{"id":300460,"date":"2026-02-20T05:26:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T05:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/300460\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T05:26:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T05:26:09","slug":"euphoria-creator-sam-levinson-remembers-eric-dane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/300460\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Euphoria’ Creator Sam Levinson Remembers Eric Dane"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\t\u201cEuphoria<\/a>\u201d creator Sam Levinson is paying tribute to Eric Dane<\/a>, who played Cal Jacobs on the HBO Max show. Dane died Thursday<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI\u2019m heartbroken by the loss of our dear friend Eric. Working with him was an honor. Being his friend was a gift. Eric\u2019s family is in our prayers. May his memory be for a blessing,\u201d Levinson said in a statement to Variety.<\/p>\n

\n\tDane went public with his ALS diagnosis just last year.<\/p>\n

\n\tHBOMax said on Instagram, \u201cWe are deeply saddened by the news of Eric Dane\u2019s passing. He was incredibly talented and HBO was fortunate to have worked with him on three seasons of Euphoria. Our thoughts are with his loved ones during this difficult time.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tDane told Variety<\/a> last year, \u201cI\u2019ve always had a profound respect for the craft of acting, but I never considered myself an artist. I could never admit it, until I started making \u2018Euphoria.\u2019 That\u2019s when I gave myself the allowance to feel like I was an artist.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tAbout working with Levinson, Dane said, \u201cI just have so much trust in Sam Levinson that I don\u2019t really need to know what\u2019s happening. On the day, he can just tell me what to do and where to go, and I\u2019m good with it.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tKnown for his role as \u201cMcSteamy\u201d on \u201cGrey\u2019s Anatomy,\u201d Dane went on to play the complicated father of Jacob Elordi\u2019s character on \u201cEuphoria.\u201d Over the years, the California native also appeared on \u201cGideon\u2019s Crossing,\u201d \u201cCharmed\u201d and \u201cThe Last Ship\u201d and in films including \u201cMarley and Me,\u201d \u201cValentine\u2019s Day\u201d and \u201cX-Men: The Last Stand.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tLast year, he also appeared on Amazon Prime\u2019s \u201cCountdown\u201d as a special agent.<\/p>\n

\n\tDane advocated for support for ALS through I Am ALS and told the Washington Post, \u201cNot to be overly morbid,\u201d he said. \u201cbut you know, if I\u2019m going out, I\u2019m gonna go out helping somebody.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cEuphoria\u201d creator Sam Levinson is paying tribute to Eric Dane, who played Cal Jacobs on the HBO Max…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":300461,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[146,56441,56442,85,46],"class_list":["post-300460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-eric-dane","tag-euphoria","tag-il","tag-israel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=300460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300460\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/300461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}