Time Jump “Euphoria”: What are Rue, Cassie, Nate and the group doing now

• Zendaya Street

  

  After leaving the fictional Eastern Highlands of Southern California, Rue works at a local smoke shop until former drug kingpin Laurie comes to remind her of her debts from high school. Rowe never paid Lori the $10,000 she was owed, and that amount has now grown to more than $43 million, 46 months later at a 20 percent interest rate. “I’ll take $100,000, but I bet you don’t have that either,” Laurie says. This huge debt turns Rue into a major drug trafficker for Laurie, and the premiere shows Rue’s body packing her bags from Mexico, along with Faye (Chloe Cherry), swallowing fentanyl balloons to drive her across the border (and then graphically releasing them).

  Rue meets NA pastor Ali Muhammad (Colman Domingo) in the premiere and talks through her recovery and the 12-step program, stumbling through the faith required of her for Step 3. Ali pushes her to open her mind to believe in a power greater than herself, and to find her faith. Ru also works as an Uber driver, and begins listening to the Bible during her trips. “I choose to believe,” she told him.

  Then she receives a huge signal from above when she is saved from a bullet. After unwittingly bringing fentanyl-laced drugs to the home of new rival Alamo (Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje), one of the guests overdoses and dies. Alamo tests her to see if she has set her up with Lori by shooting an apple from the top of her head. When Rue realized the bullet had missed her, she laughed with joy at having survived another day. “Straight Addict” sums up Ali’s right-hand man.

• Fizco (Late Angus Cloud)

  

  Angus Cloud died of an accidental overdose in July 2023 after Season 2, which ended on a cliffhanger for his character, Fizco, when the fan-favorite drug dealer’s home was raided. A SWAT raid tragically captured his brother Ashtray (played by Javon Walton), but Levinson was planning to keep Vizco in season three in a major role. Cloud’s tragic death sparked a rewrite of the series, and Levinson kept the character alive in the series, while also nodding to his death in the premiere.

  The first episode ended with a girl overdosing on the fentanyl-laced drug that Ru brought to the new drug kingpin’s Alamo house party. “I was really angry about fentanyl because in 2023, the year Angus died, 73,000 Americans died from fentanyl overdoses,” Levinson said. THR. “I could not understand what had happened in our country that we allowed so many people to be poisoned.”

  After Vizco’s house was violently raided at the end of Season 2, Rue revealed in the premiere that he had gone to prison. In a touching scene between Rue and Lexie (Maude Apatow), the latter of whom sparked a romance with Vizco in Season 2, Rue reveals that Vizco has now been in prison for 30 years. She urges her friend to call him. “He misses you,” says Rowe. “Did he say that?” Ask Lexi, who was reluctant to reach out. “Several times,” Roo answers.

  After the raid on Vizco’s house, Lori leaves East Highland and begins working with her cousin and his son, which is where Season 3 meets Roo. “I’m not saying they’re innate, but I have my doubts,” Rowe says of her boss.

• Lexi (Maude Apatow)

  

  Lexi now works “7 days a week” in Hollywood on a nightly soap opera, introducing Sharon Stone to the cast as her boss, an industry legend named Patty Lance who decorates her office with photos from events with the likes of Presidents Barack Obama and Donald Trump, and Anderson Cooper. Lexi meets her high school friend Maddie (Alexa Demi) on the sets of Los Angeles, where the latter is now working side-by-side in talent management. Lexi is single and seems to have moved on from her high school crush on Fez – in the season 2 finale, Fez missed her play because he was led away in handcuffs after a SWAT raid. Now she’s swooning after one of Maddie’s clients, Dylan Reed (played by Homer Gere), and Rue highlights how different Lexie’s liberal life is from that of her sister Cassie (Sydney Sweeney), who Rue says lives in a “right-wing suburban bubble.”

• Cassie (Sydney Sweeney) and Nate (Jacob Elordi)

  

  Not only are the troubled high school couple still together, they’re heading down the aisle. Cassie (Sydney Sweeney) now lives in an upscale suburban home where Nate (Jacob Elordi) drives a Tesla Cybertruck and takes over his father’s (Eric Dane) real estate development business, and is determined to plan the wedding of her dreams and has big aspirations for how he can help contribute to her finances while working. Re-introduce Cassie to trance She saw her barely dressed as a dog, causing her housekeeper to film her crawling on all fours for TikTok content. She then sat down with Nate to tell him that she wanted to level up her content by joining OnlyFans and making quick cash. “Do you want to sell your body for flower arrangements?” He asks. “I will if I have to,” she says. Cassie ends up manipulating her fiancé into agreeing on one condition: “You promised me you wouldn’t show that and your pretty face at the same time,” he tells her as she opens her shirt.

  

• Maddie (Alexa Demi)

  

  Maddie (Alexa Demie) works in talent management, where she represents influencers and “a few actors,” including “LA Nights” franchise darling Lexie’s new crush. Rowe says Maddie’s job of going to red carpet events seemed more glamorous than it was, as she was drawing huge checks for her boss after spending long nights with clients. “Good money…if you’re a material boss,” Rowe says.

• Jules (Hunter Schaeffer)

  

  We didn’t see Rue’s ex Jules (Hunter Schafer) in the premiere but Lexi, his source Maddie, told us that Jules is now a sugar baby. “Bitch,” Maddie says. When Lexi protested that there was a difference because sugar babies didn’t have to have sex, Ma responded Dee: “That’s like hiring a chef who doesn’t cook.” Viewers last saw Rue and Jules when Rue was walking away from their relationship during Lexie’s play at the end of Season 2, and Levinson revealed that in Season 3, viewers will see Jules at art school “very nervous about having a career as an artist and trying to avoid responsibility at all costs.”

• Cal Jacobs (late Eric Dane)

  

  Cal Jacobs (Eric Dane) has yet to appear, but was mentioned in the premiere with his son Nate taking over his business. Dane died on February 19 due to complications from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Before his death, he filmed scenes for the third season in his final role, although it has not been announced how many scenes he will appear in.

  Levinson said Dane called him before they started filming to tell him about his diagnosis, which Dane publicly announced in April 2025. “I just said, ‘Look Eric, I love you and I promise no matter what you show up, we’re going to make it work, we’re going to find a way,'” Levinson said. We just tried to create the most comfortable environment and it’s great in this season THR. added to additional. “He showed up and I could tell he had a slight distortion in his voice and he told me that. I said, ‘Don’t worry.’ We’ll just put five beers in front of you and you drink all night long. “He was like, ‘Perfect, perfect.’ And his personality was such a gift.”

  Dane’s Cal appeared in the season 3 trailer, teasing a reunion between Nate’s father and Jules, with whom he had an affair when she was in high school.

  The premiere opened with a title card dedicated to Dane. The premiere is also a tribute to Cloud and former executive producer Kevin Turen, who died in 2023.

  “I wanted to tell a story about the step of surrendering our will and our lives to the care of God as we understand Him,” Levinson said. THR From the third season. “These characters who are now adults have the freedom to choose what kind of lives they want to live, but there are consequences that come with those actions. Look at that long period of time.” [between seasons]“With all its tragedies and everything, it’s a blessing.”

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