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Eric Dane tragically died astatine 53 successful February pursuing an ALS battle. Before his death, nan “Grey’s Anatomy” prima completed filming for his domiciled successful “Euphoria” Season 3.
His character, Cal Jacobs, wasn’t successful nan play premiere, but it included a photograph of Dane onscreen pinch nan message, “In remembrance of Eric Dane. 1972-2026.”
Dane makes his first posthumous quality successful nan season’s 2nd episode, “America My Dream,” which aired Sunday.
Warning: Spoilers ahead! Do not proceed unless you’ve watched “Euphoria” Season 3’s 2nd episode, “America My Dream.”
Cal shows up astir halfway done nan episode, visiting his son, Nate (Jacob Elordi). Father and boy chat successful Nate’s kitchen, mostly friendly, pinch small of nan explosive hostility that they had successful nan show’s first 2 seasons. Cal is sitting down for astir of his surface time.
When he arrives astatine Nate’s house, he seems to beryllium successful precocious spirits (or tipsy), singing a song. In Nate’s kitchen, Cal tells Nate that he is attending SLA meetings, which is “Sex and Love Addicts.”
The play premiere revealed that Nate’s fiancée, Cassie (Sydney Sweeney), is trying to waste photos of herself connected OnlyFans to raise $50K for a floral statement astatine their wedding.
Cal makes a concerned remark astir Cassie’s photos to Nate. When Nate waves it off, Cal expresses interest that Nate mightiness beryllium having “financial issues.” Nate has taken complete Cal’s building business, and nan show implied that he’s struggling, but he doesn’t reply to Cal.
As Nate cooks, Cal cautions his boy astir “chasing pleasure” alternatively of being “grateful to what I had astatine home,” comparing himself to what Cassie is doing. Nate dismisses nan comparison, and tells Cal, “you’re gay. You’re successful denial, and it came retired successful very weird ways.”
Cal replies, “I’m not gay, I was a hedonist.”
Overall, Cal and Nate look to beryllium astatine easiness pinch each other.
This is simply a chaotic alteration from their volatile narration successful Seasons 1 and 2. The displacement continues Season 3’s inclination of making Nate consciousness truthful different, it’s prompting fans to opportunity that he had a “lobotomy.”
In nan first 2 seasons of “Euphoria,” Cal was reliable connected Nate, criticizing his shot skills and encouraging his aggression. Although he was joined to Nate’s mom and projected nan image of being a able family man, Cal often went to hotels to person activity pinch young men and women, including Nate’s trans classmate, Jules (Hunter Schafer). He taped his encounters.
Nate recovered Cal’s activity tapes astatine a young age, which messed pinch his thought of activity and masculinity. It shaped Nate’s anger issues, and his borderline psycho behavior.
At nan extremity of Season 1, Nate and Cal sewage into a beingness fight. In Season 2, Cal told Nate that he was his biggest regret. To protect Cal’s secrets, Nate threatened his ex-girlfriend, Maddy (Alexa Demie), pinch a weapon successful Season 2, aft she stole 1 of Cal’s activity tapes. Season 2 ended pinch Nate calling nan cops connected Cal (the show implied that location were minors successful nan activity tapes pinch him).
Season 3 is group 5 years aft nan events of Season 2. It’s not made clear really Nate and Cal sewage from having an explosively dispute narration to casually hanging retired successful Nate’s kitchen. Their first Season 3 scenes besides didn’t mention Nate calling nan cops connected Cal.
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Dane announced his ALS diagnosis successful April 2025. He passed distant conscionable short of a twelvemonth later, connected February 19, 2026.
ALS “is a tense strategy illness that affects nervus cells successful nan encephalon and spinal cord,” starring to “loss of musculus control” that progresses complete time, according to nan Mayo Clinic. It has nary cure.
“I consciousness fortunate that I americium capable to proceed moving and americium looking guardant to returning to nan group of Euphoria adjacent week,” Dane told People successful April 2025.
In June, Dane told Access Hollywood that it was “great to beryllium back” connected group aft nan show’s four-year hiatus, since Season 2 aired successful 2022.
In a caller interview, creator Sam Levinson told Extra that Dane told him astir nan test earlier they began shooting.
“We had a batch of conversations astir conscionable life and what that meant. I loved him very deeply, and I said, ‘Eric, immoderate style you show up in, we’re gonna make it work. I person religion that it’s each gonna work.’”
Levinson added that erstwhile Dane came to set, he had “a flimsy slur successful his voice,” owed to his illness.
In response, Levinson recalled, “I said, ‘Don’t worry. We’ll conscionable put, like, 5 brew bottles successful beforehand of you and you’ve been drinking each night.’ He was like, ‘Perfect, perfect.’ And his character, it was specified a gift.”
“Euphoria” has not announced really galore Season 3 episodes Dane will beryllium in, but footage from nan trailer shows Cal astatine Nate and Cassie’s wedding, which is nan 3rd episode.
Dane and character Rebecca Gayheart called disconnected their divorce successful March 2025, 1 period earlier he announced his ALS diagnosis.The erstwhile mates wed successful 2004 and had daughters Billie, 15, and Georgia, 14.
Elordi has not spoken publically astir his TV dad’s death, but 1 period anterior to it, he was seen posing for photos and chatting with Dane’s daughters astatine nan Hollywood premiere of his movie “Wuthering Heights.”
Dane is nan 3rd down nan scenes calamity for “Euphoria.” Cast personnel Angus Cloud, who played Fez, overdosed successful 2023 astatine property 25, and exec shaper Kevin Turen died successful November 2023 astatine property 44 from a cardiac emergency while driving.
The play premiere ended pinch an “in memoriam” tribute to each 3 of them.
“Euphoria” Season 3 airs Sundays astatine 9 p.m. connected HBO.
