Eric Dane is superb at being one of the hated characters on “Euphoria.” This season, we realized about his character Cal’s robust upbringing and having to suppress his sexuality after Marsha (Paula Marshall) — his then girlfriend, now spouse — grew to become pregnant with Aaron (Zak Steiner). In episode 4 of season two, Cal utterly spirals. Loads of it appears to stem together with his head harm after being hit by Ashtray (Jacob “Wanna” Walton) and exacerbated by alcohol. Through the episode, Cal drinks and drives his method to the homosexual bar the place he first kissed his highschool wresting buddy, Derek (Henry Eikenberry). There, he finally ends up dancing with a youthful man who he imagines is Derek and tries to wrestle him. That solely will get him kicked out of the homosexual bar and, as soon as once more, remoted from his group.
The spiral continues as he will get residence to Marsha, Aaron, and Nate (Jacob Elordi) and begins peeing within the lobby in a drunken stupor. All of them attempt to confront him, and the reality comes out. Cal is gay, he is extraordinarily lonely, he hates his son Nate probably the most, and he is completed enjoying fake as a household man. The four-page monologue is really artwork. Emmy nominations aren’t revealed till July, however Dane needs to be on the record after his efficiency. It was his finest on the collection and arguably the very best within the episode.
Talking of the scene, Dane advised “Entertainment Tonight,” “From the beginning, whipping out his penis and peeing all around the vestibule of the home, the symbolism there’s fairly robust. After which being confronted by his spouse and telling her how lonely he’s. That is a humorous manner of conveying these emotions to anyone. . . . It was solely pure that Cal determined to drop the facade and begin dwelling his reality.”
Dane continued, “I do not know if it is gonna make folks empathetic in direction of Cal. I believe it ought to. But it surely definitely exposes a aspect to Cal that you just simply in all probability did not count on however you knew was probably, possibly one of many components in finally who he ended up being.”
“Cal was very contained, very managed final season. And this yr, he will get to chop free a bit of bit. And that is enjoyable to play,” he added whereas talking to “Leisure Tonight.” The actor additionally beforehand advised POPSUGAR that enjoying an unlikeable character like Cal has been “plenty of enjoyable.” “You get to do all these actually mischievous sort of amoral, heinous [things and] discover these behaviors and never must cope with real-world penalties,” he explains of the “unhealthy man” trope. Nevertheless, he notes, Cal is “a bit of extra sophisticated than” simply being a villain. Maintain studying for standout quotes from Dane’s “Euphoria” season two, episode 4 monologue.
