowy figure to worry about. The trailer also hints at a new character, played by Darrell Britt-Gibson, who is seen wearing an American Psycho-style plastic raincoat and holding a bloody electric carving knife over a screaming, duct-taped man.<\/p>\n

Ali is back \u2014\u00a0and there\u2019s reason to worry<\/p>\n

One person who serves as a guiding light for Rue is her sponsor, Ali, played by Colman Domingo. Ali offers her some words of wisdom, and a stern warning about the path she\u2019s headed down. \u201cThe real disease is that people no longer know the difference between right and wrong,\u201d he says. \u201cYou poison kids for money \u2026 you\u2019re evil.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Colman<\/p>\n

Colman Domingo in Season 3 of Euphoria.<\/p>\n

(HBO\/Youtube)<\/p>\n

The trailer suggests that Ali may be dealing with a medical issue this season when it cuts to a shot of him receiving oxygen in a hospital bed.<\/p>\n

Cassie and Nate get married, and no one\u2019s happy<\/p>\n

Sweeney\u2019s Cassie and Elordi\u2019s Nate had the most tumultuous relationship of Season 2, as they were hooking up behind the back of Maddy (Alexa Demie), Cassie\u2019s best friend and Nate\u2019s on-again, off-again girlfriend. The trailer shows that the two aren\u2019t only still together \u2014 they\u2019re getting married. But as Nate smirks at the altar, Cassie looks miserable walking down the aisle with her mom (Alanna Ubach). So much for how she\u2019s never, ever been happier<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"Sydney<\/p>\n

Sydney Sweeney and Alanna Ubach in Season 3 of Euphoria.<\/p>\n

(HBO\/Youtube)Maddy and Cassie reconnect\u00a0<\/p>\n

The onetime besties were at each other\u2019s throats in the Season 2 finale, but they\u2019re hanging out again,\u00a0with Maddy helping Cassie shoot for her OnlyFans account. When Cassie tells Nate about her reconnecting with his ex, he says exactly what you don\u2019t want to hear from your husband: \u201cMy Maddy?\u201d<\/p>\n

Exactly what Maddy wants with Cassie is unclear, but we later see Maddy at what appears to be a strip club\u00a0with Rosal\u00eda \u2014 a newcomer to the cast, who is wearing a bejeweled neck brace in the teaser. The singer and actress was previously seen in an earlier trailer onstage dancing at a club called the Silver Slipper<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Jules and Cal meet up\u00a0<\/p>\n

The new season shows Jules (Hunter Schafer) as an art student who moonlights as a sugar baby\u00a0\u2014\u00a0a job that, seemingly, allows her to reconnect with Cal, Nate\u2019s father. In the first season of the show, Cal and Jules had sex while Jules was underage, leading to Cal\u2019s arrest at the end of Season 2. Here, though, Cal appears to be out of jail, and in seemingly good spirits. \u201cRemember me?\u201d Jules asks Cal, who is wearing a gray suit. Cal replies, \u201cHow could I forget?\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Hunter<\/p>\n

Hunter Schafer in Season 3 of Euphoria.<\/p>\n

(HBO\/Youtube)<\/p>\n

Dane returned to Euphoria shortly after announcing his ALS diagnosis in April 2025. In his statement to People<\/a>, the former Grey\u2019s Anatomy star said that he felt \u201cfortunate\u201d to return to the set.<\/p>\n

\"Eric<\/p>\n

Eric Dane in Season 3 of Euphoria.<\/p>\n

(HBO\/Youtube)Lexi is thriving<\/p>\n

Lexi (Maude Apatow) is, once again, in a vastly different TV show from her peers. She\u2019s working for a producer, played by Sharon Stone, who tells Lexi that the network really loved the storyline she pitched for the series they\u2019re working on.<\/p>\n

\"Maude<\/p>\n

Maude Apatow and Sharon Stone in Season 3 of Euphoria.<\/p>\n

(HBO\/Youtube)<\/p>\n

In the trailer, she also calls out her childhood best friend Rue for using drugs again and, in a conversation with Rue and Maddy later on, says what we\u2019re all usually thinking when we watch the Euphoria gang: \u201cWhat is wrong with you people?!\u201d<\/p>\n

Euphoria Season 3 premieres on April 12.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After a four-year wait, the third season of Euphoria is less than two weeks away. A brand-new trailer…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":374228,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[93,55712,44225,3284,61,60,2124,282],"class_list":{"0":"post-374227","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-eric-dane","10":"tag-euphoria","11":"tag-hbo","12":"tag-ie","13":"tag-ireland","14":"tag-sydney-sweeney","15":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=374227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374227\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/374228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}