Jacob Elordi Shares What Getting Naked on ‘Euphoria’ Is Really Like

Euphoria continued to embrace its reputation as an edgy, scandalous, HBO version of a teen drama in its second season, relying heavily on nudity and sex scenes to keep the conversation going. Several of its stars have spoken about the nude scenes required of them recently, and now Jacob Elordi is adding to the conversation.

Elordi, who plays Nate Jacobs, stopped by The Ellen DeGeneres Show to talk about the series, and Ellen immediately asked about the steamy scenes that litter every episode of the show.

“You’re naked a lot,” she pointed out. “How does that feel? Is that something when they write you into the script, do they say, ‘Hey, how do you feel about being naked?’ or are you just all of a sudden surprised, like, ‘Oh, I have to be naked?’”

“You have no choice,” Elordi replied. “It’s like, every scene is, he sleeps with this person, he does this with this person naked.”

He continued, suggesting that “on Euphoria, [being naked] comes with the territory of the character,” and praised the show’s intimacy coordinator, Amanda Blumenthal, for always looking out for the cast during those moments.

“And the crew has been the same for the first season through the second season, so it’s kind of like getting naked in front of your family,” he said.

“Which also is weird, just to let you know,” Ellen joked in response.

Previously, both Sydney Sweeney and Minka Kelly spoke out about pushing back on nudity for their characters in season two. In both scenarios, the actresses expressed that creator Sam Levinson respected the boundaries they set, and Sweeney similarly praised Blumenthal’s work as intimacy coordinator.

“I’m really lucky because all my cast mates are so kind,” she told ELLE Australia. “It’s a very safe and incredible environment to do such scenes in and having the intimacy coordinator adds another level of ‘I feel okay, I feel safe and this is for my character.’”