{"id":776638,"date":"2026-07-21T22:09:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T22:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/776638\/"},"modified":"2026-07-21T22:09:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T22:09:09","slug":"jacob-elordi-dishes-on-nates-euphoria-demise-breaking-his-heels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/776638\/","title":{"rendered":"Jacob Elordi Dishes on Nate’s ‘Euphoria’ Demise, Breaking His Heels"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tEuphoria<\/a> changed Jacob Elordi<\/a>\u2019s life. But until last night\u2019s appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live!, the 29-year-old hadn\u2019t dished much on the impact it\u2019s had since he became an Oscar-nominated<\/a> movie star or how he felt about his character Nate\u2019s brutal death.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI don\u2019t know if I\u2019ll ever fathom the sort of size of the show and what it did for me,\u201d Elordi told guest host and fellow Euphoria cast member Colman Domingo<\/a> (fresh from starring in Steven Spielberg\u2019s Disclosure Day). \u201cI mean, we\u2019re in movies now. Like, you\u2019re leading Spielberg movies and I\u2019m working with Ridley Scott. It\u2019s crazy.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tScott\u2019s latest, The Dog Stars, is what led Elordi to the couch last night with much to discuss. Elordi, coming off a big year that saw him land an Oscar nod for Guillermo del Toro\u2019s Frankenstein followed by a starring role opposite Margot Robbie in Emerald Fennell\u2019s Wuthering Heights, returned to Euphoria only to see Nate get brutalized time and again by a loan shark and his henchmen due to a failed real estate venture. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI think Sam brought me back to torture me,\u201d Elordi quipped of creator Sam Levinson<\/a>. \u201cIt was like six weeks of me just getting beat by a seven-foot guy. I was just running the whole time.\u201d The first time viewers saw Nate suffer came on the night of his wedding to Cassie, played by Sydney Sweeney<\/a>, when he gets pummeled and has his toe cut off. <\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\tElordi\u2019s Nate wards off an attacker<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tEddy Chen\/HBO<\/p>\n

\n\tThat led to a \u201clot of people inquiring about my members,\u201d Elordi quipped of the onscreen injury which happened to coincide with an off-screen injury when he broke both of his heels. While the news had been broken by Page Six<\/a>, it was initially reported that he broke his foot, though Elordi confirmed the injury was much more serious. But he declined to say how it happened.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI broke both my heels earlier this year. Don\u2019t talk about it. It\u2019s like, it\u2019s like Fight Club. I jumped off something,\u201d he revealed of the injury which kept him<\/a> from joining the prestigious jury at the Cannes Film Festival. \u201cSo, I was in a cast and a moon boot the same time that Nate was getting his digits cut off. Everyone thought it was hilarious to be like, \u2018Oh, method acting. You did method acting.\u2019 I was like, \u2018Yeah, I cut my toe off.’\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tElordi didn\u2019t have to go method to play out Nate\u2019s demise as he was buried alive in a coffin with a special guest star. \u201cI got locked in a coffin for two days straight with prosthetics and a fake tongue, and I couldn\u2019t see out of my eyes. And then Sam put snakes into the coffin,\u201d Elordi explained, adding that his co-star was much more gentle than he expected. \u201cHe had a very nice personality. He was very docile and very sleepy. I don\u2019t think he\u2019d had a lot of sun. \u2026 I was kind of nudging him, trying to get him to get active and do the scene, because he was meant to be threatening. But he was like a little dog. He just kept curling up at my feet.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Dog Stars, which also stars Josh Brolin and Margaret Qualley, is set to be released on Aug. 28.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Euphoria changed Jacob Elordi\u2019s life. But until last night\u2019s appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live!, the 29-year-old hadn\u2019t dished…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":776639,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,450,27452,27686,451,34564,3,221688,7105,452,453],"class_list":["post-776638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-colman-domingo","tag-euphoria","tag-headlines","tag-jacob-elordi","tag-news","tag-sam-levinson","tag-sydney-sweeney","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=776638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776638\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/776639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=776638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=776638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=776638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}