{"id":581185,"date":"2026-04-13T07:13:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T07:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/581185\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T07:13:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T07:13:09","slug":"fezs-fate-revealed-premiere-pays-tribute-to-trio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/581185\/","title":{"rendered":"Fez’s Fate Revealed; Premiere Pays Tribute To Trio"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tThe long-awaited third season of Sam Levinson<\/a>\u2018s Euphoria<\/a> opened on a solemn note as an in memoriam card flashed on screen dedicated to late star Eric Dane<\/a>. The remembrance, which featured the Grey\u2019s Anatomy alum\u2019s picture and his birth dates, is similar to the one HBO<\/a> Max previously posted for late actor Angus Cloud<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\tAt the end of the premiere episode<\/a>, just after the credits, were dedicated tributes to Dane, Cloud and producer Kevin Turen<\/a>. (See images below.)<\/p>\n

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\n\tIn presenting the first episode of the season at the TCL Chinese Theatre last week, the creator commemorated \u201cthose who we lost.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cSome people ask why it took so long between seasons two and three,\u201d he said. \u201cThere were obvious factors \u2014 the strikes, trying to make a schedule work with our very in-demand cast, but the real time was in trying to figure out how to find a way to pay respect to those who we lost.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tCloud, who portrayed Fezco in the first two seasons of\u00a0Euphoria,\u00a0died in 2023<\/a>\u00a0from \u201cacute intoxication\u201d at the age of 25 in Oakland, Calif. Turen unexpectedly died a month afterward<\/a>, at the age of 44. Dane was able to reprise his role in the third season of the HBO drama before his death in February; the actor\u00a0died of of respiratory failure<\/a>\u00a0with ALS as a contributing cause.<\/p>\n

\n\tWhile Cal (Dane), Nate\u2019s (Jacob Elordi) father, doesn\u2019t appear in the season premiere, he will be featured later on. Though it\u2019s unclear how the show will address the character\u2019s departure, Levinson told Extra that he adjusted his writing<\/a> in real time to factor in Dane\u2019s health. \u201cHe showed up and I could tell he had a slight slur in his voice and he told me that. I said, \u2018Don\u2019t worry. We\u2019ll just put, like, five beer bottles in front of you and you\u2019ve been drinking all night.\u2019 He was like, \u2018Perfect, perfect.\u2019 And his character, it was such a gift.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tContrastingly, Season 3 includes a scene in which Rue (Zendaya) visits her erstwhile high school friend Lexi (Maude Apatow) in Los Angeles, where she now works as an assistant to a famed TV executive (Sharon Stone); while there, she urges Lexi to call Fez, with whom it seemed she would embark on a romance last season. In the show\u2019s canon, Fez is serving 30 years in prison but still misses Lexi, despite not having been in contact for years.<\/p>\n

\n\tOf the decision to conclude Fez\u2019s journey that way, Levinson told Entertainment Weekly:<\/a> \u201cI fought very hard to keep him clean when he was alive, and losing him was really tough,\u201d adding, \u201cI felt like if I couldn\u2019t keep him alive in life, then, I could in the show.\u201d<\/p>\n