How Did Nate Jacobs Die on Euphoria? Jacob Elordi’s Exit Explained

Euphoria surprised viewers by killing off Nate Jacobs — but how did Jacob Elordi‘s character die on screen?

Season 3 of the hit HBO show followed Nate as he struggled with the debt he owed to an Armenian mobster. He had several body parts chopped off while trying to search out the cash to clear up his issues. Nate even got his wife, Cassie (Sydney Sweeney), involved and he or she began to earn cash on OnlyFans to support him.

In the course of the Sunday, May 24, episode of Euphoria, Cassie was told she had 72 hours to get $1 million to save lots of Nate. Viewers saw that he was trapped in a box underground and would soon die from dehydration. While Cassie was trying to search out the cash to free Nate, a snake entered his box and appeared to attack him.

Later within the episode, Cassie — with help from Maddy (Alexa Demie) and Alamo (Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje) arrived to save lots of Nate. The one problem? He was already dead after several fatal bites from the rattlesnake.

“That was a cool strategy to go. Nate was someone who has made so many mistakes and made so many dark selections,” Elordi explained in a segment that aired after the Sunday, May 24, episode. “It’s cool to see all of it come to what it’s come to.”

Elordi recalled having to film in a coffin, adding, “My shoulders were touching the side and so they couldn’t move my arms. Then they might drill the lid on it and it could get dark. 
It was very nice, actually. It was quite peaceful in there.”

The stunt team, meanwhile, stressed how essential it was to ensure that the actor had oxygen. They praised Elordi for agreeing to spend “minimal time within the coffin.” Viewers could also be surprised, nevertheless, to search out out that creator Sam Levinson “desired to shoot it with an actual snake” so a rattlesnake and a boa constrictor were each featured on screen.

“Snakes were rattling, which was really alarming when you’re locked in a box,” Elordi noted. “That they had a boa constrictor that they put a fake rattler on the tip of it.”

He continued: “He was super cute. He was really cuddly. So he sort of just sidled up next to me and it was nice. But he was really sleepy. He was a sleepy snake. I needed to sort of nudge him to get him to come back up. And that was it.”

At the tip of the segment, Elordi reflected on his time playing Nate.

“It’s a bittersweet thing,” he said. “This show is a large a part of — not only my profession — but my life. It’s been amazing and I’m so pleased with being a component of this.”

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Elordi has played Nate for the reason that show premiered in 2019. Before the show returned, Elordi teased how viewers would meet Nate again within the third and sure final season.

“I finished filming a brand new season only recently, and it’s a totally different thing,” he shared on a December 2025 episode of Variety’s Actors on Actors interview. “I actually do think [he will be nicer].”

Elordi continued: “Whether it really works or not — I don’t know. There’s a probability that what I’ve done will not be good.”