âEuphoriaâ fans have been waiting years and now their prayers have been answered: Season 3 is set to hit HBO in April.
The new episodes will arrive more than four years after the Season 2 finale. (Just think: in the wait between seasons, you could have enrolled and graduated from âEuphoriaâ High.)
Sam Levinsonâs teen drama returns with a sprawling cast of familiar faces and newcomers. Most of the original cast of now-A-listers are back, including Zendaya, Hunter Schafer, Eric Dane, Jacob Elordi, Sydney Sweeney and Colman Domingo. Also returning are Alexa Demie, Maude Apatow, Martha Kelly, Chloe Cherry, Dominic Fike and Nika King, as well as Alanna Ubach, Daeg Faerch, Melvin Bonez Estes, Paula Marshall, Sophia Rose Wilson and Zak Steiner.
Levinson was on hand at an HBO Max presentation in London on Wednesday to share a sneak peak of the explosive Season 3, revealing where some of the key characters have ended up four years on. âFive years felt like a natural place because if theyâd gone to college theyâd be out of college at that time,â he explained of where the show picks up. âWe basically pick up Rue [Zendaya] south of the border in Mexico, in debt to Laurie [Kelly], trying to come up with some very innovative ways to pay it off.â
âAnd then Cassie [Sweeney] is living in the suburbs with Nate [Elordi], theyâre engaged and sheâs very addicted to social media and envious of what appears to be the big lives that all of her high school classmates are living at this point in time.â
He promised: âI feel strongly this is our best season yet⊠I will say that Cassie and Nate do in fact get married. Iâm confirming it. And I promise that it will be an unforgettable night.â
Levinson also shared that âJules [Schafer] is in art school, very nervous about having a career as a painter and trying to avoid responsibility at all costs. Maddy [Demie] is working in Hollywood at a talent agency for a manager, sheâs obviously got her own side hustles going. And Lexi [Apatow] is an assistant to a showrunner played by Sharon Stone, who is just absolutely delightful and a true icon.â
Joining Stone in âEuphoriaâ for the first time are RosalĂa, Trisha Paytas, Natasha Lyonne, Danielle Deadwyler, Eli Roth and Marshawn Lynch. Plus: Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Toby Wallace, Darrell Britt-Gibson, Kadeem Hardison, Priscilla Delgado, James Landry HĂ©bert, Anna Van Patten, Asante Blackk, Bella Podaras, Bill Bodner, Cailyn Rice, Colleen Camp, Gideon Adlon, Hemky Madera, Homer Gere, Jack Topalian, Jessica Blair Herman, Kwame Patterson, Madison Thompson, Matthew Willig, Rebecca Pidgeon and Sam Trammell.
Austin Abrams and Algee Smith were left off HBOâs cast list, as well as Storm Reid, who said in November that her character, Rueâs sister Gia, would be absent from Season 3. Barbie Ferreira, who played Kat, exited the series in August 2022, and Angus Cloud, who played Fezco, died at age 25 in July 2023.
âEuphoriaâ follows a group of teenagers navigating an intense world of drug addiction, sex, crime and betrayal. âEuphoriaâ became a phenomenon, launching the careers of many of its young stars and becoming HBOâs most-watched series that does not involve dragons or zombies (the cablerâs fourth most-popular show overall).
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